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Discontinued by the Trump administrationin 2025, theBillion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasterdataset and accompanying website are now hosted and maintained by Climate Central, a non-profit climate science organization. The group hired Adam Smith, the former lead scientist for NOAA's U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters program, to continue his work at Climate Central.

Last year, there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, the third-highest annual total on record, behind 2023 and 2024, according to the newreportreleased Thursday by Climate Central. The past year was also the 15th straight year with 10 or more billion-dollar disasters.

Billion-dollar disaster data returns, but this time it's not being run by the federal government

The costliest event of 2025 was the devastatingLos Angeles wildfiresin January, whichcaused more than $61 billion in damage, according to the analysis. Severe weather events, including severe thunderstorms and tornado outbreaks, accounted for 91% of all billion-dollar disasters last year, the analysis showed.

A record-breaking 28 billion-dollar disasters occurred in 2023,according toNOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Extreme weather events, which ranged from severe thunderstorms to hurricanes to wildfires, killed at least 492 people and impacted large swaths of the country.

With data going back to 1980, the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster database is a public record of every significant U.S. weather and climate event that has caused at least $1 billion in damages, adjusted for inflation. Government agencies, insurers, and media outlets frequently rely on the database to report the economic impact of these disasters.

Trump administration moves to dismantle prominent US weather and climate research center

However, last May, NOAAannouncedthat it was retiring the resource, stating there would be no updates beyond calendar year 2024. While all past reports, spanning 1980-2024, will remain accessible on the agency's website, they will no longer be updated and no new events will be added moving forward. NOAAsaidthat the decision to "retire" the billion-dollar weather and climate disaster product was "in alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes."

There have been 426 billion-dollar disasters recorded in the United States since 1980, with a total cost exceeding $3.1 trillion, according to Climate Central. The frequency of billion-dollar disasters has increased dramatically since the early 1980s, driven by rising extreme weather events and the growing number of people, homes and businesses in harm's way.

Whileclimate changemay not be directly responsible for causing these disasters, human-amplified climate change is making naturally occurring events more intense and more impactful.

CAIRO/DUBAI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians in separate strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, hours after the military said it had hit the site of a failed militant rocket launch, ​the latest violence to jeopardise the ceasefire.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed at least four people and wounded three others, including children, ‌in a tent in the western area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Another strike killed a person east of the city, near where Israeli forces operate.

Later on Thursday, ‌medics said a man was killed in an Israeli strike at a school, which also housed displaced families in Jabalia north of the enclave, while another strike killed another person in a tent near Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, taking Thursday's death toll to at least seven.

There was no immediate Israeli comment on the reported deaths.

Earlier, the military said it had struck a launch site shortly after the firing of a rocket that had failed to reach Israeli territory. ⁠It accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire twice in ‌the past 24 hours. A source from the Palestinian militant group told Reuters it was checking the allegation.

A ceasefire agreed in October has not progressed beyond the first phase, under which major fighting stopped, Israel withdrew from less than half ‍of Gaza and Hamas fighters released live hostages and human remains in return for detained Palestinians.

Under future phases yet to be hammered out, U.S. President Donald Trump's plan envisages Hamas disarming, Israel pulling out further and an internationally backed administration rebuilding Gaza.

But little progress has been made on the next steps. More than 400 Palestinians and three ​Israeli soldiers have been reported killed since the ceasefire took effect, and nearly all of Gaza's more than 2 million people now live in ‌makeshift homes or damaged buildings in a sliver of territory where Israeli troops have withdrawn and Hamas has reasserted control.

Israel is awaiting the handover of the final body due under the initial stage of the truce. An Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would not move to the next phase of the ceasefire until Hamas returns the remains of the last Israeli hostage still held in Gaza.

Israel has yet to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, another condition of the U.S.-backed plan, saying it will do so only once the remains are returned.

CEASEFIRE LOOKING FRAGILE

Israel and ⁠Hamas have accused each other of major breaches of the ceasefire deal and remain far ​apart on the more difficult steps envisaged for the next phase.

Israel has continued to carry ​out air strikes and targeted operations across Gaza. The Israeli military said it views "with utmost severity" any attempts by militant groups in Gaza to attack Israel.

A Hamas official told Reuters on Thursday the group had documented more than 1,100 Israeli violations ‍of the ceasefire since October and had ⁠urged mediators to intervene. The violations include killings, injuries, artillery and aerial strikes, home demolitions and detention of people, he said.

Hamas has refused to disarm and has been reasserting its control. Israel has said it will resume military action if Hamas is not disarmed peacefully.

Hamas-led militants ⁠killed some 1,200 people and abducted 251 others in an assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli figures. More than 71,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive ‌in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.

