Pop superstar Taylor Swift has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block a bedding company from securing a federal trademark featuring the phrase "Swift Home," arguing it would confuse shoppers. Swift's company TAS Rights Management LLC told the agency in a filing on Wednesday the cursive "Swift" in Cathay...
Tulare County Authorities Arrest Porterville Man After Child Exploitation Investigation
A 22-year-old Porterville man was arrested following a three-month investigation into the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said. Detectives with the Sheriff’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit took Dustin Ramsey into custody during the execution of a search warrant at his residence...
Kern County Authorities Arrest Suspect After Seizing 55 Pounds of Meth, 1,499 Marijuana Plants
Authorities arrested a 22-year-old man and dismantled a large-scale methamphetamine conversion lab in a rural farm area west of Delano after executing search warrants that led to the seizure of about 55 pounds of methamphetamine, about 100 gallons of methamphetamine in solution, five firearms, and the eradication of 1,499 marijuana...
Fresno Police Officer Faces Decertification for Incident With Ex-Girlfriend
A state agency on police standards has recommended decertification for a Fresno police officer accused of making false calls about an ex-girlfriend. Police responded to the apartment of the woman and her son, after Khammouane Kevin Thakham, a 32-year veteran of the department, allegedly called police and claimed a disturbance...
Fresno Unified Workers Air Concerns About Layoffs, Hiring Freezes at Board Meeting
Fresno Unified's classified workers, alongside union leaders and educators, unloaded at the School Board meeting Wednesday night, opposing possible layoffs, hiring freezes, and denied raises. “Any decision that reduces or destabilizes operations at schools will inevitably impact (student) learning conditions,” grounds worker Albert Rojas said. “It is disappointing to see...
Is ChatGPT Down Again? Here Is What We Know
OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a possible outage Thursday, according to Downdetector.com. More than 2,000 users have reported an issue at 1:28 PT. OpenAI’s status page has not indicated an issue at this time. ChatGPT had an issue on Tuesday where the platform had “GPT 5.2 Elevated Error Rates," according to OpenAI's...
Chloe Kim, Once a Teenage Phenom, Loses to a New One
The Olympics, more than any other sporting event, has a way of anointing young stars quickly. Nobody knows that more than Chloe Kim, the American who trounced the snowboarding halfpipe field at age 17 in 2018 and repeated in 2022 to become a global star. But on Thursday, Kim, now...
US Congress Names Press Gallery for Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday named its press gallery after Frederick Douglass, 150 years after the famed 19th-century orator and abolitionist became the first Black member of the congressional press corps. Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a new sign reading "Frederick Douglass Press...
CIA Makes New Push to Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants
Just weeks after a dramatic purge of China's top general, the CIA is moving to capitalize on any resulting discord with a new public video targeting potential informants in the Chinese military. The U.S. spy agency on Thursday rolled out the video depicting a disillusioned mid-level Chinese military officer, in...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. Undoing a Pillar of Climate Policy The action is a key...