A New Year's party at a Swiss Alpine bar turned into a tragedy after about 40 people died in a fire and another roughly 115 were injured, many in their teens to mid-20s.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith spoke with lawmakers behind closed doors in December. That testimony is now public.

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Andrew Limbong and BA Parker from the Books We Love podcast are revisiting Terry McMillan's classic, Waiting to Exhale.

New York City has a new mayor. Zohran Mamdani is the city's first Muslim mayor and a democratic socialist.

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