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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…

After Harris initially dropped out, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a leading voice on criminal justice reform in the Senate, tweeted, “I saw what happened today. And I, for one, will be there tomorrow. I have some things I think they need to hear from me — directly.”

Acting US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Phil Reeker has arrived at the U.S. Capitol. Reeker is meeting behind closed doors to testify before the House committees on Saturday as part of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. (Oct. 26) AP, AP

White House hopeful Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisKamala Harris skipping forum to protest award given to Trump Elijah Cummings, native son of Baltimore, gets emotional send-off from Democratic luminaries Biden’s lead shrinks in South Carolina poll MORE (D-Calif.) fired back at President TrumpDonald John TrumpKey witness in impeachment investigation asks federal judge to rule on testifying Pompeo voices support for work of diplomat criticized by Trump Biden, Sanders defend themselves…

The strong winds in the forecast will pose a high risk of sparks, which would lead to potentially rapidly spreading wildfires, Pacific Gas & Electric said in a statement Friday. Approximately 850,000 customers, comprising millions of people across Northern and Central California, could be without power through the weekend as PG&E stood ready to cut power to the regions most at risk from the blaze. As of Saturday morning, only…

Russian national Maria Butina, who was jailed in the United States in April after admitting to working as a Russian agent, has arrived in Moscow.  The 30-year old flew into Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Saturday, a day after her release from prison in Florida, and was greeted by her father and journalists who handed her flowers.  More: Russia prolongs arrest of American accused of spying …

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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Administrations of both parties have taken that position. Steven A. Engel, the Trump-appointed head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, asserted in a 15-page legal opinion last summer that “Congress may not constitutionally compel the president’s senior advisers to testify about their official duties.” Democrats have portrayed that legal theory as extreme and an act of obstruction by the Trump White House. They note that in 2008, a…

AGUA DULCE, Calif. (KABC) — Investigators are looking at a property in a remote part of Agua Dulce as a possible origin point for the massive Tick Fire. The burned-out home and yard in Tick Canyon is now the scene of an investigation by Los Angeles County Fire officials who believe the blaze started near there. Two sections of the property have crime scene tape around them. In one section,…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday justified his controversial push to withdraw troops from parts of the Middle East by saying that the money spent there could be used to help rebuild inner cities and provide college scholarships. He said one year of military spending in the Middle East could be used to give scholarships to every student at an inner-city school, without offering details on how such a…

A federal judge on Friday rejected claims that the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump is illegitimate as she ordered the Justice Department to give a House committee secret grand jury material collected in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. That material could help the House Judiciary Committee substantiate “potentially impeachable conduct” by Trump, said Chief Judge Beryl Howell of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., in her ruling. Howell brushed…

Blazes scorched brush up and down California on Friday and its largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, said once again that precautionary power outages could impact as many as 2 million Golden State residents. “A potentially powerful and widespread dry, hot and windy weather event” would threaten electricity service through Monday afternoon, PG&E said in a statement Friday. The utility has been halting power service in rural areas, mostly in…

CLOSE GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top ally of President Donald Trump, is introducing a resolution condemning the Democratic-controlled House’s impeachment inquiry. Democrats compared Republican attempts to enter the depositions to “political theater.”(Oct. 24) AP Domestic WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump dismissed the need for assembling a team to help in rebuffing Democrats’ impeachment inquiry despite multiple reports that allies and some at the White House want such a team.  Speaking to…

President Trump praised the contributions of African-Americans to the United States — and managed to get in some partisan shots — at the historically black Benedict College in South Carolina Friday. The president made the comments in an address for the Second Step Presidential Justice Forum, a conference aimed at building on the gains made from the administration-backed First Step Act.  “The Democratic policies have let African-Americans down and taken…

Maria Butina claimed she was a Russian patriot who loved her country, a peacemaker who strongly believed in the right to bear arms, and was grateful for the educational opportunities provided to her by her other love, America. The U.S. Justice Department saw it differently. In April, Butina, 31, became the only Russian convicted in connection with the investigation into Russia’s interference into the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Prosecutors said…

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Lawyers for former national security advisor John Bolton have been in touch with officials working on House committees about possibly testifying in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, a person close to Bolton told NBC News on Friday. The news comes more than a week after the White House’s former top Europe expert, Fiona Hill, reportedly testified to Congress that Bolton was so disturbed by efforts to get Ukraine…

Ivanka Trump, then an executive at her father’s real estate company and now a senior adviser to him in the White House, so coveted the building that she suggested at the time to GSA officials that her daughter, Arabella Rose, then not yet 5 months old, would one day oversee it.

CANYON COUNTRY, Calif. (KABC) — A 4,300-acre brush fire in Canyon Country continued raging Friday morning after it destroyed homes and prompted thousands of evacuations amid dangerous red flag conditions. The Tick Fire broke out Thursday around 1:24 p.m. in the area of the 31600 block of Tick Canyon Road just south of Summit Knoll Road. With strong Santa Ana winds and dry brush, it spread quickly as it burned…