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Most people ignore the electrical grid, until it stops working. When that happens, the disruption can be total, but most often is a matter of inconvenience—the lights go out, the internet goes down, there is no place to recharge a cell phone.

But what if power did not return for days, weeks or months? And what if such a lengthy blackout engulfed not just a neighborhood or a county but a

California faces a "parade of storms" over the next several weeks, on top of deluges that have killed at least 12 people, caused flooding, knocked out power and forced evacuations and school closures up and down the coast.

Given the Mediterranean climate of the state's coastal areas, wet winters and dry summers are a natural part of California's weather patterns going back millennia.

The House voted unanimously Friday on a bill ordering the declassification of intelligence about the origins of COVID-19 in China, sending the bill to President Biden's desk.

The bill, which already passed the Senate, would require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify any information about links between the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Wuhan Institute

A second city council member in New Jersey was fatally shot outside of his car in a parking lot, officials said, a week after a councilwoman was shot and killed inside her car.

The 51-year-old councilman, Russell Heller, who represented the borough of Milford in central New Jersey, was found dead in the parking lot outside his workplace on Wednesday morning, local police and prosecutors