Whether it be housing or commercial real estate, economic slowdowns stifled growth in Fresno County in 2024. But after years of declines, experts expect a turnaround soon. The Fresno County Economic Development Corporation brought out a panel of experts to discuss housing construction and sales, major commercial real estate purchases,...
First California EV Mandates Hit Automakers This Year. Most Are Not Even Close
California's effort to have no new gas-powered vehicles sold in the state by 2035 is beginning, and it requires 35% of all 2026 models sold this year to be zero-emission. Dealers say they aren't close to fulfilling the mandate for zero-emission vehicles and are nervously wondering what the future holds...
Kushner in Israel as Trapped Hamas Fighters Issue Bedevils Gaza Truce Progress
JERUSALEM/CAIRO — U.S. mediators met Israel's prime minister on Monday with attention turning to the second, far more complex, phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal and the immediate problem of a standoff over a group of Hamas fighters still holed up in tunnels. The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump's...
Trump Maintains Request for Supreme Court to Halt Judge’s Food Aid Funding Order
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday told the U.S. Supreme Court that it continues to seek a halt of a judge's order requiring it to fully fund food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month even as lawmakers take steps toward ending the federal government shutdown. Lawyers for the...
8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Advance GOP Plan to End Shutdown
Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke with the party late Sunday to vote with Republicans and advance legislation to end the government shutdown. The compromise measure that passed by a 60-40 vote came with a pledge from Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader, to allow a vote in...
Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Halt Full Food Stamp Funding
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court late Sunday denied another attempt by the Trump administration to withhold full federal funding for food stamps, the latest twist in the saga over the fate of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. The decision came as Congress inched closer to reopening the government, offering...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
President Donald Trump has granted pardons to his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a wide array of other people accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Justice Department’s pardon attorney. The pardon attorney, Ed Martin, a lawyer who has long supported the...
US Supreme Court to Hear Republican Bid to Limit Counting of Mail-in Ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Mississippi's defense of a state law challenged by Republicans that allows a five-day grace period for mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, a case that could lead to stricter voting rules around the country. The justices took up...
Man Injured in Shooting Outside Madera Supermarket
A man was hospitalized Saturday evening after being shot in the parking lot of the Rancho San Miguel Supermarket in Madera, police said. Officers arrived to find an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Madera...
Wall Street Gains as Hopes of Government Reopening Bolster Sentiment
Wall Street's main indexes gained on Monday, following signs of progress in Washington to end a record government shutdown that has stalled economic data releases and intensified concerns over the state of the economy. On Sunday, senators advanced a House-passed bill in a procedural vote that will be amended to...
US Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Right
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, turned...
US Air Travel Will Fall to a Trickle Due to Shutdown, Sean Duffy Says
WASHINGTON — U.S. flights will be reduced to "a trickle" in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday as the federal shutdown continues because of rising air traffic control staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in remarks that aired on Sunday. Major airlines were dealing with a third day of...