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Pacific Gas and Electric says dry and windy conditions drove the utility to expand its power blackout zone by 90,000 customers across Northern and Central California to prevent the risk of wildfires.

A recent conference on climate change focused on the ways teachers, scientists and activists can help the next generation shape a comprehensive approach to the fight against global warming.

In many places there's no requirement to tell a home buyer if a house is at risk of flooding, even as climate change increases that risk. Some hope a new Texas law will be a national model.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is freeing up state aid as high winds fuel two major fires across the state. The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County has burned 30,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders for some 180,000.

The Chicago teachers' union says to end the strike, teachers need to feel a real financial commitment. City officials say they can't afford any more money than they have already put on the table.

A state commission will consider a regulatory dispute over the clinic's license. If forced to stop performing abortions, Missouri would become the first state to be without at least one such clinic.

Maurice Robinson, 25, of Northern Ireland will appear in court on Monday after being charged on Saturday. So far, four others have been arrested in connection with the alleged human smuggling ring.

Halloween each year brings a cauldron of unpleasantness for people of color — and a surge of questions to our inbox. To get through it all, we put together the official Code Switch Guide to Halloween.

Baseball fans booed President Trump in Washington on Sunday, hours after he announced the death of a terrorist. Some also put a spin on a refrain Trump supporters have chanted against Hillary Clinton.

Days before the Oct. 31 deadline to leave the EU, the bloc signed off on a British request to postpone it again. With the deadline reset to Jan. 31, the U.K. appears little closer to a clean exit.