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What’s Trending? • The Tsunami Watch for WA, OR, CA, canceled. They were expecting first waves by 2:55 Texas time this morning. Alaska experienced an 8.0 quake about 175 miles southeast of Kodiak City, Alaska. • Authorities arrested a Michigan man for threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees over …

Paul Ryan • The government shutdown is looming. The President tweets this morning that children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) “should be part of a long-term solution, not a 30-day, or short-term, extension.” The House GOP says they think they have the votes to avert a government shutdown, but the measure’s …

Hawaii worked on ‘Duck and Cover.’ A Turkish plane took nose-dive off a cliff at the end of the runway. A TV reporter interviewed a man in 17-degree Minnesota weather. He was wearing summer shorts, no shirt or shoes. A car goes airborne, crashes into the second story of a …

• Donald Trump is in the news after using one of his great vocabulary words he knows and how he used it. While the rest of the cable news is openly calling the president ‘racist,’ Fox News is dutifully defending his remark. • A Maypearl woman, Sandra Louise Garner, is …

Iran says it will escalate its nuclear program faster than ever if the U.S. backs out of its 2015 deal. Wal-Mart boosts the minimum wage to $11 and hands out bonuses up to $1,000 for hourly workers for its U.S. employees. A Baltimore hospital said it was investigating Wednesday after a …

• Salvadorans are worried about their future in the U.S. • Willie Nelson is under the weather. He abruptly ended his concert in San Diego this weekend after coughing and experiencing breathing difficulties during his first song. • It is so hot in Australia right now that the temperature is …

• California gets hit again. This time it is mudslides amid heavy rains on fire-scarred mountains. Officials issued evacuations for parts of Southern California that earlier were devastated by wildfires as the first major rainstorm of the season hits. • North Korea promises to send its “army of beauties” and …

The Washington Post says the dam of denial broke over the weekend. It was after Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury” quoted the deniers of the White House saying unfavorable thinks about President Trump. Football journalist Courtney Roland vanished after being followed home in Houston. She had just covered a …

• Fresh from the Bannon feud, President Trump is meeting with Republicans to strategize for 2018 at Camp David. • Stock futures climb in a strong week for Wall Street. • The labor market slowed in December as the U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in a sign that worker shortages …

• Mormon President Thomas S. Monson, who headed one of the world’s fastest growing and most affluent religions, has died at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 90. • President Trump tweets that the U.S. “gets no respect” from Palestinians as Nikki Haley threatens to withdraw American funding. • …