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The Latest: 01/27/2025 06:59am ET
This is your 24/7 news update, the latest news this hour in just four minutes. Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and survivors and family members are gathering in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Some 3,000 people were expected for the ceremony, but only 50 are survivors. Ten years ago, 300 survivors were in attendance. On the brink of a trade war, the United States says the Colombian government has agreed to President Trump's immigration terms over the weekend after he threatened tariffs Alice Barr in Washington. The Colombia's President Gustavo Pedro took issue with the use of military planes, saying a migrant is not a criminal and should be treated with a dignity a human being deserves. That led President Trump to threaten tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombian officials. Colombia threatened to retaliate with its own tariffs. And now the White House says Colombia has agreed to all of its terms, including accepting military flights, saying that tariffs will be held in reserve and not signed unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. Officials in Southern California are concerned about possible mudslides with rain being forecast in the areas of the wildfires. National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the burn areas. Winter weather advisories, along with winter storm warnings above 4,500 feet, are also in effect for the mountain areas. A proposal from an AI company would allow the U.S. government to own as much as 50 percent of a new company that could buy TikTok from its Chinese owners. Tammy Trujillo, details. Perplexity AI is offering to join with the government to create an entity that, for now, is being called NUCO. It would buy TikTok without the company's core recommendation and algorithm, and existing investors would receive equity in the new company. The government would keep hard ownership under an IPO worth at least $300 billion. I'm Michael Kastner. Target is the latest big company to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Rob Martier explains. The Minneapolis-based retailer announced the decision in a memo to employees on Friday. According to CNBC, the memo cited the importance of staying in step with the evolving landscape to help drive growth and serve its millions of customers. With the move, Target joins companies like Walmart, Meta, and McDonald's in dropping DEI-related pledges and goals. I'm Rob Martier. After nearly being sunk by the pandemic, the cruise industry is sailing into some record territory. Mario Neil reports. Skeptics thought the cruise industry would never survive COVID, but AAA says it's the one sector of the travel industry that's outperformed the rest. 19 million Americans are expected to cruise this year, an increase of 4.5%. The cruise industry says with inflation a big concern, more passengers are lured by the value of cruising, with many taking advantage of voyages that last just two to five days. It may be Monday, but it could be the best Monday ever. That's because it's National Chocolate Cake Day. Retentice with more. It may be hard to believe, but chocolate cake is a relatively new creation. It came about by accident when a chocolate maker and a doctor tried to make chocolate by grinding cocoa beans. The first chocolate cake recipe was actually printed in 1847, but the convenient box cake mixes we know today came about 100 years later. So 78 years of easy chocolatey goodness on a cake plate, and there's only one way to celebrate, grab a cake, grab a fork and eat.