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• Syrian Kurds say spy stole Baghdadi’s underpants for DNA test

  28-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian Democratic Forces also claim they played a key role in tracking down Baghdadi to a compound in northern Syria Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces as they withdraw from the Sanjak Saadoun border area near the northern Syrian town of Amuda, on 27 October. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesSyrian Kurds say they managed to place a spy in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who stole a pair of the Islamic State leader’s underpants to prove his identity and then
  
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• U.S. military envisions broad defense of Syrian oilfields

  28-10-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will repel any attempt to take Syria's oil fields away from U.S.-backed Syrian militia with "overwhelming force," whether the opponent is Islamic State or even forces backed by Russia or Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.The U.S. military announced last week it was reinforcing its position in Syria with additional assets, including mechanized forces, to prevent oilfields from being taken over by remnants of the Islamic State militant group or others.U.S. Defense Secretary Mark
  
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• Feds: Brothers with alleged Hezbollah ties are 'dangerous'

  28-10-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors say two brothers charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are "dangerous" and should remain in custody while they await trial, according to a court document filed Monday.Usama and Issam Hamade are charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws.Usama Hamade is also charged with smuggling.
  
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• Popeyes' Ultra-Popular Chicken Sandwich Is Coming Back to the Menu

  28-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Its popularity will likely be the stuff of 2019 legend
  
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• Former Boston College student charged in suicide death of boyfriend, echoing Michelle Carter case

  28-10-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Boston College student was charged in connection with the suicide death of her boyfriend, drawing comparisons to the Michelle Carter case.
  
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• Schiff to handle impeachment witness testimony in break from precedent

  28-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Under past precedent in 1974 and 1998 — the last two times the House conducted an impeachment inquiry — the House Judiciary Committee was the hub for investigations, hearings, and a committee vote on articles of impeachment.
  
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• Here's What California's Kincade Wildfire Looks Like From Space

  28-10-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Bay-area's Kincade wildfire has grown so large that a satellite can record the plumes from 23,000 miles away in space.
  
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• South Dakota asks court to let execution proceed

  28-10-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of South Dakota asked a judge Monday to reject an inmate's objection to the lethal drug scheduled for use in his execution.Charles Russell Rhines is scheduled to die next week for the 1992 fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old doughnut shop worker during a robbery.Rhines moved last week to block the execution by arguing that pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals, doesn't act quickly enough.
  
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• Congresswoman's exit prompts question of equity amid scandal

  28-10-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The resignation of a female Democratic congresswoman over a consensual, sexual relationship with a campaign aide has sparked questions about whether women are held to higher standards in public life.At the center of the controversy is Katie Hill, a first-term lawmaker from California and a rising Democratic Party star.In a video released Monday, Hill said she was stepping down because she was "fearful of what might come next" following the online publication of explicit pictures that outed her r
  
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• U.S. Spies Say Turkish-Backed Militias Are Killing Civilians As They Clear Kurdish Areas in Syria

  28-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials fears the groups could be using American-made weapons to conduct potential war crimes
  
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• The World’s Largest Treehouse Burned to the Ground in Less Than 15 Minutes

  28-10-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators are still unsure what sparked the fire in Crossville, Tennessee
  
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• Bernie Sanders won key endorsements from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib by defending them when few others would

  28-10-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The key endorsements were motivated by personal loyalty and a mutually beneficial political relationship between the lawmakers.
  
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• Baby Shortage Prompts China’s Unwed Mothers to Fight for Change

  28-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.For generations, a Chinese woman who gave birth out of wedlock was shunned by society and discriminated against by authorities. Now, as the Communist Party seeks to boost a slowing birthrate, that is starting to change.Yue Li, based in the southern port city of Guangzhou, thought she would face a range of obstacles in getting her son legal documents after she gave birth last year follow
  
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• U.S. Proposes Cutting Off Funds for Chinese Telecom Equipment

  28-10-2019 21:57
  U.S. regulators have proposed cutting off funding for Chinese equipment in U.S. telecommunications networks, citing security threats.
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• Judge to allow portion of Nick Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post to continue

  28-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge is allowing a portion of Covington Catholic student Nathan Sandmann's lawsuit against the Washington Post to continue.
  
