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After enduring weeks of destructive fires, widespread blackouts and extreme weather conditions, California faced another test as powerful winds that forecasters described as historic and potentially disastrous moved into the Southland. The Santa Ana winds of 50 to 70 mph, with isolated gusts of 80 mph, will be the strongest to hit the region in recent memory and sparked urgent preparations for more potential fires and evacuations. They are expected…

Video Michelle Obama leads hypothetical 2020 poll What does this say about the actual 2020 field? Reaction and analysis on ‘The Five.’ White Americans are “still running” elsewhere when minorities and immigrants move into their communities, Michelle Obama observed Tuesday. The former first lady made the remarks at the Obama Foundation Summit, held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In a sit-down interview with journalist Isabel Wilkerson, in…

House Democrats are getting ready to hold the first floor vote about impeachment since launching the inquiry. CBS News White House correspondent Ben Tracy, New York TImes chief Washington correspondent Carl Hulse, and Politico foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi join “Red and Blue” to discuss where the investigation is heading.

New York City’s former chief medical examiner insisted Wednesday that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a homicide. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden was hired by the pedophile’s brother, Mark Epstein, to observe his autopsy after he was found hanged in his Manhattan lockup in August. “I think that the evidence points toward homicide rather than suicide,” Baden insisted on Fox News Wednesday. “The brother is concerned that if [Epstein] was murdered,…

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LOS ANGELES — A tree branch crashing on to power lines ignited the wind-driven Getty Fire that forced evacuation of more than 7,000 homes, fire officials have confirmed. “The fire was deemed an accidental start, caused by a tree branch that broke off and subsequently landed in nearby power lines during high wind conditions,” Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said. “This errant tree branch caused the sparking and arcing of the…

Livingston, a former Republican congressman from Louisiana, was chosen as the successor to Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House in 1999, but he declined the position after revelations of an extramarital affair. After leaving Congress, he formed the Livingston Group, one of Washington’s most influential lobbying firms. His firm has represented clients in the Middle East and around the world, including political figures in Ukraine such as former prime…

Former President Barack Obama laid into call-out culture Tuesday in a speech at the Obama Foundation summit. “I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough,” Obama said. “That is not activism, that is not bringing about change,” he said. “The…

The changing landscape also threw a wrench into U.S. plans targeting the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The U.S. had to speed up the raid, and the Kurds, feeling betrayed, suspended their crucial security cooperation. Al-Baghdadi was killed despite the obstacles.

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Dashcam video shows the moment the Getty Fire sparked up near the 405 Freeway as a tree branch hit a city power line. Investigators have determined that high winds carried a tree branch into a Department of Water and Power line, setting off an electrical arc and sending sparks to the ground that ignited the blaze. The video from a car driving along the 405 Freeway…

Video Are Democrats’ impeachment proceedings infringing on due process rights? House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise weigh in on impeachment inquiry. Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, accused the panel’s Democrat chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, of coaching a Trump impeachment inquiry witness during closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill. “I have never in my life anything like what happened today,”…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed on Tuesday over questions about the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The skirmish revealed a growing dispute between the two sides, as Republicans say they need to hear from the intelligence official who initially raised the alarm over Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals in order to assess…

After a relatively calm day on the fire lines in Southern California, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office has issued a rare, if not unprecedented, “extreme red flag warning” for L.A. and Ventura counties tonight (see it here). The alert comes ahead of what authorities are calling “the most significant wind event over the past few years,” which is expected to begin around 11 p.m. The warning runs through…

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…

Because of Santa Ana winds expected to continue late Tuesday evening through Thursday, Southern California could experience “an extreme fire weather threat, with conditions as dangerous for fire growth and behavior as we have seen in recent memory,” according to the National Weather Service. Red-flag warnings are posted for large portions of California in anticipation of dry, gusty, northeast winds as a weather system drops into the Great Basin region….

The White House on Tuesday asserted that House Democrats’ resolution outlining impeachment procedures proves that the process has been an “illegitimate sham” in the five weeks since it started. “The resolution put forward by Speaker Pelosi confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote,” White House press secretary Stephanie GrishamStephanie GrishamPress: Baby Donald throws a temper…

Video Marc Thiessen questions whether Joe Biden would have given order to get al-Baghdadi Former Vice President Joe Biden was the only member of Barack Obama’s national security team that opposed the mission to kill Usama bin Laden, notes Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Marc Thiessen pushed back Tuesday on former Vice President Joe Biden over his refusal to give President Trump credit…