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LOS ANGELES — Less than two weeks after it was slammed for cutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers to prevent wildfires, California’s biggest utility said Monday it will likely have to do it again this week. Pacific Gas & Electric Corp., or PG&E, said at a hastily arranged late afternoon news conference that it was calling, emailing and texting more than 200,000 customers in 15 Northern California…

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…

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Democrats in the House turned aside a GOP-led privileged resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffTrump lashes out at Pelosi as she visits Jordan to discuss Syria Trump’s insult-comic act enters danger zone  White House staggers after tumultuous 48 hours MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday in a straight party-line 218-185 vote. Republicans and President TrumpDonald John TrumpZuckerberg launches public defense of Facebook as attacks mount Trump leaning…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpZuckerberg launches public defense of Facebook as attacks mount Trump leaning toward keeping a couple hundred troops in eastern Syria: report Warren says making Israel aid conditional on settlement building is ‘on the table’ MORE delivered a pointed message Monday to Republicans beginning to break from their White House ally amid Democrats’ escalating impeachment investigation: Fight harder for me. “Republicans have to get tougher and fight,” Trump…

Video Former Clinton adviser on Hillary accusing rivals of being Russian assets Reaction and analysis from former Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ Former Hillary Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein defended the former secretary of state Monday and her accusation that Democratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Russia while appearing on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “What’s inexplicable, though, is she’s the only Democrat that interviewed for Donald…

“But in the meantime, North Korea, I like Kim, he likes me. We get along. I respect him, he respects me. ‘You could end up in a war.’ President Obama told me that. He said, ‘The biggest problem, I don’t know how to solve it.’ He told me he doesn’t know how to solve it. I said, ‘Did you ever call him?’ ‘No.’ Actually, he tried 11 times. But the…

Oil fields in other parts of Syria, including the Euphrates River valley and northeastern Syria, were under the control of the SDF — and in some places, secured alongside U.S. troops or American contractors, he said. Together, the fields in those regions could produce perhaps 60,000 barrels a day, but it was unclear how much, if any, is being produced at present, he said.

Andrew Scheer, now Canada’s Conservative leader, is up against a humbled incumbent: Justin Trudeau and his fading political brand. In a recent Forum Research poll, Scheer’s approval rating comes in at just 27 per cent with Trudeau still hanging on to an approval rating 12 per cent higher. It’s not hard to figure out why. Scheer’s message during this campaign was simple and stinging: You can’t trust Justin Trudeau. But in earnest,…

Women stand outside a house damaged by a tornado Sunday night in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas. The city was still cleaning up on Monday. LM Otero/AP hide caption toggle caption LM Otero/AP Women stand outside a house damaged by a tornado Sunday night in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas. The city was still cleaning up on Monday. LM Otero/AP Local officials and emergency response personnel in Dallas…

Video Trump weighs in on Clinton-Gabbard feud President Trump says that Hillary Clinton labels anyone that opposes her as a Russian agent; reaction and analysis from the ‘Special Report’ All-Stars. The New York Times was widely criticized on Monday for what was described as a “puff piece” about Hillary Clinton over her recent attacks on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and President Trump, suggesting she’s a “master troll.” In an analysis piece…

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Last year in January, Mr. Ghani, perceiving that Mr. Trump urgently wanted to cut costs in Afghanistan, said he would be happy to directly negotiate some degree of troop reductions with the Americans if they would avoid rushing into a bad deal with the Taliban. General Miller had long set out a goal of an 8,600-member troop force as being both a desired level and as the minimum needed to…

President Donald Trump is prepared to use military force if “needed,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday when he was asked about Turkey’s attack on Kurds in northern Syria. “We prefer peace to war,” Pompeo told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost in a taped interview that aired on “Closing Bell” on Monday. “But in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed, you should know that President Trump is…

Negotiators for the two parties met in several sessions without progress. Gantz, after an initial meeting with the prime minister, spurned numerous invitations from Netanyahu to negotiate one-on-one. Gantz insisted that his rival was less interested in compromise than in ensuring he would serve first in any power-sharing rotation. Netanyahu, who could be indicted as early as November, was more keen on “immunity” than unity, Gantz said. 

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