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January 25, 2025

Past News

Rebel feud displaces more than 30,000 in northern Colombia (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian region of Catatumbo where two rival rebel groups are engaged in a bloody battle.

Why RootsTech 2025 organizers hope attendees will ‘discover’ and be inspired at global family history gathering (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

Knowing one’s family story can strengthen a person and empower them to be more resilient when facing life’s up and downs, Elder Kevin S. Hamilton, a General Authority Seventy, said on the Nov. 19, 2024, Church News podcast.

Elephants are not people, US court rules (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people.

Biden and Trump pardons both ‘flout the rule of law,’ Washington Post says (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

The Washington Post denounced pardons from both former President Biden and President Donald Trump that were issued on Monday as Biden exited and Trump entered into office.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels release crew of commercial vessel seized in Red Sea in November 2023 (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Wednesday they released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war.

Once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm hits Gulf Coast, with record-breaking snowfall in Florida (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

The Gulf Coast is digging out from a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm that struck from Texas to Florida, closing airports and crippling roadways.

Democrats join DOGE subcommittee, including member seeking ‘good government’ (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

Democrats have named their members to serve on the House Oversight Subcommittee for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and warn they will “fight back” against cuts to critical federal programs.

How ‘first-class devotion to first-class causes’ benefits missionaries (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

Full-time missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should give “first-class devotion to first-class causes” during their service, with one of those “first-class causes” how a mission can impact the missionary’s own future, said Elder Michael T. Ringwood of the Presidency of the Seventy.

Like a smartphone to a network, Latter-day Saints must be connected to God through guidance of the Holy Ghost (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

Just as a smartphone must be connected to a network in order to quickly and efficiently find information, “we need to connect with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to receive guidance from heaven, so we survive in this complex world we are living in,” said Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

DOJ Orders Crackdown on Local Efforts to Block Immigration Enforcement (Wednesday 22 January, 2025)

The Department of Justice has instructed federal prosecutors to pursue charges against state and local officials obstructing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement.

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