As weather conditions improve and firefighters make progress in containing the Los Angeles wildfires, hazards remain at the site of each blaze. Follow for live updates.

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Throughout American history, images of Black women have been symbolized as the mammy, the welfare queen, the jezebel, the sapphire — and yes, the tragic mulatto. Meanwhile, the women themselves have surpassed and outsmarted their literal and figurative captors.

We saw this manifest itself in a number of ways, notably MSNBC’s lower ratings, which right-wingers crowed about on social media. As Governing magazine put it, “When a sports team loses, its fans don’t hang around for the postgame show.” I did this myself. I took nearly three weeks off work and read relatively little news. It was kind of great.

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Our US election blog is returning for Donald Trump's inauguration - starting with a live Q&A with our US correspondents stateside on Friday afternoon, ahead of his swearing in on Monday.

The music icon teased that she was going to reveal something special after her halftime performance at the Ravens-Texans game on Christmas.