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Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, says Northern California's wildfires that destroyed 8,900 buildings and killed 42 people can serve as a national model for disaster response. Pelosi, of San Francisco, is joining other members of Congress on Saturday touring Sonoma and Napa counties, which were hard hit by the nearly two dozen fires that raged for more than a week in mid-October.
New Orleans attorney Derrick Edwards signed up as the only Democratic candidate to run for state treasurer on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Baton Rouge. All the major candidates for the vacant seat qualified for the Oct. 14 ballot on the opening day of the sign-up period.
Laura Schulze, above, holds her son Zachary, 8, during the Day of Remembrance at Santa Rosa Junior Col lege, where hundreds of community members, officials and first responders gathered in Bailey Field, below. Laura Schulze, above, holds her son Zachary, 8, during the Day of Remembrance at Santa Rosa Junior Col lege, where hundreds of community members, officials and first responders gathered in Bailey Field, below.
Hundreds of volunteers from across Maryland worked side-by-side to harvest more than 20,000 pounds of potatoes Saturday afternoon to directly support the ongoing hurricane recovery effort in Texas. Volunteers who represent a variety of groups and organizations, including schools, churches, businesses, even the US Coast Guard began harvesting the potatoes around 9 a.m. At 3 p.m. a tractor-trailer was loaded with 400 bags of potatoes, equating to more than 20,000 pounds for Hurricane Harvey relief.
This Monday the Knesset reassembled for its winter session after a long vacation. On such occasions, the president of the state and the prime minister are invited to speak.
A member of the special forces' Counter-Terrorism Service stands in front of a billboard bearing the logo of the Islamic State group in Mosul's eastern district of Mohandessin on January 19, 2017, during an ongoing military operation against IS jihadists. Iraqi forces battled the last holdout jihadists in east Mosul after commanders declared victory there and set their sights on the city's west, where more tough fighting awaits.
In Britain late last week, Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, described Donald Trump as a "daft twerp." Soames rightly was objecting to a Trump tweet that tried to link a 13 percent rise in the crime rate in England and Wales to radical Islamic terrorism, a notion that the president may have picked up .
One of the most stunning parts of the White House's debacle over Donald Trump's recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies. One of the most stunning parts of the White House's debacle over Donald Trump 's recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies.
The booking of Justin Timberlake for the Super Bowl halftime show has triggered a backlash from women, minorities and others. The booking of Justin Timberlake for the Super Bowl halftime show has triggered a backlash from women, minorities and others.
Rep. Frederica S. Wilson has avoided Washington, D.C., in recent days because sheA a a s received A a A"racist and rudeA a A threats following her clash with President Donald Trump and members of his administration. Wilson was the congresswoman riding in a limo alongside Myeshia Johnson when Trump called the widow to issue condolences on the death of her husband, Sgt.
The Senate intelligence committee, as part of its ongoing investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal, has completed interviews with several key participants in the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and members of Trump's inner circle. Yet so far it has not questioned Donald Trump Jr., who organized the gathering, hoping to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what he was told was a secret Russian government effort to help Donald Trump win the White House.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged "at least one person" in connection with the Russia investigation, which is surprisingly quick work for a special counsel. So who is it? The speed of the action suggests to me either it's a fairly minor character or it's a major character whose actions were so obviously illegal that it didn't take much time to build a case.
Officials say the Thunder's charter plane suffered a major dent to the nose of the plane early Saturday morning. According to a report by ESPN, the flight was a little turbulent but players didn't realize anything was wrong.
Some called for Trump to fire Mueller and investigate him, while others said the focus should be on the "Clinton administration." On Friday, CNN reported that a federal grand jury approved the first charges special counsel Robert Mueller had filed as part of the Russia investigation - and President Donald Trump's closest allies melted down.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told county commissioners Friday that Obama has been summoned for jury duty next month in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS-TV. Obama plans to serve as juror, according to WLS-TV.
Any of these titles would suit the 2020 White House race if we start electing Presidents the way Denis Leary suggests. In his book "Why We Don't Suck," Leary proposes officially turning the election into a reality show.
Sen. Ron Wyden , a Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is demanding that national security leaders adopt a plan to protect the personal devices and internet accounts of top Trump administration officials. Mr. Wyden of Oregon wrote the acting director of the Department of Homeland Security and the head of the National Security Agency on Friday urging them to work together to ensure senior White House officials are safeguarded from cyberattacks after malware was reportedly found recently on Chief of Staff John F. Kelly's personal cell phone.
Two women from Hawaii who were lost at sea for nearly five months have been rescued by the US Navy. Jennifer Appel, Tasha Fuiava and their two dogs were found Wednesday, drifting about 900 miles southeast of Japan, a Navy statement said.
Nearly everyone - 97 percent of players - knew where Sgt. La David Johnson and three other American soldiers were killed in action. class="container-fluid answers">Only about 40 percent knew that Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) withdrew as President Trump's pick to be drug czar.