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It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 structures and killing 42 people, Sonoma County officials said Saturday. "We don't control these things, and it makes you realize how small you are in the world when something like this happens," Sheriff Rob Giordano said.
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.
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.
Top U.S. House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and five other members of Congress plan to tour wildfire-ravaged Northern California on Saturday as families and communities begin the long process of rebuilding. Pelosi, of San Francisco, will spend a day touring the fire zones and meeting with officials and victims alongside Rep. Mike Thompson, who represents the city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, the hardest-hit areas in the fires.
In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, the remains of the Signorello Estate winery continue to smolder in Napa, Calif. Top U.S. House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and five other members of Congress plan to tour wildfire-ravaged Northern California on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, as families and communities begin the long process of rebuilding.
President Donald Trump is declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency, and says it's sparing "no part" of the United States. Trump has made that announcement at the White House - and he says the scourge affects rural areas and cities, rich people and the poor, and the elderly and newborns.
The latest Harvard-Harris poll , conducted between October 14 and October 18, affirms that voters are increasingly favoring Sen. Bernie Sanders and progressivism while President Donald Trump's favorability continues its downward spiral. Sanders' total favorability in this latest poll is 53 percent, and it is highest among hispanics and African-Americans .
Lawyers representing 18 states and the District of Columbia will ask a federal judge in California to block the Trump administration from terminating cost-sharing subsidies aimed at helping lower income individuals afford health insurance. Judge Vince Chhabria of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, could rule on the motion for a temporary restraining order as early as this week.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton told California Republicans they should expect better days ahead, in part, because of liberal overreach by California Democrats on taxes, immigration and other issues affecting the daily lives of working-class Americans. Cotton invoked the memory of former president and California governor Ronald Reagan as a guiding light, and ridiculed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a harbinger of doom.
President Donald Trump, seen here Monday at the White House Rose Garden with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has rankled senators with his shifting policy views. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray went to bed Tuesday evening thinking they had hit a home run.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump moved to undermine Obamacare dramatically late on Thursday by cutting off subsidies to health insurance companies for low-income patients, sparking threats of legal action and concern of chaos in insurance markets. The decision is the most dramatic action Trump has taken yet to weaken the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which extended insurance to 20 million Americans.
In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will "immediately" halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months. The Health and Human Services department made the announcement in a statement late Thursday night.
A Democratic congressman stopped just short of forcing a House vote on President Trump's impeachment Wednesday, pulling back under apparent pressure from his own party. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, read his impeachment resolution on the House floor Wednesday afternoon, bringing it up under rules that would force a rapid vote.
A House Democrat offered a resolution Wednesday to impeach President Trump but let it die before action was taken, saying he would force a vote later. The move by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, edged his party toward a confrontation craved by some of its most liberal supporters but opposed by many others - including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi - who consider it ill-advised and premature.
Massive wildfires continue to sweep through Northern California's wine region, forcing emergency evacuations and destroying more than 2,000 buildings. The fires began Sunday evening, though the initial cause is under investigation.
President Donald Trump's long list of immigration demands has landed with a thud among lawmakers hopeful for a deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The list of demands released late Sunday includes funding for a southern border wall and a crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities - items that are cheered by the president's most loyal supporters, but are non-starters among Democrats and could divide Republicans, who will have to come together on any deal.
Much has been written, with good reason, about the dysfunction of the GOP majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and States Senate, but it does seem that they are not alone in being a party in conflict. As The Washington Post reported last week, "A senior House Democrat said Thursday that it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and two top lieutenants to prepare to step down and make way for the next generation of lawmakers in her caucus."
A top House Democrat says it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to get out of Washington. Veuer's Nick Cardona (@nickcardona93) has that story.