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• Trump shows off 'wonderful' dog used in al-Baghdadi raid

  28-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The president declassified a picture of the Belgian Malinois that helped the U.S. military track down the ISIS leader.
  
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• Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi buried at sea hours after his death

  28-10-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's remains were quickly disposed of at sea hours after he blew himself up during a US raid on his compound in north-west Syria, Pentagon officials have said. The world's most wanted terrorist was buried within 24 hours of his death, according with Islamic tradition, and was afforded religious rites. General Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, speaking at the Pentagon, said: "His remains were disposed of appropriately in accordance with the law of armed co
  
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• Pelosi announces full House vote on impeachment inquiry

  28-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought Monday to deprive President Trump of a legal and political argument against the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, announcing she would hold a vote in the full House this Thursday that “affirms the ongoing, existing investigation.”
  
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• Meet the LRASM: The U.S. Navy's Powerful New Missile

  28-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a killer.
  
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• Bankrupt Electricity Provider Says It May Have Sparked Latest Northern California Fire

  28-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  California electricity provider Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said on Monday that its equipment may have sparked two fires in the San Fransisco Bay area over the weekend.The fires destroyed a tennis club and forced the evacuation of Lafayette, a town about 22 miles east of San Fransisco. According to PG&E, which filed for bankruptcy in January, firefighters believe one fire started after contact between a communication line and a power line belonging to the company.A PG&E worker found a
  
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• Sanders Sees U.S. Aid as ‘Leverage’ Over Israel: Campaign Update

  28-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders said Monday he’d use U.S. aid to Israel as “leverage” to push the country to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians.He said “$3.8 billion is a lot of money, and we cannot give it carte blanche to the Israeli government.” Sanders spoke at a forum hosted by the progressive pro-Israel group J Street, where he was well-received.Sanders, who said he hopes to become the first Jewish president, said the situation in the Israeli-occu
  
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• US deploying more troops around Syria oil fields after killing of Isis leader

  28-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has said he hopes to secure a US share of Syrian oil revenues, which is potentially a war crimeA convoy of US military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives along a road in the countryside of Syria’s north-eastern city of Qamishli on 26 October 2019. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US military has started reinforcing its positions around oil fields in eastern Syria, saying the new deployments are part of its continuing counter-terrorist mission after the k
  
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• How Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in spite of Trump - not because of him

  28-10-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump milked the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the full, as was to be expected. It is the one foreign and defence policy success he has had after a string of failures.It was also, according to him, a massive riposte to all those who had savaged his policy in Syria. And, he must have felt, a very welcome distraction from an ever widening Impeachment hearing and his other travails.
  
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• Over 40 skulls found in den of Mexico cartel suspects

  28-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Police found more than 40 skulls, dozens of bones and a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico City during a raid this week, authorities said on Sunday.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty in deaths of 4 sleeping on NYC streets

  28-10-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A homeless man charged in the beating deaths of four men as they slept on the New York City streets may pursue a mental health-related defense, his lawyer told a judge Monday at his arraignment.Randy Santos, 24, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges during a brief excursion to court from the psychiatric ward, where he has been held since shortly after his arrest in the Oct. 5 killings in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood.Santos appeared in an orange jail suit and gray undershirt with h
  
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• Venezuela Defaults on Its Last Bond, Setting Up Legal Showdown

  28-10-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The team advising Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido skipped a payment Monday on the nation’s only bonds not in default, setting up a legal showdown with creditors.Rather than pay the $913 million due on Petroleos de Venezuela’s 2020 notes, Guaido’s advisers say they will take legal action against investors to fight any efforts to seize the collateral on the bonds -- 50.1% of Citgo Holding Inc.’s shares. Their argument is that the debt is il
  
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• Woman in 'total control' of boyfriend charged in his suicide

  28-10-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Boston College student who had "complete and total control" over her boyfriend has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge for encouraging him to take his own life, Boston's top prosecutor said Monday.Inyoung You, 21, was "physically, verbally and psychologically abusive" to fellow Boston College student Alexander Urtula during an 18-month relationship, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at a news conference.You sent Urtula, 22, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more t
  
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• Trump says al-Baghdadi died 'screaming and crying.' U.S. officials aren't sure how he knows that.

