News for January 10, 2025

Warnings and emergency alerts escalated quickly as the Los Angeles fire crisis grew, while Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles Fire Department faced questions about whether the city was prepared.

The United States raised the reward for information leading to Nicolás Maduro’s arrest or conviction to $25 million, citing drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges.

An NBC News investigation found that in Chicago, less than 4% of reported rape, sexual assault, and child sex abuse cases end in conviction, showing how rarely sex crime cases lead to justice.

Franklin Tao is suing the University of Kansas, saying it wrongly fired him and helped fuel a false spying case against him.

Gravy Analytics, a company that sells location data on Americans, appears to have been hacked, and the breach may involve a large trove of sensitive data.

Luma Energy said Puerto Rico’s New Year’s Eve islandwide blackout was caused by an old underground cable, highlighting how the territory’s fragile power grid is still struggling to recover.

Israel’s war with Hamas has driven Gaza’s death toll above 46,000, while ceasefire talks continue and some people hope Donald Trump may help push a deal forward.