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.
The automated political advocacy service Resistbot ran another campaign following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020.
A list purportedly offers controversial and embarrassing statements about rape made by Republican politicians.
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate's pro-abortion-rights record has come under scrutiny from conservatives.
"Was he joking?" has become a frequent question for reporters, and voters, since Trump began his political career in 2015.
A 1974 report co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg about sex bias in U.S. law has been grossly misinterpreted.