  28-10-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Gen. Mark A. Milley, who watched the raid with Trump in the Situation Room, told reporters at the Pentagon that he doesn't know "what the source of that was."
  
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• Russian Defense Ministry: Trump’s al-Baghdadi victory lap is nothing but ‘propaganda’

  28-10-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  At the White House Sunday morning, President Trump profusely thanked Russia for its alleged involvement in the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but Russia has disputed his claims.
  
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• Homeland Security Grants 200,000 Salvadoran Immigrants an Extra Year to Return Home

  28-10-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Immigration authorities on Monday granted Salvadoran immigrants with protected status an additional year to return to El Salvador before being subject to deportation.Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and El Salvador's foreign minister signed an agreement granting a one year reprieve to about 200,000 Salvadorans who reside in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program, which grants temporary residence to immigrants fleeing armed conflict or natural disaster in their ho
  
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• Read Cyntoia Brown-Long's note to her 16-year-old self facing life in prison

  28-10-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  On CBS This Morning, Cyntoia Brown-Long read a note to her 16-year-old self when she was convicted for the Nashville death of Johnny Allen.
  
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• Chair of Joint Chiefs doesn’t know source of Trump’s ‘whimpering and crying’ remark about al-Baghdadi

  28-10-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  At a Pentagon briefing, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said two men were captured and are in U.S. custody after the raid on a compound where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding and died. Gen. Milley also said he didn’t know where the president received the information stating that al-Baghdadi was “whimpering and crying,” as Trump described on Sunday, when faced by U.S. troops.
  
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• NRA leadership thought its own TV channel was airing 'distasteful and racist' content

  28-10-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "One particularly damaging segment featured children's cartoon characters adorned in Ku Klux Klan hoods," the court filing stated.
  
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• Why Aren’t Women’s Groups Talking About Katie Hill’s Resignation?

  28-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/GettyThe resignation of Rep. Katie Hill was the talk of Capitol Hill this weekend, but you wouldn’t know it from the glaring lack of public statements by women’s rights groups or Hill’s fellow Democrats. Even two years after the explosion of the MeToo movement, Hill’s unique case proved too complicated for many anti-harassment advocates to address.Hill—one of a record number of women elected to Congress in 2018, and the first openly bis
  
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• California fires: When disaster fans flames of inequality

  28-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Around 2 million Californians lost power in preemptive blackouts and 180,000 people had to evacuate ahead of the Kincade Fire this weekend.
  
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• Donations to NRA PAC Surge after Dems Contemplate Gun Confiscation

  28-10-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The NRA's political action committee had an explosive month of fundraising in September after Democratic 2020 presidential candidates openly backed confiscating legally-owned firearms, according to Federal Election Commission documents.The PAC raised $1.3 million in September, a $400,000 increase over previous month's fundraising total. Donations of under $200 accounted for $981,277 of the total, the Washington Free Beacon noted.Candidate Beto O'Rourke set off a firestorm in September after vowi
  
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• 39 victims: Families wait for news in UK truck tragedy

  28-10-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday honored the 39 victims who died in a container as the truck driver made his first court appearance after being charged with manslaughter and conspiracy. Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel traveled to the site in southeastern England to sign a condolence book and place a wreath in remembrance of the victims, whose identities and origins are still shrouded in mystery. British officials initially said the eight women and 31 men who were found in a
  
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• Lebanon Needs Solution in Days to Avoid Economic Crisis, Says Central Bank Governor

  28-10-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s central bank governor warned on Monday that a political solution was needed within “days” to avoid economic collapse and restore public confidence after 12 days of anti-government protests that have forced banks to close.In an interview with CNN, Riad Salameh said that a change in government was needed to restore confidence and ensure that financial inflows -- which have already slowed this year -- do not dry up.“It’s a matter of days becaus
  
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• Trump: 'Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison' to Chicago

  28-10-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump used his first trip to Chicago as president to disparage the city and its police chief, who had boycotted his appearance.
  
