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This is Eric Glass. In this American life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens. If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me? Like this car dealership trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well. I just don't want one balloon to a car. Balloon the whole freaking place so it looks like I'm circus.

Real life stories every week. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced for 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York. NPR's Hima Nabustia reports Trump does not face prison time, fines or other penalties. New York Judge Juan Marchand today announced his decision in a Manhattan courtroom. This court has determined that the only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction without encroaching upon the highest office in the land is an unconditional discharge. With Trump about to assume the highest office of political power, Marchand and

prosecutors agreed the sentence imposing the least disruption was unconditional discharge. Still, the criminal conviction remains on Trump's record. Trump and his lawyers, several of which are tapped into positions in his administration, have vowed to appeal the conviction. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, New York. A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfews in effect in mandatory fire evacuation zones of Southern California where at least 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna warned of

swift punishment for violators. I've given direction that if somebody's caught doing this they are not going to get cited and released they're gonna get booked. We are not screwing around with this. We don't want anyone taking advantage of our residents that have already been victimized. The two most destructive fires are the Palisades and Eaton fires. The state's insurance commissioner has announced homeowner protections from non-renewals and cancellations by insurance companies for one year under a moratorium law. This also covers owners whose homes were spared from damage. The Biden administration is granting an 18-month extension to many Salvadorans legally residing in the U.S. under temporary protected status, a decision affecting about

234,000 out of roughly 900,000 people under TPS protection. President-elect Trump takes office in 10 days, and he has repeatedly announced plans to order mass deportations and slash the TPS program The US has announced an increase in the bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Venezuela's authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro On the day he's been sworn in for a third term Maduro has been widely accused of rigging Venezuela's latest election Manuel Rueda has a story Venezuela's latest election, Manuel Rueda has a story. Maduro struck a defiant tone after he received his presidential sash, saying he had defeated efforts by the United States to oust him. The people of Venezuela have defeated imperialism and its diplomacy of deceit, he said.

Maduro claims he won Venezuela's latest election with 51% of the vote, but his government never published any evidence of the vote count. Hundreds of people have been arrested in protest against Maduro's reelection, including opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was detained briefly on Thursday. You're listening to NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether the federal government can ban TikTok if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, refuses to sell. The Biden administration argues that the information the popular video sharing app collects on

users could be manipulated by the Chinese government. TikTok could have anywhere from 120 million to 170 million users in the US alone. The platform could be banned in the US as of January 19, the eve of President-elect Trump's inauguration. Trump has said he wants to save TikTok. He has nearly 15 million followers on the platform. US employers added more than a quarter million jobs last month, and PR Scott Horsley reports that significantly more than a quarter million jobs last month and PR Scott Horsley reports that significantly more than forecasters had projected. A new report card from the Labor Department shows employers added 256,000 jobs in December

while the unemployment rate inched down to 4.1 percent. Restaurants and retailers both added jobs last month, along with health care and government. Construction companies added 8,000 jobs, while manufacturers trimmed 13,000. The report shows the U.S. job market is generally holding up well, although employers aren't having to work quite as hard to find new employees. Average wages in December were up 3.9 percent from a year ago. That's a smaller annual increase than the previous month, although still probably more than enough to outpace inflation. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. All major market indices are down roughly one and a half percent. The Dow has fallen

633 points. It's at 42,006. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. Matt Wilson spent years doing rounds at children's hospitals in New York City. I had a clip-on tie. I wore Heelys, size 11. Matt was a medical clown. The whole of a medical clown is to reintroduce the sense of play and joy and hope and light into a space that doesn't normally inhabit.

Ideas about navigating uncertainty. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.