Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. Read more on NPR

Wild weather brings snow to the South and Santa Ana winds to the West As the South prepped for snow and more cold starting Wednesday, residents in Southern California faced off with hurricane-strength winds. Read more on NPR

What to know about Trump and his keen interest in Greenland President-elect Donald Trump has said multiple times that the U.S. should buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. The sparsely populated island is geopolitically important and mineral-rich. Read more on NPR

‘Life threatening’ windstorm triggers wildfire in Southern California Southern California hasn’t seen significant rainfall since last April, and a pileup of dry fuel in combination with the winds has the region on edge. A mandatory evacuation order was issued for the Palisades. Read more on NPR

Florida judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon ordered the Justice Department not to share Jack Smith’s final report until a federal appeals court resolves the legal fight. Read more on NPR

NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars. Read more on NPR

Trump in news conference says ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages not released The president-elect made a similar pledge on social media in early December. His latest comments came during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago. Read more on NPR

Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company’s previous content moderation policies “censorship,” repeating talking points from President-elect Donald Trump and his allies. Read more on NPR

The U.S. says Sudan’s rebel forces have committed genocide The Biden administration said the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces group and its proxies are committing genocide in a civil war with the country’s military that has killed tens of thousands of people. Read more on NPR

A Dutch project publicizes the names of half a million suspected Nazi collaborators The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past. Read more on NPR