Wednesday, January 8

🚨NATION

📌 House passes immigration crackdown as first act of 2025 (AXIOS)

📌 Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say (AP)

📌 Biden admin finalizes rule to ban medical debt from credit reports (NPR)

📌 Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their life sentences (NBC)

 🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Iran executes over 1K prisoners in 2024, highest total in 30 years, report says (FOX)

📌 Tibet earthquake kills at least 126 people and leaves many trapped (AP)

📌 U.K.'s anti-corruption minister refers herself to ethics watchdog over links to ousted Bangladeshi PM (NBC)

📌 Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front party, dies at 96 (CNN)

 📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Meta hosts AI chatbots imitating 'Hitler,' 'Jesus Christ' and Taylor Swift (NBC)

📌 Getty Images, Shutterstock gear up for AI challenge with $3.7 billion merger (REUTERS)

📌 Talks to avert another potentially crippling port strike set to resume (AP)

📌 2 dead bodies discovered in landing gear of JetBlue plane (FOX)

 🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Target taps Tom Holland’s star power for Dry January (CNN)

📌 Aubrey Plaza addresses ‘unimaginable tragedy’ of losing her husband (NBC)

📌 Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck finalize divorce 20 weeks after she filed (PEOPLE)

📌 Blake Lively’s lawyers say Justin Baldoni legal battle is ‘not a feud’ over ‘It Ends With Us’ creative differences, criticize ‘more attacks’ from Baldoni’s team (VARIETY)

📌 Allison Holker reveals that she found drugs hidden by tWitch as she prepared for his funeral (TODAY)