Fresno State on Friday announced the 2024 Graduate Deans Medalists. The eight schools and colleges at Fresno State, along with the Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, each selected an outstanding student to honor as part of the class of 2024 Graduate Deans’ Medalists. The deans selected an undergraduate...
Yellen Says Threats to Democracy Risk US Economic Growth, an Indirect Jab at Trump
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argues that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy — an indirect jab at Donald Trump. Yellen's Address in Arizona Yellen delivered an address Friday in Arizona, using economic data to paint a picture of how disregard for America's democratic processes...
New Sea Route for Gaza Aid on Track. Treating Starving Children Is a Priority
FITZGERALD — On-the-ground preparations are on track in Gaza for humanitarian workers to be ready to deliver food, treatment for starving children and other urgent assistance by early or mid-May when the American military expects to finish building a floating pier to receive the shipments, a U.S. Agency for International...
As Border Debate Shifts Right, Sen. Alex Padilla Emerges as Persistent Counterforce for Immigrants
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden had a question. “Is it true?” Biden asked Sen. Alex Padilla, referencing the roughly 25% of U.S. students in kindergarten through high school who are Latino. Padilla said the question came as he was waiting with the president in a back room at a library...
At Time of Rising Antisemitism, Holocaust Survivors Take on Denial and Hate in New Digital Campaign
DUESSELDORF, Germany — Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother where taken from the Jewish ghetto of Chernivtsi and put on a cramped cattle wagon waiting to take them to their deaths. It was 1941, and Romanians collaborating with Germany's Nazis were rounding up tens of...
FUSD Trustees Name Misty Her as Interim Superintendent. National Search Yet to Start
In a show of unity that has been absent in the Fresno Unified boardroom for more than a month, trustees voted 7-0 to appoint Deputy Superintendent Misty Her as the district's interim superintendent, pending approval of a new contract. Superintendent Bob Nelson will remain on hand, with a new job...
Gov. Newsom Appoints Judges for Fresno, Merced Counties
Raj Singh Badhesha, a lawyer with the Fresno City Attorney's office, is trading the dais for the bench. Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Badhesha, a 40-year-old Democrat from Selma, to a Fresno County Superior Court judgeship on Friday. The governor appoints judges to fill vacancies in most circumstances. This is Newsom's...
Assemblymember Soria Dodges Questions About Defamation Lawsuit
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear an appeal from Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria, who is the subject of a defamation lawsuit by a Fresno city councilmember. The impact: Councilmember Mike Karbassi's litigation against Soria will resume in a Fresno courtroom in August. On Friday, GV Wire sought comment...
Israel Briefs US on Evacuation Plan for Palestinians Ahead of Planned Rafah Assault
WASHINGTON — Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah aimed at rooting out Hamas militants, according to U.S. officials familiar with the talks. The officials, who were not authorized to comment...
Canadian Police Make 3 Arrests in Sikh Separatist’s Slaying That Sparked a Spat with India
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian police said they arrested three suspects Friday in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that become the center of a diplomatic spat with India, and are investigating possible ties between the detainees and the Indian government. Details of the Arrests Three Indian...