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Firefighters gained some ground on a blaze burning in the heart of California's wine country but face another tough day ahead with low humidity ... . FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, people walk past a fallen transformer and downed power lines on Parker Hill Road in Santa Rosa, Calif.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to reverse a recent decision to delay the regulation of e-cigarettes. The New York Democrat said Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration should reconsider its decision announced earlier this year to put regulating electronic cigarettes on hold.
The California wildfires raced toward wineries and the historic town of Sonoma on Saturday, chasing hundreds more people from their homes and threatening to roll back firefighters' modest gains against fires that stretched across a 100-mile swath of Northern California. Propelled by stiff winds, the fires damaged or destroyed several buildings in the middle of the night before crews halted their advance at the edge of Sonoma, where firefighters spent days digging firebreaks to keep flames from reaching the city's historic central plaza built centuries ago when the area was under Spanish rule.
On the mid-August day when President Donald Trump first called the nation's opioid epidemic a "national emergency," plaudits from the state's congressional delegation were quick to follow. Sen. Sherrod Brown, DOhio, said the designation was overdue.
Laura Frances Weyl and Richard Louis Kimmel were married Oct. 14 at the Elizabeth Street Garden in New York. Robert Kimmel, the groom's father, who is ordained by the Universal Life Church, officiated.
Stories of some people who lived through the inferno by standi... . Sonoma firefighter Pete Avencino launches an incendiary device during a backburn operation Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Glen Ellen, Calif.
California politician Maxine Waters said there is now sufficient evidence collected by the Russia probe that Congress "should be moving towards impeachment". An investigation is currently underway in the US examining the role, if any, Russia played in influencing the 2016 Presidential elections.
Newly released body camera footage shows a sheriff's deputy braving flames to rescue a disabled woman and get people to flee from a lethal wildfire that was about to devour a Northern California community. Sonoma County announced Saturday evening that its coroner had confirmed two more deaths, taking the total in the county to 22 and the overall count to 40. A residence in the hills above Sonoma, Calif., has a posted sign alerting people to an available pool if needed to shelter from wildfires Friday, Oct. 13, 2017.
Gov. Rick Scott received generally high marks for his handling of the hurricanes hitting Florida and its sister territory, Puerto Rico, but his PR team lately has been working ferociously to push back against assorted reports raising questions about his emergency management record before and after the storms hit. Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio joined calls for a congressional investigation into the deaths of 14 Floridians in a sweltering Broward County nursing home.
Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more Californians to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll from the deadliest blaze recorded in the state's history rose to at least 38, with hundreds of people still missing. About 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters overhead were battling 16 major wildfires, some encompassing several smaller merged blazes, in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres over seven days, or roughly 334 square miles - an area larger than New York City.
Stories of some people who lived through the inferno by standi... . Sonoma firefighter Pete Avencino launches an incendiary device during a backburn operation Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Glen Ellen, Calif.
Authorities say about 100,000 people are under evacuation orders as the wildfires in Northern California burn for a sixth day. As a flare-up drives hundreds more to flee on Saturday, some people who have been evacuated all week are demanding to get back into their homes.
During an interview on MSNBC, Waters went after members of Congress who she says are watching "the damage" Trump is doing in the country and not speaking up. "To watch him just guide us into a possible war and not speak up because they're concerned about their reelection is not responsible," she said during the interview.
In the sixteenth century, the French called venereal disease the "pox of Naples," blaming unclean Italians for the spread of the sexually transmitted infection. The people of Italy differed in their diagnosis, nicknaming VD, "the French disease."
The Virgin Islands don't have a president; they have a governor, Kenneth Mapp, with whom Trump met 10 days ago US President Donald Trump has spoken about another US territory struck by hurricanes as if it's a foreign country. He said in a speech at the Values Voters Summit on Friday that he met with the "president" of the US Virgin Islands.
Celine Dion pledges proceeds from her show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace to the families of the victims of the mass shooting Oct. 1 in Las Vegas. Readers say it is time for substantial gun control legislation.
It's time to build the wall - and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 690,000 DACA "Dreamers" from being deported from the United States. It's a fair deal that could be scuttled only by intense and self-serving partisanship from the White House and the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership.
A helicopter flies through the smokey sky to drop a load of water on a wildfire Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Sonoma, Calif. Officials say progress is being made in some of the largest wildfires burning in Northern California but that the death toll is almost sure to surge.