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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Senate Leader Kevin de Leon will announce an audacious bid to challenge fellow Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Sunday, according to multiple Democrats who spoke to De Leon about his plans Saturday. The announcement sets the stage for a bitter intraparty battle next year, pitting Feinstein, who epitomizes the Democratic old guard, against

Hillary Clinton has compared Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election and her subsequent loss to Donald Trump with the devastation of 9/11. “We have really well-respected security and intelligence veterans saying this was a kind of cyber 9/11 in the sense that it was a direct attack to American institutions,” Clinton, referring to

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Washboards, candles and cash are the new must-have items on this powerless island. Almost four weeks after Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico, 85 percent of the population is still without electricity, forcing people to get creative — and go old school — as they face an extended period of life

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered up a notable response Sunday to a leading GOP senator’s assertion that President Donald Trump was trying to “publicly castrate” the secretary by undercutting his diplomacy. “I checked — I’m fully intact,” Tillerson deadpanned, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The notion of Trump running

Tannah Butterfield’s foster parents have been trying to adopt her and her two siblings for years. Then, a security camera captured the moment earlier this week when the 11-year-old girl was told that they were finally being adopted. The 11-year-old from South Jordan, Utah was in class when the school’s office manager Jackie Alexander got

A sukkah erected on the campus of Kansas State University was damaged by severe weather and not vandalism as first reported. The sukkah was found bent, destroyed and wrapped around a car on the night of October 6. It was initially believed that the sukkah had been vandalized, since its pieces were found around the

Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West) After Kristallnacht and the Anschluss, Felix and Margarethe Steiner fled their native Vienna for the warm embrace of a decidedly chillier destination: Fargo, North Dakota. The Jewish couple crossed the Atlantic Ocean

The United States’ National Portrait Gallery has announced that two up-and-coming African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, have been selected to paint the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. The Smithsonian Institution, parent organization of the National Portrait Gallery, said Friday that President Obama had specifically requested to

Steve Bannon has a message for “the good folks at Vanity Fair”, stating Donald Trump will “not only finish his term” but gain a landslide 400 electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. Speaking at the controversial Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, Bannon hit back at a report from Vanity Fair that suggested he

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—As the death toll rose to 40, firefighters struggled Saturday to get the upper hand against several massive wildfires that have ravaged Northern California for almost a week. Strong winds kicked up overnight in the central Napa Valley region, causing some fires to spread and triggering evacuations in Sonoma and elsewhere, officials said.