(Reporting by Jana Choukeir in Dubai and Nidal al Mughrbai in Cairo; ‌Writing by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Gareth Jones, Peter Graff and Andrew Heavens)

WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Relations between Somalia and the U.S. hit a new low after Washington said it would pause further assistance that benefits the government in Mogadishu amid a dispute over the demolition of a World Food ​Programme warehouse.

The U.S. State Department's Under Secretary of Foreign Assistance in an X post on Wednesday said Somali government officials had destroyed ‌a U.S.-funded WFP warehouse and illegally seized donor-funded food aid for vulnerable Somalis.

As a result, he said, Washington was suspending aid to Somalia. The value of the aid was not immediately clear.

A ‌WFP spokesperson on Thursday told Reuters the program had retrieved 75 metric tons of nutritional commodities. A day earlier, another WFP spokesperson said the warehouse containing that same amount of assistance was demolished by port authorities.

Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier on Thursday had disputed the assertion that the U.S.-provided aid had been stolen, and said it remained in WFP custody.

It said expansion and repurposing works had been taking place in the Mogadishu Port area, where the warehouse originally holding the aid - ⁠known as the blue warehouse - was located. Those operations "have ‌not affected the custody, management, or distribution of humanitarian assistance," it added.

The WFP spokesperson said on Wednesday that the agency was working with the authorities to address the issue and ensure the safe storage of food after the demolition of ‍the warehouse.

"The warehouse contained 75 metric tons of specialized nutritious foods intended for the treatment of malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls and young children. The warehouse is crucial for WFP's emergency operations at a moment when almost a quarter of the population (4.4 million people) are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse," the spokesperson said.

A ​Mogadishu Port Authority shipment handover note, seen by Reuters and dated Wednesday, says WFP took over the food that had been "earlier shifted from the blue ‌warehouse" to another warehouse. The note appears to be signed by a WFP Somalia official and includes a handwritten comment saying WFP will confirm final receipt of the food once a lab test confirms it is suitable for human consumption.

According to a letter to the WFP country director seen by Reuters, Somalia's Ministry of Ports and Marine Transport in November provided official notice that the program was required to vacate the blue warehouse by December 31 as a result of plans to relocate port offices.

MINNESOTA TENSION

In Trump's second term, the Republican president has pursued a hardline immigration policy that has posed a stumbling block ⁠to relations between Washington and Mogadishu. The Trump administration has barred citizens of Somalia ​from entering the U.S., and last month said it was auditing immigration cases involving U.S. ​citizens of Somali origin to detect fraud.

It has also leveled fraud allegations against some nonprofit groups in Minnesota's Somali community, with at least 56 people pleading guilty since federal prosecutors under the previous Democratic administration of Joe Biden started investigating childcare and ‍other social service programs in the Somali ⁠community.

The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday that any resumption in assistance would be dependent on Somalia's government taking accountability and remedial steps.

Since returning to office last year, the Trump administration has more widely slashed U.S. aid spending, shifting the U.S. priority in Africa from assistance to ⁠trade.

On Thursday, the U.S. embassy in South Sudan said it was suspending assistance to an area in South Sudan and considering significant reductions in another area after what it said was ‌South Sudanese officials' interference and the exploitation and theft of U.S. aid.

(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis in Washington and Ammu Kannampilly and ‌Giulia Paravicini in Nairobi; Editing by Michelle Nichols, Rosalba O'Brien and Deepa Babington)

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• Valerie Bertinelli reflects on her first episode of One Day at a Time

• The actress, who got her big start on the sitcom in 1975, appeared as a guest on the Drew Barrymore Show

• "I remember thinking I'm going to be able to show this to my children one day," Bertinelli said

Fifty years later andValerie Bertinellican vividly remember her first episode ofOne Day at a Time.

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Emmy Award-winning actress spoke on theDrew Barrymore Showwhere she, Barrymore and co-hostRoss Mathewslooked back on a moment Bertinelli will never forget.

"What is the first thing that comes to mind?" Barrymore, 50, asked Bertinelli.

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"It's been fifty years. It premiered December 16th, 1975. Whenever I think ofOne Day at a Time,I can smell it. I can smell the stage because it was my first big job," theValerie's Home Cookingalum said.

The CBS sitcom, which ran from December 16, 1975 to May 28, 1984, starred Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips and Bertinelli as a family of three.

Franklin portrayed single mother Ann Romano as she navigated life with her two teenage daughters, Julie (Phillips) and Bertinelli's Barbara.

"I'm holding the doorknob and I can see the audience because I'm right here and I'm about to go in. I have my basketball, I'm fifteen years old and I'm saying my line over and over: 'Mom, mom I made the team, mom, mom I made the team,' because I wanted to make sure I got my first line right and I remember thinking, this is what's so weird," the actress and author said.

