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The Latest: 01/23/2025 10:59pm ET
This is your 24/7 News Update, the latest news this hour in just four minutes. President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in Seattle. Brad Ford reports. The judge ruled the lawsuit by Washington, Oregon, Illinois, and Arizona would likely prevail. Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown said the unconstitutional and an American executive order will hopefully never take effect. Brown says it's been recognized by generations of jurists, lawmakers, and presidents until President Trump's illegal action. Millions of Americans are dealing with another day of frigid winter weather. Those from the Midwest East Coast and down to the Gulf Coast are dealing with freezing temperatures. Tens of thousands woke up without power on Thursday and the lack of snow removal equipment in southern areas where snow is rare could lead to treacherous road conditions for days. President Trump says former President Biden took bad advice when he didn't pardon himself before leaving office. While speaking on a number of topics from the Oval Office, Trump said he's open to inviting pardoned January 6 defendants to the White House. The president signed a number of executive orders, including one, that will look into the creation of national digital assets stockpile. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are agreeing to pay more than $7 billion to resolve lawsuits related to the opioid crisis. California Attorney General Rob Bonta laid out the payment process. This will be followed by $500 million after one year and additional $500 million after two years and $400 million after three years. On Thursday, the Sacklers increased their proposed settlement contribution to $7.4 billion after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a previous settlement last year. The Best Picture field at this year's Oscars has a very musical feel. Nominees include Wicked, Amelia Perez, and a complete unknown. Also up for Best Picture are Annora and The Brutalist, Conclave, and Dune Part II. I'm Brian Shook. A federal judge is rejecting former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's latest bid for a retrial. Kristen Marks reports. Menendez's lawyers argue that his conviction on federal corruption charges should be dismissed because the jury was given a laptop that contained material that was supposed to be excluded from trial. The judge said the defense either chose not to inspect the laptop or did review it and failed to call attention to the evidence. Menendez was found guilty last summer of accepting cash and gold bars and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. Two businessmen were also convicted and Menendez's wife is awaiting trial on similar charges. The 71-year-old is set to be sentenced January 29th. Prosecutors are calling for a 15-year prison sentence. Blake Lively is asking a judge to put a gag order on Justin Baldoni's lawyers. Baldoni is the director of the Blake Lively movie It Ends With Us. Last month, Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment. Baldoni then countersued. It's been almost exactly five years since the first case of COVID was confirmed in the U.S. and researchers say the virus could be causing increased cases of chronic fatigue syndrome. Michael Kastner has more. A new study finds that six months or more after a COVID infection, people were seven and a half times more likely to show signs for the syndrome. Some 13 to 58 percent of people who have suffered from long COVID met the criteria for CFS and researchers think the two illnesses could be triggered by the same factors. The study was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. I'm Michael Kastner. A rare copy of The Declaration of Independence is expected to fetch as much as $4 million at auction. The copy from July 1776 was printed to help spread the document to the public. It's one of only ten known to be in existence, most of which are in collections. It hits the auction block at Sotheby's tomorrow. I'm Brian Schook.