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The state firefighting authority CAL FIRE is reporting some progress in containing at least two of the major fires burning in Los Angeles County. The two largest blazes have consumed nearly 31,000 acres, and at least 10 deaths have been confirmed. NPR's Liz Baker reports that much of the region remains in critical fire danger through Friday. The Kenneth Fire spread rapidly right at the end of a day that saw a slight lull in the ferocious Santa Ana winds that have had Los Angeles on edge since Tuesday morning. Contributing to the collective frayed nerves, an evacuation push notification erroneously sent to cell phones countywide. Still, reduced winds gave firefighters a small

advantage Thursday, stopping the forward progress on the Kenneth and other fires and allowing some evacuation orders to lift, including in Sylmar and the Hollywood Hills. Cal Fire also reported some containment on the deadly Palisades fire, which has been raging for three days through communities on the coast. Liz Baker and PR News, Los Angeles. President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced today for his conviction of falsifying business records in 2016, allegedly to hide a past intramarital affair. New York Judge Juan Marchand refused to delay the sentencing, but has indicated he will

not pose jail time. Meanwhile, Trump has reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to delay today's proceeding. Well, they called for an appeal, and as you know, they acknowledged what the judge said about no penalty, and there is no penalty. But we're going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly, it's a disgrace. Speaking at a transition dinner in Washington Thursday, Trump maintained that he did nothing wrong. Former President Jimmy Carter has been laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia,

following a funeral in Washington. Carter was buried next to his wife, Rosalynn. Pope Francis has identified as intensified his criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza. The pontiff calls the humanitarian situation there shameful. More from NPR's Ruth Sherlock in Rome. In his yearly gathering with diplomats, Pope Francis asked an aide to read his speech because he's recovering from a cold. The address focused on the pope's hopes that this will be the year that sees an end to the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza. He called the humanitarian situation in Gaza very serious and shameful, and elsewhere in his speech he wrote, we cannot accept that children are freezing to death

or the bombing of civilians. Every night the Pope speaks by phone with parishioners in Gaza. In recent months, Pope Francis has been more outspoken about Israel's military campaign against Hamas there and said jurists and international experts should investigate whether Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide. The Israeli government responded angrily, saying the pontiff had ignored the wider context of the war and Israel's security concerns. Ruth Sherlock reporting from Rome. This is NPR. The Supreme Court today hears arguments on whether to delay a government ban on the video-sharing site TikTok. The ban was approved by Congress a year ago and is set to take effect on January 19th, a day before President-elect Trump is inaugurated.

During his first term, Trump issued an executive order requiring TikTok to divest from its China-based parent bite dance or be banned in the U.S. He's now asking the high court to delay its ruling. There are more than 18 million cancer survivors in the United States, and many of them face sexual side effects from treatment. But their concerns often go unaddressed by the medical community, as NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports. University of Tennessee Professor Janine Anderson says as many as 80 percent of cancer survivors will struggle with side effects from treatment that affect their ability to be physically intimate.

Sexual health is one of the greatest unmet needs among survivors. Dating and relationships and sex and sexuality have been ignored. Anderson says there are also related issues people crave answers to, like... When do I disclose I'm a cancer survivor? When do I share my body? When do I share my scars? Often, patients internalize these struggles, she says, or turn to other survivors for advice. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News. The NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings has been moved from Southern California because of the wildfire emergency.

The wild card game will be played some 400 miles away in Glendale, Arizona on Monday night. This is NPR News. After the election, the economy feels like one big, huh? Monday night. This is NPR News.