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The Pack fire has grown to 1,000 acres amid high winds, but a coming winter storm might help firefighters control the blaze. Read full article

A House investigation that the G.O.P. has tried to use to deflect calls for more transparency has yielded striking revelations that have only fueled the Epstein saga. Read full article

Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action. Read full article

For all his bluster, the F.B.I.’s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs. Read full article

The agency intervened in a lawsuit brought by the California Republican Party seeking to throw out a map, approved last week by the state’s voters, that would redraw House districts to favor Democrats. Read full article

The strike in the Caribbean Sea brings the death toll in the Trump administration’s lethal campaign to 80 since early September. Read full article

The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval. Read full article

Several states have restarted food stamp payments, but millions of Americans are still awaiting the November deposits that the Trump administration resisted paying out in full. Read full article

The death-row inmate, Tremane Wood, 46, had already had his last meal. It was only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has stepped in to stop an execution. Read full article

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, began handing out $10,000 checks to T.S.A. workers who “went above and beyond” during the shutdown, after the president recommended similar bonuses for some air traffic controllers. Read full article