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The Latest: 01/28/2025 01:59am ET
This is your 24/7 news update, the latest views this hour in just four minutes. President Trump is addressing House Republicans' annual policy retreat at his national Derral Resort just outside Miami. More from Mark Mayfield. Trump touted the work his team has done since taking office, including saying he's raised a lot of money for the next election, but he assumes he can't use for himself. Past seven days, my administration has been moving with urgency and historic speed to reverse every single disaster of the Biden administration. By the way, the guy was a disaster. Okay. You know, we want to be nice. He credited his success during the 2024 election to TikTok, saying he became a little jaded towards the app, but now we'll see what happens. Trump also mocked the idea of multiple genders, saying some people say, like seven genders, that they've got some weird stuff going on. He then turned his attention to immigration, where he said the country is moving forward very fast. I'm Mark Mayfield. Speaker Mark Johnson is considering making wildfire aid for California conditional on forcing the state to embrace voter ID laws. President Trump discussed the idea Friday when he was in Los Angeles with Johnson criticizing the state's handling of elections and other decisions leading up to the fires. Democrats, including California governor Gavin Newsom have widely been against suggestions of conditional aid for the state, noting Johnson's home state of Louisiana has received federal aid through multiple hurricane seasons. The Trump administration is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on criminal investigations into the now president. Brian Schuch has that story. A letter from acting attorney general James McHenry said they cannot be trusted to faithfully execute Trump's agenda. This comes as the White House moves to investigate prosecutors who oversaw criminal cases against the January 6 defendants. I'm Brian Schuch. Florida, it's the best place to retire in 2025. That's according to a new survey by Wallachob. Florida was ranked number one for retirement nationwide due to its low taxes for retirees. And the funding it gets for seniors from the Older Americans Act. Some of the other top states to retire to include Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming. Kentucky was named the worst. I'm Tammy Trujillo. Survivors and family members commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birken al concentration camp in Poland Monday. Lisa Taylor reports. I stood and watch helplessly as little girls from the nearby barrack were marched away crying and shivering to the gas chamber. That survivor, Tova Friedman speaking at Monday's ceremony, Auschwitz Birkenau was the site of unimaginable Nazi atrocities. The murder of a million Jews during the Holocaust and a hundred thousand other victims of fascism. Fifty survivors were among those who attended the ceremony. Ten years ago, 300 survivors were in attendance. I'm Lisa Taylor. Scott Bessent is confirmed as the next Treasury Secretary. Monday, the Senate voted 6829 in a favor of the ex hedge fund manager. The founder of the key square group was advanced by the Senate Finance Committee last week. 62 year old Bessent will oversee the IRS and influence the nation's fiscal policy. Paul McCartney is advocating for more protections against AI. That story from Michael Kastner. You never give me your money. He says more needs to be done for young artists against artificial intelligence and exploitation by tech companies in an interview with the BBC, the former Beetle Call for Regulations and decried the fact that anyone can seemingly get ripped off. McCartney said that money should be going to the artists who created a song, not some tech giant somewhere. I'm Michael Kastner. Members of Nvidia stock plummeted at a record pace Monday due to the emergence of a new AI model from China. It led to the chip maker stock dropping 17 percent. That means Nvidia lost $589 billion, the largest single-day loss in stock market history. The massive sell-off was a result of China's deep-seek emerging as a more cost-efficient AI model. I'm Tammy Trujillo.