Wildfire smoke threatens California vineyard impacted by 2020 blaze: “It tasted like licking an ashtray”

[ad_1] The hot and dry weather in the West creates the perfect conditions for wildfires. One currently burning in central Oregon, the Flat Fire, is threatening nearly 4,000 homes — at least four have been destroyed, officials say. Another wildfire is threatening vineyards in Northern California.    The Pickett Fire, the largest wildfire in the…

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Judge blocks deportation of Guatemalan children, saying justification “crumbled like a house of cards”

[ad_1] A federal judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. government from deporting Guatemalan children who don’t have orders of deportation or voluntary departure, saying a Trump administration effort to remove them earlier this month was based on a faulty justification. Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was…

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