Dozens of people attended a community meeting at the Three Rivers Memorial Building as the KNP Complex continued to grow Monday. It has reached nearly 47,000 acres with only 8% containment. Read More at Your Central Valley
To Help U.S. Allies Flee Afghanistan, These Advocates Turned to Iran
Facing growing pressures and fears of the Taliban, advocates turned to Iran to help evacuate Afghan lawmakers desperate to leave the country. Many were hesitant as they would have to weigh whether traveling there would damage their prospects for resettlement in Europe or the United States. Read More at The...
Flying Microchips the Size of a Sand Grain Could Be Used for Population Surveillance
Winged microchips developed by engineers at Northwestern University are being billed as the smallest-ever human-made flying structures. They are as small as a grain of sand and can be carried by the wind as they monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases. Read More at...
Zakaria: To Contain China, Joining the Pacific Trade Pact Might Be More Effective Than New Submarines
Earlier this month, the United States and Britain announced that they were signing an agreement with Australia to share technology for nuclear-powered submarines. Fareed Zakaria believes that this is a sign that geopolitics has moved east and that Asia will be at the center of international affairs for decades to come....
Azerbaijani Police Arrest 2 Iranian Truck Drives on Goris-Kapan Highway
Azerbaijani police at a check point on the Goris-Kapan Highway have arrested two Iranian truck drivers. This comes after several weeks where the highway has been a focal point of the ongoing border standoff, which started in May when Azerbaijani forces breached Armenia’s border. Read More at Asbarez
Clovis Native Becomes TV Voice of NBA’s 76ers
Clovis native and Bay Area sportscaster Kate Scott, a trailblazer as the first female play-by-play announcer for a Golden State Warriors game in March, will become the full-time television voice of the Philadelphia 76ers this season, NBC Sports Philadelphia announced Thursday. You can read a 2020 profile of Kate Scott...
Newsom Vetoes Bill to End Secret Ballot Farmworker Union Elections
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a top-priority bill for the United Farm Workers that would have allowed farmworkers to receive ballots at their homes and fill them out outside of the workplace. Previously, all union elections were held in person as secret ballot elections. Read More at The Sun
Opinion: Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill
The "massive, bloated $3.5 billion spending bill has so much pork that fiscal hawks could eat it for weeks," Adam Guillette says. One piece that hasn’t received much attention, he says, is a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist...
Schumer Mulls Passing Election Reform Without Republicans
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled to Republicans that if they block an upcoming election reform bill, he will look for a path around the chamber's filibuster rule to try to pass it with only Democratic support. Read More at Reuters
Opinion: The Republicans Want No Part of a Debt Ceiling Hike. Good for Them.
House Democrats and the Senate Democrats can pass a vast spending bill, massive tax hikes and a hike in the debt ceiling without a single Republican vote, Hugh Hewitt says, but they'll need all of their colleagues' help after Republicans have been clear that they want no part of it....