Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area, the utility said, even though widespread blackouts were in place to prevent downed lines from starting fires during dangerously windy weather.
A conspiracy theory suggests the deliberate burning of populated areas to make way for a high-speed rail system.
Blowback against the proposed elimination of deductions for personal losses caused by natural disasters surged as wildfires ravaged southern California.
While the danger from the deadliest, most destructive cluster of blazes in California history was not over, the smoky skies started to clear in some places.
Rumors that spread in February 2020 about the death of Kobe Bryant's widow were junk news.
A meme about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders displayed questionable accuracy and relevance.
“The babies kept coming and coming and coming and coming ..."
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign tried to distance him from a 1972 essay in which he wrote that a woman "fantasizes being raped by three men simultaneously."
A summary of the 1956 Republican platform describes a significant divergence from the party's focus in recent decades.