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• Pelosi agrees to term limit to seal US House speaker job
• Insurance claims for latest California wildfires top $9 billion
• Ex-lawyer blames Trump 'dirty deeds' as he gets 3 years

Pelosi agrees to term limit to seal US House speaker job Posted: 13 Dec 2018 12:15 AM PST Veteran Democrat Nancy Pelosi took a step Wednesday toward regaining her old job as powerful speaker of the US House of Representatives. The new assortment of lawmakers features more women and minorities and also a slew of younger representatives. With a new-look chamber about to get operating, some lawmakers have been complaining for weeks that Pelosi represents the old guard. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Insurance claims for latest California wildfires top $9 billion Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:14 PM PST Insurance claims from the recent spate of California wildfires, including one ranked as the most deadly and destructive in state history, have topped $9 billion and are expected to grow, the state insurance commissioner reported on Wednesday. The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017, most of that from more than a dozen blazes that swept a large swath of wine country north of San Francisco Bay, killing 46 people. This year, the Camp Fire that erupted on Nov. 8 has accounted for the bulk of the claims, just over $7 billion of the total. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Ex-lawyer blames Trump 'dirty deeds' as he gets 3 years Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:07 PM PST Donald Trump's former lawyer apologized Wednesday for covering up the "dirty deeds" of his ex-boss as he was sentenced to three years for multiple crimes including hush money payments implicating the US president. Pleading for leniency in a packed Manhattan courtroom before US District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, Michael Cohen said he had been led astray by misplaced admiration for Trump. Cohen's lawyers had argued for no jail time after he admitted charges brought by federal prosecutors in New York of tax evasion, providing false statements to a bank and illegal campaign contributions. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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