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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Wednesday that he has “concluded to not participate” with Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) January 6 Select Committee. McCarthy cited Pelosi’s “unprecedented action of rejecting the Republican members” he named to serve on the committee as one of the reasons for his decision.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump returned home to the White House Sunday with their son, Barron, after a 17-day working vacation at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. As Melania stepped off Air Force One in Washington D.C., the First Lady donned a color-blocked creme and lime-toned belted midi Delpozo dress with her famous tousled hair and sunglasses. The dress normally retails for $782, but is already sold out, according to Lyst.

A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News. The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was "messing with a bomb" when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News' sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death. Al-Qahtani was "a vibrant guy linked to ongoing operations planning, and his death will have an impact," one official told Fox News. An Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula newsletter was the first to announce his death a week...

<p>With Gov. Gray Davis expected to sign a landmark global warming bill this month, California may be on the verge of exporting another trend to the rest of the United States: tougher gas mileage standards.</p> <p>For two decades, Detroit Democrats and Texas Republicans have helped defeat efforts in Congress to increase fuel economy rules for cars and trucks.</p>

SACRAMENTO -- On the morning after the California Assembly passed a landmark global warming bill that has become a lightning rod for national debate, Speaker Herb Wesson received a call from former President Clinton, praising him for shepherding through the Legislature a bill that would make California the first state to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases. Clinton's personal interest in the bill is indicative of what the measure authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, has become to the environmental movement nationwide -- the vessel of their hope for action to combat global warming in the wake of the...