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California Fires Kill at Least 10 and Destroy 1,500 Buildings - The New York Times

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SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Fast-moving wildfires raged across Northern California on Monday, killing at least 10 people, sending well over 100 to hospitals, forcing up to 20,000 to evacuate and destroying more than 1,500 buildings in one of the most destructive fire emergencies in the state’s history. Firefighters were battling blazes in eight counties, officials said. In Santa Rosa, the fire gutted a Hilton hotel and flattened the Journey’s End retirement community, a trailer park not far from the freeway that crosses the city.

'We don't allow families to own tanks' and should control guns too: Democratic lawmaker - ABC News

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A Massachusetts Democrat who served in Martha Raddatz for a rare bipartisan conversation on how Congress should respond to the mass shooting a week ago in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead. Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Constitution. "I've seen the effects of gun violence firsthand in Iraq, and I know that it has no place at our schools, on our streets, at our concerts," he said. "You can have restrictions on guns under the

San Juan mayor's complaints dismissed as 'political noise' by FEMA chief - ABC News

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The San Juan mayor’s continuing complaints about the federal emergency response to the devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria are just "political noise," said Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “We filtered out the mayor a long time ago," Long told ABC News "This Week" co-anchor Donald Trump and the federal response to the damage to the U.S.

EPA plans to roll back Clean Power Plan, major Obama-era climate rule - ABC News

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Scott Pruitt announced today that the agency plans to roll back a major carbon-emissions rule put in place by the Obama administration — the latest step the Trump presidency has taken to roll back his predecessor's climate regulations. The global warming. But at Monday's announcement, Pruitt said the regulation picked "winners and losers," echoing comments from Trump and other officials that environmental regulations elim

GOP senator: Trump could be setting US ‘on path to World War III’ - The Boston Globe

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Donald Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.” <

Politics - The Boston Globe

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The comments by Bob Corker of Tennessee came hours after he called the White House ‘‘an adult day care center.”  Vice President Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee.

Capital - The week in politics and issues

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories While he has not yet held a public campaign kick-off event, candidates don’t raise that much money if they don’t plan to run.  CAPITAL SOURCE Tennant, whom Charlie Baker once removed as a fund raiser because of his raffish reputation, is hosting a fund raising event for Beth Lindstrom at his Swampscott home Wednesday night.