World & Nation
Meadows was one of 19 people indicted in Georgia, accused of participating in a scheme to keep then-president Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
2020 campaign aide Michael Roman joins the ex-chief of staff in pleading innocent to nine felonies for their roles in efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
Entertainment & Arts
At the Golden Globes, ‘Anora’ star Mark Eydelshteyn recounts receiving an unsolicited phone number written in lipstick.
In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation.
California
Mark Murphy, three-time mayor of Orange, has died. Nicknamed “Mr. Orange,” Murphy was among the city’s fiercest boosters.
Conan O’Brien is the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy, honored ‘not for humor, but for [his] work as a riverboat pilot.’
First called the Santa Claus Lane Parade, the event has been held every year except 1942 through 1944 during World War II and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 200 men, some from the neighboring Twin Towers lockup, attended this year’s Christmas Mass at Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A., celebrated by Archbishop José Gomez.
The 136th Rose Parade kicked off at 8 a.m. PST on New Year’s Day and rolled along 5.5 miles of Pasadena streets before a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
Next year’s events that are visible to Californians include a rare peek at Mercury; Venus and Jupiter cozying up; and a total lunar eclipse.