Every year, over the autumn and winter months, this district in China’s southeast Guangzhou province fills with the scent of drying tangerine peels, or chenpi. For some locals, it’s the smell of gold.

Hundreds of people braved single-digit temperatures to gather in downtown Chicago in opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda as the 47th president was sworn into office Monday.

The Capitol Rotunda saw a caste of magnates worth more than $1 trillion. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires were given pride of place behind Trump as he was sworn in as the 47th president.

Top state officials have already made promises that, under Trump, money can be shifted to education. But there's signs that Texas' multi-billion dollar border spending will continue to grow under the new administration:

All poultry activities have been suspended in Georgia after bird flu was confirmed in a commercial poultry operation, officials said.

Labour backs plans for £15m fund to distribute surplus food from farms

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Our columnist David Brooks selected some of the best long-form journalism of 2024. "These essays are a reminder that if you're a curious person willing to sit down and read the best that's being written, you can give yourself an amazing education," he writes.

A federal judge in New York issued an order Thursday stating Jay-Z's attorney engaged in "ad hominem" and "inflammatory" attacks against Tony Buzbee. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Seeing a lot of prepping content for what the next four years will bring. What I’m not seeing l, and this may be obvious; content that can teach and bridge the political gaps… this may be/IS wishful thinking. But are we so far gone as to give up on all engagement with opposing political trenches?

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