🗞️Carter's National Funeral And L.A. Wildfire Damage

January 9th, 2025

Good Evening 🇺🇸,

What happened today,

• Jimmy Carter’s national funeral service was held today at the Washington National Cathedral, all five living presidents (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden) were in attendance

• The L.A. deadly wildfires continued today, leaving at least six people dead, over 1,000 structures destroyed and around 360,000 people were forced to evacuate the area

• AccuWeather’s primary estimates say that the cost of damage from the L.A. wildfires could range from $52 to $57 billion

• Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget seven months before the deadly fires began

• President Biden has said that the federal government will cover 100% of the initial disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires for 180 days

• The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Trump's attempt to halt tomorrow’s sentencing in the NY hush money case

• Mortgage rates increased for the fourth straight week, an average rate for a 30-year fixed rate loan now sits at 6.93%

• The stock market was closed today in honor of Jimmy Cater’s national day of mourning

• Lebanon’s Parliament has elected Joseph Aoun, a U.S. backed army commander, as President ending more than two years without one

• Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, has been detained in Caracas after joining a protest against President Nicolas Maduro

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