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...
US Reveals New Details of Alleged Chinese Nuclear Test
A senior U.S. official on Tuesday revealed what he said were new details of an underground nuclear test blast that China allegedly conducted in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw told an event at the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington that a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan...
Trades Workers Begin 4-Day Strike Across CSU System, Including Fresno State
California State University skilled trade workers, including carpenters and electricians, have begun a four-day unfair labor practice strike after not receiving contractually agreed upon raises in July 2025. “CSU is dishonestly trying to use a legal loophole to withhold our raises, falsely stating that it did not receive adequate funding because...
California Preparing Lawsuit Over Trump Administration Vaccine Changes
The state of California is preparing a lawsuit challenging recent federal changes to U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations made by the Trump administration, the state's attorney general said in an interview on Tuesday. Rob Bonta, the attorney general of the most populous U.S. state, also said he would "maybe" be open...
Trump Announces Energy, Critical Mineral Projects in Texas, Ohio, Georgia
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced three projects to be built in the states of Texas, Ohio, and Georgia as part of a $550 billion U.S. investment pledge by Japan. The projects include a gas power plant in Ohio, an oil and liquefied natural gas project in Texas and a...