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The monitoring committee of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the US parliament, is investigating Louis DeJoy, the boss of the USPS state postal service, The Washington Post reports.   The Democrats, who are in the majority in the House of Representatives, want DeJoy to be immediately suspended after allegations of campaign money fraud. The Washington Post previously reported that DeJoy had asked his former employees for donations for friendly Republican politicians. Employees who donated were subsequently reimbursed for that money in the form of bonuses. Such campaign finance practices are prohibited by federal law in the United States. Chuck Schumer, Democrats in the Senate group chairman, already called on the North Carolina prosecutor on Monday to investigate D...

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five areas on Sunday (local time) over wildfires.   These include Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego, the governor's office said in a statement. Numerous wildfires have ravaged the US state of California for three weeks. Eight people died and about 3,300 buildings destroyed. Since Friday evening, a major fire has been raging in the area around Fresno that has already destroyed more than 18,000 hectares of nature. The US authorities evacuated at least 200 campers stranded by the wildfires by air. According to the local fire service, 20 to 30 people were injured, some seriously. As far as is known, there have been no deaths. Injured people are transferred to Fresno Yosemite International Airport,...

President Trump appears on TV for an interview shortly before heading to the violence and looting-ridden city of Kenosha.   Presenter Laura Ingraham receives him in her program 'the angle of Ingraham' for the right-wing conservative TV network FOX News. Trump wants to present himself in the election campaign as the man of law and order and criticizes the Democratic authorities of cities where it has been restless since May. The violent outbreaks were triggered by the harsh police crackdown on black suspects, such as in Minneapolis in May and more than a week ago in Kenosha. Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin, where Kenosha is located, has asked the president to cancel his visit for fear of adding fuel to the fire. It was quiet on the night from Sunday to Monday for the first time ...

Police in Kenosha, USA, fired tear gas canisters at protesters who refused to leave. Demonstrations against racism and excessive police brutality were held in the Wisconsin city after police shot an unarmed black man.   For the second night in a row, there were skirmishes after shocking video footage of the shooting incident came out. It shows how 29-year-old Jacob Blake is shot in the back several times by the police while his three children watch. Shortly after curfews began at 8 p.m. local time, police began dispelling protesters at the courthouse with tear gas. Officers began firing tear gas canisters after protesters threw water bottles at police. Some protesters then threw fireworks and more bottles at the police.

Wildfires in the US state of California have put thousands of people to flight. Nearly 7,000 firefighters have been deployed against the fires, which ravage both the north and south of the state.   The extreme heat in the western United States is exacerbating the situation, Gavin Newsom warns. Newsom has asked other states also to send firefighters and equipment to California. He says there are 23 major fires. In total, there have been more than 360 wildfires in recent days, many of which were caused by lightning strikes. A fire service spokesperson says most small fires could be extinguished quickly. He called on residents of the threatened regions to immediately comply with evacuation orders. On Tuesday, Governor Newsom already declared a state of emergency in his state. This a...

A rare Pokémon card raised $ 90,000 at an online auction in the United States.   According to the auction house Heritage Auction, a collector paid that amount for a so-called Trainer card that gave access to a secret tournament in 1999. That special ticket was the top prize in regional qualifying events. Since there were seven there at the time, Heritage assumes the same number of this type of map exists. The auctioned copy is in a protective case and is in excellent condition. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed. The trading card game Pokémon was introduced at the end of the last century and became extremely popular in a short time. As a rule, rarer and more expensive cards offer more significant winning opportunities. A digital version of the game was also released in...