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California’s electric utility is facing historic financial liability if it’s deemed responsible for a deadly wildfire ravaging Northern California, but a lifeline from the state Friday suggested that it just may be taxpayers who help foot the bill. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. this week disclosed that it had “experienced an outage” and damage to a transmission tower near the origin one of the largest of several fires burning in Northern and Southern California, the Camp Fire. The incident was apparently reported to the utility mere minutes before the blaze started. PG&E’s disclosure, contained in a regulatory filing, sent shockwaves...

Krauthammer on young D.C. protester named Carter: ‘It’s got a whiff of ISIS to it’ After watching the President-elect and his family at the Make America Great Again concert at the Lincoln Memorial I was ready to switch channels and enjoy the moment. Then I tuned in to the Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. Tucker had one of his colleagues reporter Griff Jenkins at the site of a small protest in front of the National Press Club where Trump supporters were hosting the Deplorables Ball (see video below). Here is the conversation between Jenkins and a young boy named...

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A Capitol Police officer has been suspended in connection with the series of restroom fires that broke out in Senate office buildings over the past three months. Several law enforcement sources who wished to remain anonymous confirmed on Monday that Officer Karen Emory recently has been suspended in connection with the fires, although details about her involvement, including whether she is a suspect in the case, are not known. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider refused to comment on the suspension, other than to say that no charges have been filed. “We don’t discuss personnel issues,” she said. “When there...

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Once the blaze that is now consuming the Colorado landscape got rolling a little question popped into my mind. It almost always does when I hear of these horrible disasters. "How did it start?" I'm always interested in the origins of things. How did Hitler come to power? How did Clinton get elected twice? How does my wallet seem to empty faster than it seems to fill? You get the idea... I've often heard of those mysterious fires that just seem to begin out of nothing. I guess what happens is the conditions get so dry that one day given...