She added, "I remember thinking I'm going to be able to show this to my children one day."

Bertinelli has one child, a son namedWolfgang "Wolfie" Van Halen, from her first marriage to late musicianEddie Van Halen.

"I don't think Wolfie's ever seen the show. I don't think he ever has," theHot in Clevelandalum confessed of her son.

Mathews and Barrymore joked that now Wolfie has time to catch up on the series "one day at a time," before the comedian announced a special surprise.

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"We are gonna celebrate. We have something fun. We have some retroOne Day at a Timelunchboxes. Look at this," Mathews said, showing off the item that had the characters' images on them.

"Little 15-year-old Valerie," Bertinelli said while looking at herself.

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The actress also reflected on her role ahead of the 50th anniversary while speaking exclusively toEntertainment Weeklyin February 2025.

"I remember being 15, standing at the apartment door, and really thinking, at 15 years old, 'This isgonna change my life,'" she told the outlet. "I don't know how I knew that then, but I could feel it. I wish I'd feel those feelings more."

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NEED TO KNOW

• Princess Kate opened up during a surprise stop at Charing Cross Hospital, speaking with a volunteer who worked with chemotherapy patients

• The Princess of Wales announced in March 2024 that she was undergoing treatment for cancer and said in January 2025 that she was in remission

Kate Middletonshared an empathetic reflection that referenced her own treatment for cancer during an unannounced visit to a hospital withPrince William.

The Princess of Wales, 43,made the personal comment during her stop at Charing Cross Hospital in west Londonon Jan. 8, opening up in conversation with a volunteer who worked with chemotherapy patients.

The volunteer spoke about how patients and visitors are there "for hours," to which Princess Kate replied, "I know,"Hello!magazinereported. "We know," she then added, touching Prince William's arm.

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Prince William, 43, also referenced his wife's cancer treatment before a roundtable discussion during the hospital visit. According toThe Sun, he told staff, "Both of us have had different experiences with hospitals. Me working with the air ambulance; Catherine with her recent health journey."

He continued, "And coming here today and reminding ourselves just how important all the teams are, all the staff, the patients. It's so heartwarming, and it's so important that we kind of acknowledge and appreciate all that goes on in the NHS and that very strong bond between patient and carer."

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It was a rare and emotional revelation from the Princess of Wales about her own health journey, after undergoing treatment for cancer in 2024.

Princess Kate released avideo messagein March 2024 to announce that she was receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer. She reduced her royal duties to focus on her health and said in September 2024 that she completedchemotherapy treatment.

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In January 2025, she shared with "relief" that she wasin remission, making the announcement after visiting The Royal Marsden Hospital's Chelsea hub. That update came after the princess visited the renowned cancer center and coincided with the confirmation that she received treatment from the Royal Marsden during her cancer journey.

Princess Kate returned to a more regular schedule of royal work in 2025 and kicked off 2026 with William, making a surprise joint appearance to kick off the new year's royal duties.

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The royal couple and joint patrons of NHS Charities Together visited Charing Cross Hospital to highlight the work of NHS staff and volunteers as they respond to increased demand for services during the winter months. William and Kate surprised healthcare staff on their tea break and heard about the pressures they face during the winter virus season, then met with volunteers who help improve care for patients and alleviate pressure from the wider workforce.

The Prince and Princess of Wales stepped out together after their children,Prince George, 12,Princess Charlotte, 10, andPrince Louis, 7, returned to school after a break and before a special day: Princess Kate's 44th birthday on Friday, Jan. 9.

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• A new book about King Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry just dropped and it's full of drama.

• Author Robert Jobson claims Prince Harry "demanded funds" from his father, prompting him to declare "I'm not a bank."

• A source close to harry has disputed the book, saying he's "not a big fan of fiction."

It's no secret that King Charles and Prince Harry don't exactly have the best relationship of late, and a new book is getting into one of their biggest fights.

According to Robert Jobson inThe Windsor Legacythe Queen was "tired of the drama" after Harry moved to California with Meghan Markle, and ordered that his calls be "redirected" to then-Prince Charles.

The book claims that Harry "swore at him and demanded funds," prompting his dad to declare "I'm not a bank" to his friends.

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Meanwhile, Jobson also claims that the Queen "made it clear to those close to her that privately she felt let down by the Sussexes' departure, which she saw as short-sighted and a missed opportunity." Her Majesty also allegedly had her issues with Prince William, and was upset when he wouldn't stand in for her at an event due to "fatherly duties." Per Jobson, she was "irritated and scoffed, wasn't that what nannies and policemen were for?"

FYI, Prince Harry isn't here for these claims, and a source close to him told Page Six he's "not a big fan of fiction."

