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Air quality has deteriorated to unhealthy levels across many Northern California communities due to increased smoke from the many wildfires burning across the region, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. That hasn't kept folks from venturing into downtown Nevada City or Grass Valley to shop and eat at restaurants. Saturday's aqi read unhealthy at 365 pm2.5 in Western Nevada County. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
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California wildfire evacuees return home to find devastation
Air quality has deteriorated to unhealthy levels across many Northern California communities due to increased smoke from the many wildfires burning across the region, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. That hasn't kept folks from venturing into downtown Nevada City or Grass Valley to shop and eat at restaurants. Saturday's aqi read unhealthy at 365 pm2.5 in Western Nevada County. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
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  • Air quality has deteriorated to unhealthy levels across many Northern California communities due to increased smoke from the many wildfires burning across the region, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. That hasn't kept folks from venturing into downtown Nevada City or Grass Valley to shop and eat at restaurants. Saturday's aqi read unhealthy at 365 pm2.5 in Western Nevada County. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
  • This image made from video from the Office of the Governor shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing into law a bill that establishes a task force to come up with recommendations on how to give reparations to Black Americans on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Sacramento, Calif. The law establishes a nine-member task force to come up with a plan for how the state could give reparations to Black Americans, what form those reparations might take and who would be eligible to receive them. (Office of the Governor via AP)
  • This photo from video provided by KESQ-TV shows a Lockheed Martin KC-130J tanker after it made an emergency landing after colliding with an F-35B fighter jet during a refueling operation over the Southern California desert near Thermal Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The fighter pilot ejected and the other aircraft landed safely. The pilot who ejected is being treated, and nobody aboard the tanker was hurt. The jet crashed near the Salton Sea, northeast of San Diego. (KESQ-TV via AP)
  • Little Rock Police Chief Keith Humphrey speaks at a news conference at Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Humphrey filed a lawsuit accusing the local police union, two assistant chiefs and several officers of conspiring against him in an effort to force him out of his job. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2017, file photo, volunteer lawyers work to help free travelers detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport during President Donald Trump's order to temporarily ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the U.S., in New York. Trump appears to be ignoring a deadline to establish how many refugees will be allowed into the U.S. in 2021, raising uncertainty about the future of the 40-year-old resettlement program. The 1980 Refugee Act requires presidents to issue their determination before Oct. 1, 2020, the start of the fiscal year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2020, file photo, a man takes a cigarette break in an isolation housing area between Jorns and Humphrey Residence Halls at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wis. The coronavirus tightened its grip on the American heartland, with hospitals in Wisconsin and North Dakota running low on space, and the NFL postponing a game over an outbreak that's hit the Tennessee Titans football team. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2020, file photo, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner speaks during a news conference in St. Louis. A federal judge has blasted Gardner's legal claims she was the victim of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office in tossing out her federal civil rights lawsuit. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
  • FILE - In a Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, then-United Auto Workers president Dennis Williams speaks during a roundtable with reporters in Detroit. Williams, the former president of the United Auto Workers, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, to an embezzlement scheme, saying he suspected that union dues were being used for golf, lodging and fancy meals but "deliberately looked away" and enjoyed the bounty. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
  • EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Sarah Collins Rudolph, who survived a racist church bombing that killed sister Addie Mae Collins and three other girls in 1963, stands with husband George Rudolph at the remains of a Confederate memorial that was removed in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. The city took down the more than 50-foot-tall obelisk following protests over the police death of George Floyd and a night of vandalism in the city. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
  • FILE - This Sunday, April 5, 2020, photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau has spent much of the past year defending itself against allegations that its duties have been overtaken by politics. With a failed attempt by the Trump administration to add a citizenship question, the hiring of three political appointees with limited experience to top positions, a sped-up schedule and a directive from President Donald Trump to exclude undocumented residents from the process of redrawing congressional districts, the 2020 census has descended into a high-stakes partisan battle. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
  • American Airlines ticket agent Henry Gemdron, left, works with a customer at Miami International Airport during the coronavirus pandemic, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Miami. The airline industry has been decimated by the pandemic. The Payroll Support Program given to the airlines as part of the CARES Act runs out Thursday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, pats the shoulder of Montana Gov. Steve Bullock as he walks to his seat at the Governors' Ball in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, has rejected an effort by the campaign of President Donald Trump and Republican groups to block Montana counties from holding mostly-by-mail elections this November, saying the campaign's claim that the election may fall prey to widespread voter fraud is "a fiction." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Arkema CEO, Richard Rowe, listens during the Arkema Inc., criminal trial at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse, in Houston. Judge Belinda Hill ruled Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, that prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence to support the charge against Rowe, dropping the case against him over a toxic fire at the company's suburban Houston plant during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020 photo, voting booths are kept socially distant at the Chesterfield, N.H. polling site. Democrats and Republicans are involved in hundreds of lawsuits across the country relating to the upcoming election. The lawsuits concern the core fundamentals of the American voting process, including how ballots are cast and counted.(Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2018, file photo, Jim Strickland, of Oroville, Calif., writes a message on a cross at a makeshift memorial for the 58 victims killed in an Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas. A judge in Nevada has approved a total of $800 million in payouts from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting that was the deadliest in recent U.S. history. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
