Day: January 15, 2025

Senate Republicans are promising no drama for Trump’s cabinet nominees in hearings this week. Do Democrats have anything to say about that? Plus, L.A. neighborhoods remain on lockdown after wildfires, and anti-corruption officials arrest South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. For more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter . Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Ryland Barton, Jason Breslow, Gigi Douban, Ally Schweitzer and Lisa Thomson. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas, Iman Ma’ani and Lilly Quiroz. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Stacey Abbott. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.

Will there be ways to bypass the ban – or could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia to the European Union may be phased out by Brussels, according to Bloomberg.