A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began the mass trial of over 400 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang, commonly known as MS-13, in a case involving more than 47,000 crimes prosecutors say were committed between 2012 and 2022. Prosecutors said the 486 defendants ordered homicides, feminicides, extortion, arms...
Fresno Police Arrest Man After Alleged Attack in Front of Children
A 26-year-old man was arrested Monday after police say he assaulted a woman in a domestic violence incident while violating a protective order. According to Fresno Police Department, officers responded to the scene where the suspect, identified as Israel Perez, allegedly punched the victim on both sides of her face,...
Fresno House Fire Turns Into Midnight Rescue Mission as Flames Trap Two
Two people were rescued from a burning home early Tuesday morning and taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation after a structure fire escalated to a third-alarm response, according to the Fresno Fire Department. Firefighters were called just before 1:20 a.m. to the 2500 block of E. Buckingham Way, where...
Internal Emails Show How Fringe Groups Fueled Sheriff Chad Bianco’s Ballot Seizure
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In the spring of 2022, a woman named Shelby Bunch began appearing at government hearings in Riverside County, demanding that officials there address what she believed was an epidemic of fraud in local elections. Bunch often introduced herself...
Florida Begins Criminal Inquiry Into ChatGPT
MIAMI — Florida’s attorney general said Tuesday that the state had opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI, based on a review of messages between the chatbot and the man accused of killing two people at Florida State University last year. The attorney general, James Uthmeier,...
Civil Rights Group Says It Is Under Investigation by Justice Dept.
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, said Tuesday that it was under investigation by the Justice Department over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. Bryan Fair, interim CEO of the group, said in a video that the Trump administration had “made...
Fresno Faces Soaking Tuesday Storms. How Long Will It Last?
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm are expected Tuesday in the Fresno area, with a high near 64 and a 100% chance of precipitation, according to the National Weather Service. East-southeast winds around 10 mph are expected, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and...
Senators Urge US Postal Service Not to Implement Trump Mail-in Voting Order
A group of 37 Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the U.S. Postal Service not to comply with a March 31 executive order issued by President Donald Trump tightening rules on mail‑in voting. The senators, including Gary Peters, Alex Padilla, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Maria Cantwell, said the order...
Exclusive: Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters....
Vance’s Trip to Peace Talks on Hold
Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Pakistan for a second round of negotiations with Iran has been put on hold after Iran failed to respond to U.S. positions, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. Iran, for its part, said it had not yet decided whether...