  • FILE - In this July 15, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump turns to wave to people gathered at the clubhouse as his walks to his presidential viewing stand during the U.S. Women's Open Golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Trump’s true financial picture has gotten renewed scrutiny in the wake of a New York Times report in September 2020 that he declared hundreds of millions in losses in recent years, allowing him to pay just $750 in taxes the year he won the presidency, and nothing for 10 of 15 years before that. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
  • In this page from the May 2006 issue of Vine and Branches produced by People of Praise, Amy Coney Barrett is seen at left in the photo at a People of Praise Leaders' Conference for Women in 2006. Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, has close ties to People of Praise, a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head” of the family and faith. Barrett has not commented publicly about her own or her family’s involvement, and a People of Praise spokesman declined to say whether she and her husband are current members. (People of Praise via AP)
  • FILE - In this July 17, 2004, file photo, former GOP National Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot speaks at a news conference for a Bush-Cheney campaign event in Seattle. The former Montana governor and Republican National Committee chair said on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, he will vote for Democrat Joe Biden in the November election, citing character flaws in President Donald Trump. Racicot, 72, served two terms as governor after being elected in 1992 and again 1996, and was RNC chairman in 2002 and 2003. (AP Photo/Jim Bryant, File)
  • U.S Secretary of Defense Mark Esper attends a meeting with Tunisian Defense Minister Brahim Bartagi in Tunis Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived Wednesday in Tunisia, before heading to Algeria and Morocco. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2010 file photo, a horse makes his way through the early morning fog at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. Federal prosecutors say the owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for letting horse manure and urine into the city’s drainage system for at least six years and to spend twice that on ending the discharges. The U.S. Justice Department described the fine to be paid by Churchill Downs Inc. as the largest ever paid by a “concentrated animal feeding” operation under the Clean Water Act, news outlets reported. (AP Photo/Alexander Barkoff, File)
  • Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, right, and District Attorney Jackie Lacey announce the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Lacy says attempted murder charges have been filed against Deonte Lee Murray. He was arrested two weeks ago in connection with a separate carjacking. The deputies suffered critical wounds in the Sept. 12 shooting which was recorded by surveillance video. (AP Photo/Stefanie Dazio)
  • A clerk counts money wagered by a customer at the William Hill sportsbook inside the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City N.J., on March 8, 2019. Caesars Entertainment announced Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, it is buying William Hill for $3.7 billion. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
  • FILE - In this April 10, 2020, file photo, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. A Bismarck marketing agency is rolling out a campaign meant to help stem the tide of rising COVID-19 cases in central North Dakota, and it comes at a time when the state leads the nation in cases per capita. Agency MABU was hired by a governor's task force in Burleigh and Morton counties that is nearly six weeks into its effort and frustrated by the lack of progress in the state's virus hotspot. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this June 2, 2020 file photo, voters wait in a line outside Broad Ripple High School to vote in the Indiana primary in Indianapolis. Indiana election officials are bracing for perhaps 10 times more mail-in ballots for this fall's election than four years ago. The secretary of state office's projection of 1.3 million to 1.8 million mailed ballots means more than half of Indiana's voters might choose that option rather than heading to polling sites for the Nov. 3 election amid coronavirus exposure worries (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2020 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria. The Trump Administration imposed sanctions Wednesday, Sept. 30, on entities and individuals in Syria as part of Washington’s pressure campaign against Assad and his inner circle. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
  • Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends the launch of the Mining and Development Program, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
  • FAA chief Steve Dickson walks around a Boeing 737 MAX, conducting a pre-flight check ahead of take-off from Boeing Field in Seattle on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Dickson, a pilot who flew for the military and Delta Air Lines, was expected to sit in the captain’s seat during a two-hour flight. The Max has been grounded since March 2019, after the second crash. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times via AP, Pool)
  • In this photo provided by the United Nations, the pre-recorded message of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, is played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)
  • This image released by LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions shows Alicia Vikander as Gloria Steinem, left, and Janelle Monae as Dorothy Pitman Hughes in a scene from "The Glorias," premiering Wednesday on Amazon Prime. (LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions via AP)
  • FILE- In this July 30, 2020, file photo, boxes of illegal and legal vote-by-mail ballots are shown at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department in Doral, Fla., as the the Miami-Dade County canvassing board meets to verify signatures on vote-by-mail ballots for the state's Aug. 18 primary election Florida Democrats are building a substantial lead in mail-in ballot requests for November's presidential election, but questions remain about whether that will be a significant advantage for Joe Biden as he tries to wrest the nation's largest swing state from President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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