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As Trump pushed for probes of 2020 election, he called acting AG Rosen almost daily

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  President Donald Trump called his acting attorney general nearly every day at the end of last year to alert him to claims of voter fraud or alleged improper vote counts in the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the conversations. The personal pressure campaign, which has not been previously reported, involved repeated phone calls to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in which Trump raised various allegations he had heard about and asked what the Justice Department was doing about the issue. The people familiar with the conversations spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive legal and political issues that are not yet public. Rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls that were written by a top aide to Rosen, Richard Donoghue, who was present for some of the conversations, these people said. Donoghue’s notes could be turned over to Congress in a matter of days, they added, if Trump

Survivors of California’s deadliest wildfire haunted as new blaze nears: ‘I can’t do it again’

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Stacey Hoffman has barely slept the past week, as   the Dixie Fire edged closer   to her new home in Chester, Calif. She spent nights by the window, haunted by her hellish escape from   the 2018 fire that razed thousands of houses , killed at least 85 people and destroyed her community of Paradise in 2018. She left briefly — for a motel in Paradise, where she thought she might be safer.   But work quickly brought Hoffman back to Chester, she said. She sobbed the whole ride home. “I didn’t want to have to run for my life again,” the 39-year-old said Tuesday, as the Dixie Fire burned across the lake from her town. “I can’t do it again.” Dozens of families forced from Paradise and surrounding communities about three years ago have resettled in small towns around Lake Almanor, about 40 miles away, finding comfort in stunning wilderness and shared pain among survivors. But as California’s biggest blaze of the year raged toward that haven this week, they relived a nightmare. Their repeat tra