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• Barr Defends Durham’s Probe Into Origins of Russiagate, Slams Comey’s ‘Failure of Leadership’

  28-10-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Attorney General William Barr told Fox News in an interview Monday that John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Mueller investigation, which was recently elevated to a criminal investigation, “is making great progress.”“He’s a 35-year veteran of the department, great reputation for non-partisanship. He was selected by two Democratic attorney generals to do sensitive investigations for them,” Barr said of Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut. &ldq
  
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• Adobe database exposes 7.5 million Creative Cloud users

  28-10-2019 18:20
  Adobe has become the latest company to be caught leaving an Elasticsearch database full of customer data exposed on the internet.
  
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• As Cuba seeks hard currency, dollar stores reopen after 15 years

  28-10-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Cubans flocked to a dozen shops that opened in Havana on Monday selling home appliances and spare parts for cars in dollars, as the cash-strapped government struggles to rake in tradable currency to purchase imports and pay its debts.Washing machines, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, TVs, electric motorcycles, car batteries, tires and other goods were priced well below similar offers at other state stores, when available for sale in the government's local dollar equivalent, the convert
  
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• John Conyers Jr., 26-Term Congressman Hit by Scandal, Dies

  28-10-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- John Conyers Jr., a Democrat who was serving his 26th term in the U.S. House when he resigned from Congress after allegations that he sexually harassed employees, has died at age 90.Conyers’ death at his home in Detroit on Oct. 27 was confirmed by a family spokeswoman, the Washington Post reported. No cause of death of given.The representative from Michigan’s 13th district entered the U.S. House in 1965. During his tenure, he introduced legislation on civil liberties,
  
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• Greg Walden to retire in latest sign of GOP doubts about retaking House

  28-10-2019 17:59 via politico.com
  Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will retire at the end of this Congress — the latest sign that Republicans see a struggle to retake the House in 2020.The 62-year-old Walden, who was first elected in 1998, said he was confident he'd win reelection but decided instead to end his congressional career in Jan. 2021.
  
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• Lebanon protesters block roads to keep revolt alive

  28-10-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanese demonstrators set up barricades and parked cars across key roads Monday to protest corruption and press their demands for a radical overhaul of their country's sectarian political system.Defying pleas from Lebanon's top leaders, protesters sought to keep the country on lockdown for a 12th consecutive day by cutting off some of the main thoroughfares, including the main north-south highway.The protesters-- who are demanding better services as well as an end to corruption and sectarian po
  
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• Kamala Harris Argues Racism, Sexism Jeopardize Her Electability

  28-10-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris described electability as the “elephant in the room” of her campaign and pondered whether America is ready for a woman of color to be commander in chief."Essentially, is America ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States?" Harris said in an interview with Axios on HBO. "There is a lack of ability or a difficulty in imagining that someone whom we have never seen can do a job that has been done 45 tim
  
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• Fortinet Acquires Endpoint Security Firm enSilo

  28-10-2019 17:47
  Fortinet on Monday announced that it has completed the acquisition of San Francisco-based endpoint security company enSilo in an effort to enhance and strengthen its solutions.
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• NJ Transit’s Angry Riders Prompt Crew Training to Stem Assaults

  28-10-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A soaring number of physical assaults on New Jersey Transit employees have led the agency to step up anti-violence training as bus and train riders vent about crowding and cancellations.Twenty-seven personnel have reported assaults either on board trains or on NJ Transit rail property from January through July, according to Federal Railroad Administration data. That’s four more than for calendar years 2016-2018 combined. Assault data for bus workers weren’t immediately
  
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• Netanyahu says Iran seeking means to attack Israel from Yemen

  28-10-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Monday of seeking the means to launch precision-guided missiles at Israel from Yemen, a signal that the war-torn Gulf Arab country could come under pre-emptive Israeli attack.Netanyahu made his allegations, which were short on details, as he hosted a senior U.S. delegation and following days of unusually voluble warnings in Israel that war could break out with Iran or its allies on more than one front.Neither Iran nor the Yemeni Houthi fi
  
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• Nearly 200,000 people have fled their homes in California's Sonoma County as the Kincade Fire continues to grow

  28-10-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 66,200 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.
  
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