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Better and less expensive. Follow coverage of a changing country. Promises made, promises kept. We're going to keep our promises. On Consider This, the afternoon news podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Los Angeles Fire Examiner says that at least 10 people have been killed in the fire storm that is engulfing parts of the L.A. region.

More than 10,000 structures are lost or damaged. Winds slowed last night, but they got stronger today, and they are expected through the rest of the morning. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says new blazes are popping up quickly. There is a new fire unfortunately in West Hills pushing into Ventura County and we are expecting this fire to rapidly spread due to high winds. That blaze has been named the Kenneth Fire. The Kenneth Fire started yesterday afternoon. It has already burned nearly a thousand acres, although it's more than one-third contained. LA police are questioning

a person to see if they have anything to do with how the Kenneth Fire got started. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Trump's efforts to block his criminal sentencing today in his New York hush money trial. In a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court says Trump will still be able to appeal. NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports Trump was convicted in Manhattan last May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump will take a brief break from preparing to return to the White House to receive his criminal sentence just 10 days before he's sworn in for his second term. Trump has tried to stop it and warned any criminal sentence could interfere with his ability to govern. In the court order scheduling the hearing, New York Judge Juan Marchand said he was not

considering a prison sentence and instead believed the most viable option would be an unconditional discharge, which means Trump faces no fines or penalties, but does get a criminal record. Jimena Bustillo, NPR News, New York. Lawyers for the video sharing app TikTok are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court today. TikTok wants the justices to block a federal law that will ban the app. The ban takes effect this month unless TikTok is sold by its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. The Justice Department says China can covertly manipulate TikTok users. Former President Jimmy Carter has been laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, and Pierre's Debbie Elliott reports people lined the streets of Plains to bid him farewell.

Ceremonies in Plains included a funeral procession through town and a US Navy flyover in the missing man formation veteran Bob Branham of Florence Alabama was among the mourners who came to pay respects he was an inspiration for anyone who who thought that it was it was good to have character and it was good to have integrity. I feel like I'm honored to be here to just spend a few minutes. Branham says Carter was the first president he voted for. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Plains, Georgia.

You're listening to NPR. There is a massive winter storm pummeling parts of the south, central and mid-Atlantic. NPR News, Plains, Georgia. You're listening to NPR. There is a massive winter storm pummeling parts of the south, central and mid-Atlantic. Winter storm warnings are posted from the Texas Panhandle to the Atlantic coast of Virginia. Areas around Memphis, Tennessee could get up to eight inches of snow. A federal appeals court has delayed a U.S. military court hearing set for today in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It would have allowed the alleged mastermind of the 9-11 terror attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty. NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer reports the federal court will now consider whether to block the guilty plea entirely.

This legal drama began last summer when Mohammed and two of his co-defendants agreed to plead guilty and return for up to life in prison rather than face a death penalty trial. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rescinded those plea deals two days later, saying he was caught off guard. Two military courts then ruled Austin cannot retroactively cancel the deals, but Austin kept pushing and asked the Justice Department to request that a federal court intervene. This time Austin got a partial win.

This week's plea hearing has been canceled, so the federal court has more time to deliberate whether the plea deals can be reversed. Sasha Pfeiffer, NPR News. The Labor Department will release its latest reports on the nation's job numbers today. Forecasters expect that hiring was slower at the end of last year, but still steady. They expect that employers added about 150,000 jobs in December. That number is similar to hiring numbers that have been reported in the past six months. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.