President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving...
Will Judge Allow Fresno Zoo Captivity Case to Go Forward?
The Nonhuman Rights Project is asking a judge to order the Fresno Chaffee Zoo to explain why it is “illegally imprisoning” three elephants at its Roeding Park attraction. The radical notion the group's lawyers are putting forward is that the three elephants are entitled to habeas corpus rights, which...
Ex-Fresno State Cavinder Twins Nearing $2 Million In NIL Deals, More Ahead
One year ago, on July 1, Fresno State basketball stars Haley and Hanna Cavinder officially ushered in college sports’ name, image and likeness era, inking sponsorships with Boost Mobile and Six Star Pro Nutrition at 12:01 a.m. Eastern—the first minute that active NCAA athletes had ever been permitted to...
Ian Bremmer: Why Ending Roe Is Only the Beginning
The US is now a much more divided country than it was almost 50 years ago, when the Supreme Court granted the constitutional right to abortion — recently overturned by the court. Interestingly, most of the rest of the world is moving in the opposite direction, including in majority-Catholic...
Zakaria: The West’s Ukraine Strategy Is in Danger of Failing
There’s a famous saying that no military plan survives its first contact with the enemy. The greatest theorist on war, Carl von Clausewitz, often explained that strategy must be dynamic, constantly changing and rejuvenating itself. In his famous treatise “On War,” he wrote that some generals “consider only unilateral action,...
Biden Job Approval Not Budging as U.S. Satisfaction Dips
After a month that encompassed a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the start of the Jan. 6 committee hearings in Congress, and average gas prices hitting $5 a gallon amid rising inflation, President Joe Biden's job approval rating didn't change between May and June, holding at 41%. Biden's...
Biden’s Reckless Spending Set off Inflation. Can You Believe He Wants to Add More?
The American people’s confidence in the presidency has plummeted 15 points on President Biden’s watch — falling to 23 percent, according to a new Gallup poll, its lowest point on record. One of the many reasons for this collapse, columnist Mark Thiessen says, is the worst inflation in four decades. And Biden...
What to Know About California’s Latest COVID Surge
California is in the midst of its third-largest COVID surge of the pandemic, with roughly 19,000 new cases being reported each day, according to The New York Times’s tracker. The true number of people falling sick is undoubtedly even higher, since most at-home tests aren’t included in official case counts....
Oil From U.S. Reserves Sent Overseas as Gasoline Prices Stay High
More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency reserves release to lower domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs. The export of crude...
Jeff Bezos Calls out Joe Biden’s Latest Inflation Claim
After President Joe Biden called on companies running gas stations to lower the price of gas, Jeff Bezos accused the president of misleading the public or said he lacked a "basic" understanding of the forces that actually drive prices.' "Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White...