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January 08, 2025
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

This morning, we woke to two of our Southern California correspondents having evacuated their homes in suburban Los Angeles. Francine Kiefer and Ali Martin are safe. Ever the professional, Francine even filed a story on the fires.

Yesterday, Stephanie Hanes wrote about the consequences of fiercer disasters on communities worldwide. Today’s example hits closer to home for us. But it’s why we do what we do every day, trying to bring the whole world into the Monitor family.


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News briefs


Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

The Explainer

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Firefighters work to extinguish flames as the Eaton Fire, one of four blazes spreading in Southern California, burns in Pasadena, California, Jan. 7, 2025.
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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024.
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A special edition of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo lies amid wreaths and pencils left in front of Charlie Hebdo's former offices Jan. 7, 2025, during commemorations marking 10 years since the attack on the magazine.

Points of Progress

What's going right

The Monitor's View

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Music fans at the Sea. Hear. Now music festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Sept. 14, 2024. In several states, new transparency laws require ticket companies to show hidden fees and surcharges upfront in the prices they advertise.

A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

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People visit Mount Qasioun, the highest point that overlooks the Syrian capital of Damascus, Jan. 7, 2025. It had been closed to visitors for almost 14 years under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted Dec. 8, 2024. It has become crowded with visitors.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for spending time with The Christian Science Monitor Daily. Please come back tomorrow for Ann Scott Tyson’s latest report on South Korea. She catches up with demonstrators she met there in the early moments of the current political crisis to see how they’re viewing the situation now.

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