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The Latest: 01/24/2025 11:59am ET
This is your 24/7 news update, the latest views this hour in just four minutes. President Trump is visiting North Carolina and California today. He's currently in North Carolina where Tropical Storm Helene caused billions of dollars worth of damage last September. He'll then head to California to review the damage from the recent Los Angeles area wildfires. Clean-up efforts are underway after a historic snowstorm hit the south this week. At least 11 people were killed because of the cold and wintry conditions that stretched from Alabama to North Carolina. Preliminary economic damage from the storm is estimated at between 14 and 17 billion dollars. The Senate is set to vote tonight on confirming President Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The Senate voted largely along party lines Thursday to advance Hegseth's nomination to the floor with a final vote of 51-49. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted against the former Fox News host, whose faced allegations of sexual assault and excessive drinking. Thousands of people are attending the annual march for life in Washington, D.C. today. There will be a series of high-profile speakers at noon Eastern. The actual march will begin at 1, kicking off from the Washington Monument and wrapping up in front of the Supreme Court building. President Trump has unveiled another executive order, this one calling for the declassification of records related to high-level assassinations. Namely, those of former President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presidential historian Michael Beshloss says this might help answer lingering questions. "He feels, and other people might feel, that to have these final records and at least dispel some of the mysteries might help to clear away at least a little bit of the confusion and the distrust." Responding to the news in a post on X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote, "Now do UFOs." Nearly half of remote workers say they'd quit their jobs if forced to return to the office, according to a new poll from Pew Research, 75 percent of U.S. adults whose jobs can be performed from home do so a day or more each week. Of that pool, 46 percent say they would leave their current job if their boss required them to come back full-time. I'm Lisa Taylor. ICE's warning U.S. citizens could be questioned as agents carry out migrant sweeps in several major cities, including Newark, New Jersey. Natalie Migliori has more. With President Trump's immigration policies already taking hold, people are reacting to the raids that some Americans may be subject to. "I think that somebody didn't do their homework and mistakes are being made, but you know, they got to get their system down." U.S. citizen, well, that would of course be a big case for the courts and probably be a way to maybe help end these sweeps. ICE says it has arrested hundreds of illegal migrants. With border czar Tom Holman mourning, there could be collateral arrests. The Department of Homeland Security took to social media, saying the American people are already seeing results as border encounters sharply decline. I'm Natalie Migliori. Rents for single-family homes are now 41 percent higher than pre-pandemic prices. According to the real estate company Zillow, multifamily housing rents have risen 26 percent in the same time frame, while high mortgage rates are bringing down buyer demand, new construction of multifamily buildings are keeping rent increases up. Zillow's chief economist said millennials, whose oldest members are in their 40s, are looking to move into bigger spaces driving that demand. A new study finds smartphones could be making teenagers more aggressive and causing hallucinations. Jennifer Pulsoni has the tales. The study from non-profit Sapien Labs found that the younger a person is when they start using a smartphone, the more likely they are to develop psychological problems. A majority of teens polled in the U.S. and India said they had feelings of hopelessness, guilt, anxiety, and unwanted strange thoughts. The study also found that the problems are more common with girls. Federal prosecutors want the former interpreter for Dodger's Star, Shohei Otani, to get almost five years in prison. On Thursday, prosecutors announced they have audio of a payment Zohara impersonating Otani while on the phone with a bank. Msohara has already pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud, admitting to stealing almost 17 million dollars from the baseball star. I'm Lisa Taylor.