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SAN FRANCISCO— A gas explosion in a San Francisco neighborhood shot flames into the air Wednesday and burned five buildings, sending panicked residents and workers fleeing into the streets. Utility crews put out the fire about three hours after private construction workers cut a natural gas line, igniting the towering flames, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. Authorities initially said five workers were missing, but the entire construction crew…

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Video Schiff announces investigation into President Trump ‘beyond Russia’ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff looks to expand scope of Russia probe; Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy reacts. One day after President Trump decried what he called “the politics of revenge” and “partisan investigations” in his State of the Union address, Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced a new, wide-ranging probe into the president’s foreign business dealings and Russian…

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax speaks to the media Monday in Richmond, Va., about the sexual assault allegation from 2004. Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax speaks to the media Monday in Richmond, Va., about the sexual assault allegation from 2004. Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 7:05 p.m. ET The woman who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault…

What is indisputable, however, is that Klobuchar’s office consistently has one of the highest rates of staff turnover in the Senate. From 2001 to 2016, she ranked No. 1 in the Senate for staff turnover as measured by LegiStorm, a widely used database of congressional staff salaries. She’s now third, behind Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen and Louisiana Republican John Kennedy. 

The governor of New Mexico ordered the state’s National Guard to withdraw a majority of its troops from the southern border, slamming what she called President Donald Trump’s “charade” shortly before his State of the Union address on Tuesday. “New Mexico will not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement. Lujan Grisham, who…

Citizens from all over America suddenly have a keen interest in the order of succession for the Virginia governorship. This began with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s statement last Wednesday indicating his support for deciding whether a child born alive would get to live or die after birth. That appears to have led to the Friday revelation of then-medical-school-student Northam’s 1984 yearbook in which he appears to be in either a…

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House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiTrump gets dose of new political reality at State of the Union Six takeaways from the State of the Union Pelosi: Trump forgot to mention newly elected women are mostly Dems MORE’s (D-Calif.) emphatic applause in response to President TrumpDonald John TrumpSix takeaways from the State of the Union Ocasio-Cortez rejects criticism that she wasn’t ‘spirited and warm’ during Trump speech Lawmakers say Trump’s…

In his State of the Union address, President Trump encouraged all of us to strive for greatness. He also made a direct appeal to Congress to reject socialism, the very antithesis of our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the past two years, Trump has delivered on many of his campaign promises. This alone has been a breath of fresh air to voters who believed…

Video State of the Union 2019: Biggest moments from Trump’s address Alas for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., President Trump got to deliver his State of the Union address after all. And once again, America saw that Trump on the stump is very, very good. The speech Tuesday night was an important way for the president to reboot his standing with the American people. After a contentious several months and…

BOSTON (AP) — The involuntary manslaughter conviction of a young woman who encouraged her boyfriend through dozens of text messages to kill himself was upheld Wednesday by Massachusetts’ highest court. The Supreme Judicial Court agreed with a lower court judge who found that Michelle Carter caused Conrad Roy III’s death when she told him to ‘‘get back in’’ his truck that was filling with toxic gas after he told her…

Anton Troianovski February 6 at 8:32 AM MOSCOW — A Russian court sentenced a Danish Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for extremism Wednesday, one of the harshest verdicts in years against a Western citizen here and the latest incident in Russia’s crackdown on personal freedoms.  The Jehovah’s Witness, Dennis Christensen, was detained in May 2017 after a police raid on his congregation in the city of Orel, south…

As the shutdown dragged on to become the longest on record, 35 days, the consensus was that Mr. Trump had met his match in Ms. Pelosi, so much so that a man known for giving foes insulting nicknames like “Cryin’ Chuck” and for labeling women “horseface,” “ugly” and “dog” could come up with only one term to refer to Ms. Pelosi: Nancy. But Ms. Pelosi’s playbook for handling the president…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico ordered the withdrawal of the majority of the state’s National Guard troops from the U.S. border with Mexico on Tuesday, in a move that challenges President Trump’s description of a security crisis. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the partial withdrawal shortly before Trump’s State of the Union address. Her Republican predecessor deployed National Guard troops to the border in April…

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) As President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn’t help but shift her attention on multiple occasions from the president to several pieces of paper she was holding. Pelosi’s interest in the papers caught the attention of…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSix takeaways from the State of the Union Ocasio-Cortez rejects criticism that she wasn’t ‘spirited and warm’ during Trump speech Lawmakers say Trump’s infrastructure vision lacks political momentum MORE called on lawmakers during his State of the Union address Tuesday night to ban “late-term” abortions, a policy that won’t pass a divided Congress. “To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit…

Image caption Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai: “Peace is more difficult than war” The Taliban official who has led the group’s peace negotiations with the US has told the BBC the insurgents do not want to seize “the whole country by [military] power”. “It will not bring peace to Afghanistan,” Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said. However, he said the group would not agree to a ceasefire until foreign forces were withdrawn…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was conspicuously absent from President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Ginsburg, who turns 86 next month, has been working from home in recent weeks as she recovers from treatment for cancer. Her son said this week she has been out walking and sees a personal trainer twice a week. She appeared in public Monday for the first time since her recent…