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Schools in the area announced a wave of closures: All 40 of Sonoma County’s public schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday, affecting more than 70,400 students; Sonoma State University, thought not considered under immediate threat, canceled all classes through Tuesday; and Santa Rosa Junior College canceled all classes and campus activities through Wednesday. All public meetings in Sonoma County were also canceled for the week. Meanwhile, 1.3 million Californians…

LOS ANGELES – A fire erupted early Monday morning to the west of the 405 Freeway near Getty Center Drive, prompting mandatory evacuation orders, Los Angeles city firefighters said. The fire was believed to have been 3-4 acres when first observed and but soon spread to about 40 acres. By 7 a.m., it was reported at 500 acres. Fire officials described the inferno as “very dynamic, moving in a westward direction driven by high…

President Trump travels to Chicago for his first visit to the city since taking office. The president will deliver remarks at the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference. Earlier last wk, the city’s police superintendent announced he will skip Trump’s speech to his law enforcement counterparts. Trump’s contentious relationship with Chicago goes back to 2016 when he had to cancel a campaign rally after massive protests turned violent….

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The mother of Kayla Mueller, a deceased female aid worker who was captured and tortured by the Islamic State, criticized former President Barack Obama on Sunday by saying that her daughter might still be alive if he had been “as decisive” as President Donald Trump. In August 2013, Mueller was imprisoned by ISIS, before being subsequently tortured and sexually abused by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In February 2015,…

A view of the U.S. Capitol this month. House investigators are expected to press Charles Kupperman, deputy to then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, to corroborate key elements of an account that President Trump built a shadow foreign policy team to pressure the Ukrainian president. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A view of the U.S. Capitol this month. House investigators are expected…

CLOSE People take part in a protest near the Trump tower, against President-elect Donald Trump, in Chicago, Illinois on November 9, 2016. (Photo: PAUL BEATY, AFP/Getty Images) CHICAGO — Amid an impeachment inquiry in Washington and an ongoing strike by more than 32,000 teachers and school staff, Donald Trump is expected to make his first presidential visit to Chicago on Monday, a city that he often ridicules for how its leaders handle gun violence….

Latest developments on fires around the region and PG&E’s power shut-offs. Learn when power might be turned back on; find out which schools are closed here; get complete details on the Kincade Fire here; and look at the outages’ impact on Northern California here. 3:14 a.m. No immediate danger from Kincade Fire to Santa Rosa in Shiloh Ridge Road area: Cal Fire said the fire had calmed down and there…

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CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos or video on a mobile device SANTA ROSA — This time, they knew it was coming. Fierce winds on Sunday continued to push the Kincade Fire farther into Sonoma County, torching wineries, hilltop homes and threatening the towns of Healdsburg, Windsor and Calistoga. In the largest evacuation in county history, some 180,000 people from the Wine Country to the…

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Trump, who returned to the White House from golfing about 4 p.m., entered the Situation Room about an hour later, he said. Seated at a table in a navy suit and blue tie, he was flanked in a photo released by the White House by Vice President Pence, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien and two generals: Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of…

PORTLAND, Ore. — About 300 firefighters from numerous fire agencies around Oregon left Sunday morning to help battle the devastating wildfires in California. The largest of the fires, the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, is being fueled by historic winds and has caused nearly 180,000 people to flee their homes. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency. The evacuations cover parts of…

On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. forces had finally located and killed the elusive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a raid on a compound in Pakistan, ten years after bin Laden had masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. On October 27, 2019, President Donald Trump announced that a U.S. operation had resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader…

Former Congressman John Conyers, a Democrat who represented the Detroit area for more than 50 years and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus, died Sunday. Conyers is seen here in 2014. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Congressman John Conyers, a Democrat who represented the Detroit area for more than 50 years and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus, died Sunday. Conyers is seen here in 2014….

“ISIS’ success is rooted in state failures, sectarian divides, military and intelligence experience drawn from the Baathist security state it emerged from, and an ideology that is coherent and, for some, compelling,” Itani said, referring to the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, the former leader of Iraq.

CLOSE In Northern California wine country, authorities ordered 2,000 people to evacuate as a wildfire burned 49 buildings and exploded to 25 square miles. Authorities said on Thursday night that the fire is 5% contained. (Oct. 25) AP, AP SAN FRANCISCO – Close to 200,000 Northern California residents, many of them left in the dark by a third power shutdown in a month, have been ordered to leave their homes…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes for his country’s military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and U.N. investigator Carla Del Ponte said. Del Ponte, a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said in an interview published Saturday that Turkey had broken international law and had reignited the conflict in Syria. “For Erdogan to be able to invade Syrian territory…

President TrumpDonald John Trump Comey: Mueller ‘didn’t succeed in his mission because there was inadequate transparency’ During deposition, official says he made several efforts to advocate for Marie Yovanovitch Bolton looms large as impeachment inquiry accelerates MORE on Sunday again claimed he wrote a book prior to the terror attacks on 9/11 warning about the dangers of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “I said you have to kill him. You…

North Korea on Sunday said it’s running out of patience with the United States over what it described as hostile policies and unilateral disarmament demands, and warned that a close personal relationship between the leaders alone wouldn’t be enough to prevent nuclear diplomacy from derailing. In a statement published by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol said there has been no substantial progress…