Iranians have returned to the streets this week to mourn those killed by security forces during last month's anti-government demonstrations, sparking some new crackdowns in an echo of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought down the U.S.-backed Shah. The anti-Shah revolutionaries turned Shi'ite Muslim memorial processions 40 days after each...
Kern County Fire Helicopter Crew Rescues Injured Person in Jaw Bone Canyon
A Kern County Fire Department helicopter crew completed a hoist rescue after a person was injured in a canyon in the Jaw Bone area, the Kern County Fire Department reported. Helicopter 407, working in coordination with the department’s Emergency Communications Center, responded to the incident on Friday, Feb. 13. Officials...
Trump Adviser Hassett Suggests New York Fed Researchers Be Punished for Tariffs Argument
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, on Wednesday said those behind a New York Federal Reserve research paper that argued the costs of tariffs are borne mostly by Americans should be punished for what he described as shoddy scholarship. "The paper is an embarrassment," Hassett said...
Mikaela Shiffrin Exorcises Ghost of Olympic Past
After a couple of disappointing races, Mikaela Shiffrin was down to one event Wednesday in her bid to end her poor Olympic stretch. Luckily for her, it was her best event, the slalom, in which she has won nine World Cup titles, four world championships and an Olympic gold medal...
US Senate Committee to Hold Confirmation Hearing for Trump Surgeon General Pick Next Week
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold its delayed confirmation hearing for Casey Means, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, next week, the committee said on Wednesday. The hearing will take place on February 25, the HELP committee said in a statement. It...
YouTube Down for More Than a Hundred Thousand Users, Downdetector Reports
YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 390,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 5:24 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reported issues with the application....
Will Transportation Experts’ New ‘Flexible’ Tax Plan Fix Fresno County Roads?
A group revealed their plan to fix Fresno County roads, which could give voters two competing proposals on the November ballot if this plan and a rival measure get the necessary signatures. The Fix Our Roads Fresno County Initiative team unveiled their half-cent spending plan that, if passed, will replace...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says Trump Exerting Undue Pressure on Him
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said U.S. President Donald Trump was exerting undue pressure on him in trying to secure a resolution to the nearly four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. Zelenskiy, in an interview with U.S. website Axios published on Tuesday, also said any plan requiring Ukraine to give up...
Trump’s Immigration Approval Hits New Low, According to Reuters/Ipsos Poll
U.S. public approval of Donald Trump's immigration policies fell to the lowest level since his return to the White House, amid signs he is losing support among American men on the issue, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Just 38% of respondents in the four-day poll, which closed on Monday, said Trump was doing a good job on immigration, a priority issue for...
Bayer Agrees to Pay $7.25 Billion to Settle Roundup Lawsuits
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotech giant, said Tuesday that it had reached an agreement that would pay plaintiffs $7.25 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that claimed the weedkiller Roundup caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The agreement was submitted to a Missouri circuit court judge in St. Louis, and...