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Crowd caught on camera going wild after Trump stops by Las Vegas casino floor: 'USA! USA!'

President Donald Trump shocked gamblers in Las Vegas when he unexpectedly dropped by a casino floor on Saturday.

Prior to the surprise visit, Trump had addressed thousands of supporters at the Circa Resort & Casino in Sin City on Saturday afternoon. Photos and video show Trump strolling around the casino floor after the speech, while surrounded by security.

The crowd began chanting "USA! USA!" as Trump walked past the slot machines. The president was also seen briefly interacting with enthused gamblers.

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The president also naturally walked up to a craps table where a game was in progress, telling a player to "throw the dice."

When journalists shouted questions at Trump, a craps player scolded the press pool and told them, "I'm rolling here." Trump told a gambler that he was "doing a good job" before leaving.

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Trump also said thank you to staff workers holding water trays, shortly after his speech focused on reducing federal taxes for hospitality workers with his "no tax on tips" campaign promise.

"Any worker who relies on tips [as] income, your tips will be 100% yours," Trump said to a cheering audience during the speech.

"Nationwide, over four million workers depend on tip income, including an estimated 700,000 single moms…here in Nevada…think of it, a quarter of the typical restaurant workers' pay comes from tips. I didn't know that," he added.

Fox News' Sarah Tobianski and Sophia Compton contributed to this report.

Petition demanding resignation of LA Mayor Karen Bass signed by more than 92,000

More than 92,000 people have signed a Change.org petition as of Sunday morning demanding the resignation of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as wildfires in the area continue to rage on. 

The petition was started by a user named "Frustrated Californian" who accused Bass of "gross mismanagement" during the natural disaster crisis, and even called her out for not being in the country when the fires started.

Bass took major heat for traveling overseas to Ghana last week, which meant she was thousands of miles away from her city during the initial day of the destruction on Tuesday. 

"Water supplies have been severely strained, billions of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated or left unaccounted for, and countless lives have been lost," the petition reads. 

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There are currently five active wildfires in Los Angeles County — Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth, Hurst and Archer.

Bass has been active on social media since her return to the U.S., with her latest post on X and Facebook on Saturday evening.

"Angelenos, we're still going through it and to any of you and all of you that have experienced a loss, the grief, the anger, the just utter shock. I've seen the devastation. It is unbelievable the amount of loss that people have experienced, but we have to get through this crisis and I know that we will," she said in a minute-long video.  

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Prior to drawing intense public scrutiny for her response to handling the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, Bass was held in the highest esteem by the Democratic Party’s most prominent figures.

President Biden once considered Bass to be a top contender for his vice presidential running mate in 2020, while former President Barack Obama previously predicted that she would be an "outstanding mayor" of the city.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton and Jillian Michaels are among vocal celebrities providing government officials with scathing reviews.

"This disaster did not come out of left field," Aurora Culpo, host of the podcast "Barely Filtered," told Fox News Digital. "We were well aware of the possibility for fire, and we had the preparedness of a third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in the world. Those in power should be forced to take responsibility and resign."

FOX News' Gabriel Hays and Gabrielle Regalbuto contributed to this report. 

California wildfires: Single mom who lost everything in Eaton Fire hails Altadena’s ‘tenacity’ and ‘spirit’

A California single mother who lost everything in Altadena this week during the Eaton Fire is hailing her community’s resilience, telling Fox News Digital that "we have not lost our tenacity and our spirit." 

Brenda King said Friday that she has lived in California and Los Angeles for more than 20 years, but she "always knew there was something so special about the energy of Altadena," describing it as a "paradise because of all the tender love and care that all of the citizens put into it and the way they preserved everything." 

"The day the fire broke out, it's so bizarre because literally I just figured it out. I had just figured out a little promotion for myself at work," the writer and intimacy coordinator told Fox News Digital, mentioning how her 5-year-old son was going to get his own room in the property she was renting. 

King recalls finding her son his "first big boy bed" on Facebook Marketplace and organizing his toys and favorite books on a shelf. Yet that vision was cut short when the Eaton Fire started bearing down on her home. 

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King told Fox News Digital that she was out with a friend and was driving when "suddenly I see what looks like hell opening up on the mountain." 

"Just this long line, going from the top and coming towards my house. And we were just looking at it and I was like, ‘Oh my God, where is that? That's so close to my house,'" she continued. 

"I was like, ‘They're going to get this under control, but I just have to go home and get my dog,’" she added. 

King says she returned to her home to save her pet, grab a few of her son’s possessions and other items, including photo albums from her childhood. 

She then fled Altadena, but later called a neighbor whose father remained there "and she just said, 'OK Brenda, it's gone. Everything's gone.' And I just couldn't believe it." 

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King says despite losing her home and nearly all of her possessions, the community she was a part of in Altadena "doesn’t go away." 

"I was watching the news and I was watching my beloved city just burning everywhere," King told Fox News Digital. "And the news reporter -- I don't even think she was a resident of Altadena, but she was saying that she had been in other fire zones and she was just astonished that so many people were there and they were still helping and they were putting water on their neighbor’s lawns and they were just still there fighting to preserve whatever is left of our city, which is essentially nothing except our lives."  

"People have lost their lives in Altadena. And I am so wretchedly sorry for that. But we have not lost our tenacity and our spirit," King said. 

A GoFundMe titled "Help Brenda Rebuild After Wildfire Loss" has now been set up to help King in the wake of the tragedy. 

"I've lived in so many different places, and Altadena was my heart," King told Fox News Digital. "I've never found happiness and community and love anywhere else in L.A. the way that I personally found it there." 