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Good's defenders − including city and state leaders − are calling what happened on Jan. 7 an unjustified attack, while federal authorities say the agent was acting in self-defense. Already her death has become a lightning rod in an already tense and divided nation.

But whatever Good was trying to do amid an immigration enforcement operation that was unwelcomed by the city, she was more than the last seconds of her life.

Her mother, Donna Ganger,told the Minnesota Star Tribunethat Good lived with her partner in Minneapolis and was a compassionate woman who had "taken care of people all her life."

"She was loving, forgiving and affectionate," Ganger told the newspaper. "She was an amazing human being."

Vigil held for woman killed in ICE related shooting in Minneapolis

Though most of them had never heard of Good's name before Wednesday, hundreds of people attended a vigil in Good's honor hours after the shooting, chanting over and over again: "Say her name! Renee Good! Say her name! Renee Good!"

As Minneapolis and ICE grapple with the national spotlight on the confrontation that killed Good and the ensuing firestorm, USA TODAY is working to learn about who Good was and what drove her to go to the scene of what would become the site of her death.

Here's what we know so far.

What else do we know about Renee Nicole Good?

On her Instagram account, Good describes herself as a "poet and writer and wife and mom and (expletive) guitar strummer from Colorado" who was "experiencing Minneapolis."

Good, originally from Colorado Springs, went on to study creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according toa social media postfrom the school. The award-winning poet hosted a podcast with her then husband, Tim Macklin, andgraduated in 2020, according to the school.

"When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons," the school said.

The Star Tribunereported that Macklin, 36, died in 2023 and was the father of Good's 6-year-old son, citing Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., the father of Good's late husband. Good's ex-husband, who was not identified, toldThe Washington Postandthe Associated Pressthat Good's two other children were 15 and 12 years old.

Good's father, Tim Ganger, told thePosthis daughter lived with her parents in Valley Falls, Kansas for a time after Macklin's death.

"She had a good life, but a hard life," Ganger told the outlet. "She was a wonderful person."

Good also spent about two years living in Kansas City, Missouri,according to records obtained by KMBC.Joan Rose told the outlet her former neighbor was "not a terrorist. Not an extremist. That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse."

Mary Radford, 27, told the Star Tribune that Good had recently moved in next door to her in Minnesota and she had had "wonderful conversations" with her family.

"We're gonna miss seeing them — forever," she said.

A GoFundMethat USA TODAY is working to verify says that donated funds will go toward Good's wife and son "as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother. It describes Good as "pure sunshine, pure love."

What do we know about why Good was at immigration enforcement?

Details are few on what Good was doing at the immigration enforcement operation.

The Minneapolis City Councilsaid in a statement to NPRthat Good "was out caring for her neighbors" when the confrontation happened.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar described Good as a "legal observer." Legal observers often attend police actions to document and monitor law enforcement behavior − a common practice used by activists from the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s to Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

A LinkedIn profile that appears to be Good's lists her as a working in real estate investment and property management and renovation.

Good's mother, Ganger, told the Tribune that her daughter wasn't "part of anything like that at all," referring to protesters who have been obstructing ICE agents. She said her daughter "was probably terrified."

One person was killed in a shooting involving a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, officials said. Minneapolis Gov. Tim Walz said on Jan. 7 that the shooting involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has surged agents into the Minneapolis area amid a broader federal crackdown on fraud in the state. Here, a member of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) restrains a protester trying to block vehicles from leaving the scene after a driver of a vehicle was shot.

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One person was killed ina shooting involvinga federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, officials said. Minneapolis Gov.Tim Walzsaid on Jan. 7that the shooting involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has surged agents into the Minneapolis area amid a broader federal crackdown on fraud in the state. Here, a member of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) restrains a protester trying to block vehicles from leaving the scene after a driver of a vehicle was shot.

Vigil held to honor Renee Nicole Good

About 1,000 people attended a vigil held in freezing temperatures on Wednesday night to honor Renee Nicole Good.

"We're here today because this is a profound tragedy for Renee and her loved ones and her family," Minnesota State Rep. Aisha Gomez told the crowd.

Erin Stene, a community organizer in Minneapolis, said people are expected to be at the site for "as long as they need to be."

"I think people are grieving and processing," Stene said. "I think folks will be out here as long as they need to be."

City, state officials defend Renee Nicole Good

State Rep. Leigh Finke said in a statementobtained by the New York Timesthat Good was a cherished Minnesotan and a "loved and celebrated community member, who has now been stripped from her family."

City Mayor Jacob Frey said that he was "deeply sorry" to Good's family.

"There are no words that can make this moment better," he said. "Our hearts are with you."

Contributing: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY; Corey Schmidt, St. Cloud Times, part of the USA TODAY Network

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