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A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said Sunday.

President Donald Trump is reportedly plotting yet another major shakeup to his cabinet.

The sheer number of Donald Trump’s cronies indicted, convicted, or still under investigation partially explains why this summer’s fraud and money laundering indictment of Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and White House Chief Strategist, didn’t get the attention it deserved. Bannon is, of course, only the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to face criminal charges – a group that includes Paul Manafort who Bannon replaced at the campaign; Manafort’s Deputy, Rick Gates; National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen; Roger Stone, the Republican trickster.

Goldberg also reports that when Trump visited France in 2018, he insulted the American World War I veterans buried at Aisne-Marne Cemetery and said, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." The reporting in Goldberg's article, according to Rubin, "seems entirely in character for Trump." But she doesn't expect a lot of Republicans to condemn Trump because of it. (Some Trump current and former officials denied aspects of the report on the record after it was published.)

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.

The latest in right-wing couture is a coronavirus mask with a pocket for your handgun.

Jacinda Chan was hired to work for a website called Peace Data, which let her write about human rights and Latin American life, the Daily Beast reported.

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg warned that more could be coming in the story about President Donald Trump's attacks on American soldiers. Trump was exposed for calling those who died in battle "losers" and "suckers.

Temperatures in parts of California are soaring above 100 degrees, setting records in some cities that have never experienced temperatures at or above 120 degrees. To make matters worse, the state hasn't received enough rainfall this year in the northern part of the state.

President Donald Trump desperately needs a COVID-19 vaccine to help him get through the election in November. The problem, however, is that it's never going to happen, no matter how hard he tries.

Retired Gen. John Kelly was cited in a story from The Atlantic, that was confirmed by Fox News and CNN, about President Donald Trump making crude and derogatory comments about American soldiers.

The Washington Post reported allegations against Postmaster General Louis Dejoy in a report in which former employees of his claim they were forced to donate to Republican candidates and were given bonuses for doing so. But according to a New York Times update to the story, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is one of those who overwhelmingly benefited from DeJoy's alleged scandal.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A student group at the University of Kansas is calling for a strike as reported coronavirus cases on campus number nearly 550.Jayhawker Liberation Front, a student-run club, is calling on students to stay home from their classes on Monday, which is Labor Day, to demand that the campus move to remote learning.“Our institutions have failed us,” the club leaders tweeted. “(The University of Kansas) has put profits over the people. Enough is enough.”As of Thursday, the university reported 546 cases after testing 22,563 people, which included all students, faculty and staff, ahea...