Los Angeles wildfires leave 10 dead as details emerge about victims

The wildfires raging through Los Angeles County Friday have killed at least 10 as details are emerging about the victims, including one reported to have been found clutching a garden hose in his hand while trying to defend his family home of more than 50 years. 

Victor Shaw, 66, was identified by KTLA as one of the fatalities from the devastating Eaton Fire centered around the city of Pasadena. His sister Shari told the station that Victor said he wanted to stay behind Tuesday night to try to fight the flames, but a family friend said his body was discovered the next day on the side of a road with a hose. 

"They just told me that he was lying on the ground and that he looked serene, as if he was at peace," Shari Shaw told KTLA. 

The five wildfires active in Los Angeles County on Friday – the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Kenneth Fire, Hurst Fire and Lidia Fire, have so far burned more than 30,000 combined acres, according to Cal Fire. 

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The agency says the largest – the Palisades Fire – has scorched nearly 20,000 acres and is only 6% contained. Across the county, more than 10,000 homes and businesses have been burned. 

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man on Thursday who was allegedly "attempting to light a fire," as wildfires continued to ravage the area.

The government has not yet released figures on the cost of the damage. 

Right now, it’s impossible to quantify the extent of the destruction other than "total devastation and loss," Barbara Bruderlin, head of the Malibu Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, told The Associated Press. 

"There are areas where everything is gone, there isn’t even a stick of wood left, it’s just dirt," Bruderlin said. 

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday night that it has "received notification of 10 fire-related deaths." At least five have been reported from the Eaton Fire and two from the Palisades Fire. 

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Two of the dead in Altadena were Anthony Mitchell, a 67-year-old amputee, and his son, Justin, who had cerebral palsy. They were waiting for an ambulance to come and did not make it to safety when the flames roared through, Mitchell’s daughter, Hajime White, told The Washington Post. 

Rodney Nickerson, an 83-year-old grandfather, was also found dead in Altadena, according to CBS News. 

"We found his bones, his whole body was intact," his daughter Kimiko said to the station, which reported that Nickerson was discovered in his bed among the rubble and ash. 

Another victim was identified by the New York Times as Erliene Kelley, a retired pharmacy technician who reportedly lived near Shaw and Nickerson. 

"She was an angel," neighbor Terry Pyburn told the newspaper. "That’s the perfect neighbor. When you see her, you have a smile." 

Fox News’ Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

2 dead after search for Sasquatch in Washington national forest

Two men from Portland died searching for Sasquatch during Christmas week, according to officials.

Around 1 a.m. on Christmas Day, Skamania County Communications Center received a report from a family member of two people who were searching for Sasquatch and were missing after they had planned to return home on Dec. 24, according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO).

A "flock camera," also known as a license plate reader, located the men's car off of Oklahoma Road, near Willard, Washington, SCSO said.

Over three days, search and rescue resources, including more than 60 volunteers, canines, drones and ground search teams and a U.S. Coast Guard air asset searched for the men. 

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"After a grueling, three-day search over difficult terrain and harsh weather conditions, the 59-year-old male and 37-year-old-male, both from Portland, Oregon, who were reported missing/endangered were located, deceased, in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest," the sheriff's office said on Facebook.

"Both deaths appear to be due to exposure, based on weather conditions and ill-preparedness," SCSO added.

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The sheriff's office thanked the volunteers who spent Christmas week searching for the men through "freezing temperatures, snow, high water levels, heavy rain, downfall, and heavily wooded terrain," allowing the men to be taken home to their family. 

"The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office extends our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the loved ones lost in this tragic incident," SCSO said.

The men's names were not released. 

Back in 2019, a Travel Channel blog post said Washington was the "world's most active region" for Sasquatch sightings. Of particular note were the Blue Mountains and Okanogan County, which the Travel Channel wrote is "the locale of one of the most aggressive Bigfoot encounters ever recorded."

Colorado ski resort gondola malfunctions, 174 rescued: 'Once-in-a-lifetime-experience'

More than 170 people were rescued from dangling gondolas at a Colorado ski resort after being trapped for hours due to a malfunction. 

A crack detected in a metal support structure prompted one of the lifts at Winter Park Resort outside of Denver to automatically shut down Saturday afternoon for safety precautions, according to media reports. It then took rescuers five hours to lower 174 people to the ground, a resort spokesperson told KDVR. 

"We were going up to do our first run, my wife and I, and we stopped. Stopped for about 15 minutes and we started kind of thinking, maybe it’s unusual," skier Aleksey Dmitriyev said to the station. "I called the line, and the line saying if it’s less than 20 minutes don’t worry, call us back… Then we waited a bit longer and we started seeing ski patrol coming down and talking to people from the ground to the cabin, like saying how many of you in the cabin, all that." 

"Everybody was pretty calm, ski patrol was calm and professional and assured us," he added. "It was kind of interesting because he kind of knew what he was doing, but we were a little bit concerned." 

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"We skied a few runs after that, we used a different lift, of course, and it was still an OK day but once-in-a-lifetime experience," Dmitriyev also told KDVR. 

Dmitriyev captured video showing a rescuer lowering himself into his stranded gondola’s cabin. 

"We are going to send a seat up, we are each going to get in a seat individually and slowly lower everyone down," the man says. 

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The footage then shows multiple people – including a child – being brought down to safety. 

Winter Park Resort said the lift remained closed Sunday for repairs and inspections and the gondola manufacturer was on-site, according to KDVR. 

As of late Sunday, a new part had been installed and testing is underway in preparation to reopen the lift, the station adds. 

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