The New York Times: Μια ανησυχητική πρόβλεψη για το Λος Άντζελες – Η απειλή για περισσότερους ισχυρούς ανέμους στο Λος Άντζελες – Τα τελευταία από τον πόλεμο στην Ουκρανία – Οι συζητήσεις για κατάπαυση του πυρός στη Γάζα αποκτούν δυναμική – Το Λος Άντζελες προετοιμάζεται για επικίνδυνους ανέμους – Έντονες μάχες στην περιοχή Κουρσκ της Ρωσίας – Μια νέα εποχή αμερικανικής παρέμβασης στην Ευρώπη – Γάζα: Οι συνομιλίες για κατάπαυση του πυρός φάνηκαν να αποκτούν νέα δυναμική καθώς οι μεσολαβητές πίεζαν να σταματήσουν στις μάχες και την απελευθέρωση των ομήρων πριν αναλάβει τα καθήκοντά του ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ – Ο κόσμος της μόδας βρίσκεται σε μια χρονιά σεισμικών αλλαγών. Νέοι σχεδιαστές σε τουλάχιστον οκτώ μεγάλες μάρκες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των Chanel, Calvin Klein, Bottega Veneta και Givenchy, θα κάνουν το ντεμπούτο τους στην πασαρέλα το 2025. Έρχονται σε μια εποχή παγκόσμιας αβεβαιότητας και επιβράδυνσης των δαπανών πολυτελείας

A basketball hoop and a completely burned car are among the remains left behind by a fire in a residential area.
Destruction in the Pacific Palisades yesterday. Loren Elliott for The New York Times

Los Angeles braces for dangerous winds

Strong winds are expected to return to Los Angeles, threatening to reverse some of the hard-fought gains that firefighters have made in battling the devastating blazes there. Here’s the latest.

Officials issued a rare fire-danger alert for today through tomorrow afternoon, when the heaviest gusts are expected. The same kind of alert was issued a week ago, before the start of the Eaton fire, which has burned parts of Altadena and Pasadena, and the Palisades fire on the west side of Los Angeles.

In anticipation of the new threat, fire crews and resources are being deployed to at-risk areas, officials said. Winds in the coming days might not be as strong as those last week, but their duration could increase the danger.

Death toll: The Eaton fire has killed at least 16 people, making it one of the deadliest in California’s history, and at least eight people have died in the Palisades blaze. Another 23 people have been reported missing, and officials have warned that the number of fatalities is likely to rise. Here’s what we know about the dead and the search for the missing.

Evacuations: About 92,000 people are under evacuation orders, down from more than 100,000 on Sunday. The largest fires have damaged more than 12,000 houses, cars and outbuildings, among other structures.

Wreckage from a destroyed tank on the side of a road.
The remains of a Ukrainian tank on Thursday, a few miles from the Russian border. Finbarr O’Reilly for The New York Times

Intense fighting in Russia’s Kursk region

Five months after Ukrainian forces swept into the Kursk region of Russia, the two armies are engaged in some of the most furious clashes of the war there, fighting over land and leverage in the conflict.

The territory could play an important role in any cease-fire negotiations. Facing the prospect of an unpredictable new U.S. president who has vowed to end the war swiftly, Ukraine hopes to use Russian territory as a bargaining chip, while Russia hopes to knock it out of Ukraine’s grasp.

In recent days, on a road in Ukraine approaching the Russian border, a steady stream of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles rolled past broken-down and blown-up equipment. Russian bombs and rockets exploded with thunderous force in border villages, and Ukrainian missiles could be seen streaking across the sky in the opposite direction.

North Korean troops: An estimated 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to help Russia in the conflict. They are taking heavy casualties in unfamiliar territory, and their government has not told its people about their deployment.

U.S.-Russian relations: Suspicious cargo fires in Germany, Britain and Poland over the summer led White House officials to question whether Moscow had a much bigger plan in mind: bringing the war in Ukraine to American shores.

Three men sit in front of monitors in a dark arena.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a professional wrestling match in New York City in November. Al Drago for The New York Times

A new era of American interference in Europe

For years, Europe’s governments have been trying to resist covert influence operations from adversaries like Russia and China. Now, they face the challenge of fending off extremely well-funded efforts by Elon Musk and others in Donald Trump’s MAGA movement to oust elected leaders, empower far-right causes and perhaps even claim territory.

U.S. influence campaigns in other countries are not new. But MAGA seems to be intentionally sowing discord within U.S. allies, and it’s unclear if Europe’s political immune system has the antibodies to defend against these new incursions.

Greenland: The gigantic island in the Arctic Ocean may not be for sale, but it would like to work more closely with the U.S. on defense and natural resources, its prime minister said.

Biden: The departing president argued in a speech that he strengthened U.S. alliances while in office and that America’s adversaries were now weaker.

MORE TOP NEWS
A person in a hooded jacket walking through the dusty rubble of destroyed buildings.
Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Gaza: Cease-fire talks appeared to be gaining new momentum as mediators pressed for a halt in the fighting and the release of hostages before Donald Trump takes office.
Middle East: Gulf states and Trump appear to be diverging on several key issues, like Israel and Iran.
South Korea: The eight justices on the country’s Constitutional Court will decide whether to remove or reinstate the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol.
China: Beijing announced that the country’s trade surplus had reached almost $1 trillion last year.
Tech: The Biden administration debuted new rules meant to keep advanced A.I. technology away from China and other adversaries.
Politics: Senate confirmation hearings this week for Trump’s cabinet picks will test his grip on the Republican Party.
Japan: strong earthquake struck off the country’s southern coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Trump: A judge cleared the way for the partial release of a special counsel’s report on the now-defunct case accusing Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Media: Reporters and editors at U.S. newspapers are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the Trump administration.
Pope Francis: The pontiff’s autobiography is set to be published today.
SPORTS NEWS
Soccer: Jonathan Morgan has agreed to give evidence at an inquest into the death of Maddy Cusack, who played for Sheffield United.
Tennis: Nick Kyrgios says his losing match at the Australian Open might be his last singles appearance in Melbourne.
Boxing: Tyson Fury has announced his retirement. “It’s been a blast,” he said.
MORNING READ
A 1948 Dior fashion show, with a jam-packed audience of women, in proper suits and hats, observing the introduction of a new collection. At center, superimposed, is a model outlined in red.
Illustration by The New York Times; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The fashion world is in for a year of seismic change. New designers at no fewer than eight major brands, including Chanel, Calvin Klein, Bottega Veneta and Givenchy, will make their runway debuts in 2025. They’re coming in at a time of global uncertainty and a slowdown in luxury spending.

Our fashion critic Vanessa Friedman is hoping they see the turmoil as an opportunity for a revolution. “Surprise us,” she writes. “Enchant us. Shock us. I dare you.”

ARTS AND IDEAS
A looping video showing a few frames of the opening credits for HBO’s “The Last of Us.”

Why do TV title sequences have so much … stuff?

Threads, enchanted lands, grains of sand: There’s a lot going on in the opening credits of the average prestige TV drama. “Game of Thrones” took viewers across an epic fictional map, while “The Last of Us” uses the fungi that turns humankind into zombies to create onscreen images of its characters.

TV credits weren’t always this heavy-handed with a metaphor, but the best of today’s sequences tell their own story and build on the narrative.

Related: Read our obituary of Karen Wynn Fonstad, the cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

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On a white plate, a sausage sits atop gnocchi, cherry tomatoes and baby spinach.
David Malosh for The New York Times

Cook: Roasted gnocchi with sausages and peppers riffs on a classic sandwich.

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