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Rep. Mark Meadows closes his eyes as he walks past the casket after speaking during memorial services for his close friend Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Joshua Roberts/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joshua Roberts/Pool/Getty Images Rep. Mark Meadows closes his eyes as he walks past the casket after speaking during memorial services for his close friend Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill on Thursday….

A fast-moving wildfire spurred by powerful winds tore across northeastern Sonoma County early Thursday, burning more than 10,000 acres and forcing the evacuation of up to 2,000 residents — including the entire town of Geyserville. While the cause of the fire was not immediately known, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials said that high-voltage power transmission lines — the kind of of equipment that started last year’s devastating Camp Fire…

There were varying reports on damage. Cal Fire said in a 7 a.m. update that the blaze, burning in an area where PG&E had shut off power Wednesday afternoon due to the onset of gusty winds and plummeting humidity, had damaged two structures. But social media posts from journalists in the area showed residences that had been destroyed in the fire. Cal Fire incident commander Mike Parkes said at a…

Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland and a Brexit foe, tweeted Thursday, “So Johnson appears to be saying to MPs ‘if you vote for an election, I’ll bring back my bad Brexit bill and try to drag us out of the E.U. before we go to the polls’. Elections should be exercises in letting voters decide, not devices for charlatans to get their own way.”

Video Hannity: Secret impeachment coup cannot stand GOP lawmakers interrupt closed-door impeachment deposition. Sean Hannity delivered a “warning” to House Democrats Wednesday night over their impeachment pursuit and on the heels of House Republicans protest of the inquiry. “Now, let this be a very clear warning to [Rep.  Adam] Schiff, and [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and Democrats everywhere,” Hannity said on his television program. “Well, this secret Soviet-style impeachment coup attempt, this cannot stand. We do have…

Here’s what you need to know to understand the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. How we got here: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an official impeachment inquiry against President Trump on Sept. 24, 2019. Here’s what has happened since then. What’s happening now: Lawmakers are conducting an inquiry, which could lead to impeachment. An impeachment would mean the U.S. House thinks the president is no longer fit…

Here are the latest updates on the Kincade fire burning in northeast Sonoma County. 6:26 a.m. The entire town of Geyserville has been ordered to evacuate, according to an alert from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. The Kincade fire burning north of town is at 10,000 acres. Evacuation centers are at the Healdsburg Community Center and Windsor High School. 4:42 a.m. The Kincade fire has now spread to…

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, along with former first lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will attend Rep. Elijah Cummings’ funeral in Baltimore on Friday as the nation bids farewell to the Maryland Democrat who served on Capitol Hill 23 years.  Spokeswoman Katie Hill confirmed that Obama would attend in a tweet Wednesday night. She said Cummings’ widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, asked Obama to “deliver remarks about the remarkable…

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was worried about how to deal with pressure from the Trump administration to investigate Joe Biden in early May — about two weeks before he was inaugurated, a new report said Wednesday. Zelensky had gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kiev for a meeting that was supposed to be about his nation’s energy needs. Instead, the group spent most of the three-hour…

Facebook could withdraw from the Libra Association — the governing body of the eponymous stablecoin project — should it launch without approval from regulators in the United States.  Libra could lose its primary member In a Congressional hearing on Oct. 23, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg reiterated the company’s commitment to not launch its planned cryptocurrency project until it receives the green light from U.S. regulators. Zuckerberg delivered his…

WASHINGTON – Having attacked some of his critics as “Do Nothing Democrats,” President Donald Trump reserved a harsher term Wednesday for “Never Trumper Republicans” who continue to opposed him amid an impeachment inquiry.  “Human scum.” “The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Watch out for them, they are…

The price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tanked today, continuing a months-long slide that has seen the value of the digital currency slide by more than $2,000 from highs of above $10,000 earlier in the year. Investors are still speculating about the cause of the crash, but hopeful cryptocurrency bulls before today had hoped that $8,000 would be the new floor for Bitcoin. No longer. Today the price of Bitcoin…

California’s largest utility is under severe scrutiny by state regulators and customers overs its rolling blackouts that have left millions of people without power. Just two weeks after a massive power shut-off that the company acknowledged it mishandled, Pacific Gas & Electric announced on Wednesday that it will cut electricity to 179,000 customers in California in the face of a new wildfire threat. Southern California Edison, the state’s second-largest investor-owned…

The decision, by U.S. District Judge Christopher R. “Casey” Cooper of Washington, D.C., came in a public records lawsuit filed Oct. 1 by a government watchdog group, American Oversight.

A former staffer for Rep. Devin NunesDevin Gerald Nunes10 top Republicans who continue to deny the undeniable A Republican Watergate veteran’s perspective on a Trump impeachment Meet the lawyer at center of whistleblower case: ‘It is an everyday adventure’ MORE (R-Calif.) who joined the White House in February was reportedly so deeply involved in feeding President TrumpDonald John TrumpGraham to introduce resolution condemning House impeachment inquiry Support for impeachment inches up…

The request came from three Democratic committee leaders guiding the inquiry: Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee; Representative Eliot L. Engel, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, the acting chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee. “These documents include information central to the inquiry’s core area of investigation: the president’s efforts to press Ukraine to initiate investigations that would benefit…