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The California Public Utilities Commission has begun an investigation into whether Pacific Gas and Electric’s maintenance of its power infrastructure in Sonoma and Napa counties may have played a role in the deadly fires in those regions. The regulatory agency sent a letter to the utility ordering that it preserve all equipment possibly related to

Larry Flynt, the founder and publisher of Hustler magazine is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Fox Anchor Liz Claman, who broke the story, tweeted an image of an advert for the money. Flynt himself subsequently retweeted the story. Hustler had not replied to a request

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Saturday that will remove the rights of school administrators to decide whether employees with concealed weapon permits can bring guns on campus. State law already prohibited civilians who are not school workers from bringing firearms onto campuses, but a change in the law last year gave school

A Wisconsin elementary school is banning children from wearing Halloween costumes during their annual fall parade on Oct. 31, instead instituting “Hat Day” so that all children of different religious and economic backgrounds can participate. Officials at Hillcrest Elementary School in Waukesha took references to Halloween out of its annual Fall Festival years ago, but

President Donald Trump told conservatives gathered Friday at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of Christian leaders, that Americans “don’t worship government, we worship God.” “George Washington said that ‘religion and morality are indispensable’ to America’s happiness, really, prosperity and totally to its success,” Trump said. “It is our faith and our values that

Thousands of white supremacist and neo-Nazi flyers were sent to residents of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania this week, in what local authorities described as a “disturbing,” but not criminal, trend. The pamphlets contained anti-Semitic and other racist drawings, along with a swastika and the website address of an organization called “The Right Stuff,” The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of the key Republican votes that blocked the party’s effort to repeal Obamacare, announced Friday that she will forgo a race for the state’s governorship, remaining in the Senate at least until her term expires in 2020. “I am a congenital optimist and I continue to believe that