A U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance met with senior Iranian negotiators Saturday afternoon in Pakistan, officials from Iran and the White House said. It was a historic encounter between decades-old adversaries as they sought to broker peace after more than a month of war. The negotiating session,...
Growing List of Orban Loyalists Defecting Before Critical Election
BUDAPEST, Hungary — When Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary this past week, he spoke at and praised Mathias Corvinus Collegium, an educational institution set up to create a new conservative elite in step with the Russia-friendly and MAGA-aligned views of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Vance’s laudatory remarks on Wednesday...
Trump Says US Forces Are ‘Clearing’ Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday posted on social media that the U.S. military has started to clear the Strait of Hormuz and that all of Iran's mine-laying ships have been sunk. "We're now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote in a Truth...
Fresno Judge Gives Lemoore Man a Life Sentence for Fatal DUI Crash
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Brian Alvarez sentenced a 60-year-old Lemoore man with five previous DUIs to life in prison on Thursday after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder. The sentence followed a trial in December at which the jury deliberated less than 30 minutes before finding Marvin Vance...
Fresno City Council District 7 Candidates Forum Set for April 20
GV Wire, in partnership with the Community Media Access Collaborative, will host a candidate forum for the open Fresno City Council District 3 seat. The forum is set for Monday, April 20, at 6 p.m. Candidates confirmed to attend include Fresno businessman AJ Rassamni, attorney Nav Gurm, and community activist...
How Israel Persuaded Trump to Take the US to War With Iran
The black SUV carrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House just before 11 a.m. on Feb. 11. The Israeli leader, who had been pressing for months for the United States to agree to a major assault on Iran, was whisked inside with little ceremony, out of view...
Blue-Collar Work Has Plateaued, Narrowing Options for Young Workers
In June, the White House said President Donald Trump’s signature package of tax cuts would “unleash our economy and deliver a Blue-Collar BOOM.” The president and his vice president, JD Vance, have also pledged that Trump’s tariff campaign would revive manufacturing jobs, including those in the skilled trades. Instead, the...
Splashdown! Artemis II Astronauts Conclude 10-Day Moon Mission
HOUSTON — The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth's atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in over half a century. NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion...
‘Hello to the New World Superpower’: Iran’s Africa Missions Troll Trump
JOHANNESBURG — After President Donald Trump demanded that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz in an Easter Sunday social media post, the Iranian Embassy in Zimbabwe responded with a snarky quip on the social platform X: “We’ve lost the keys.” Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February,...
Swalwell Faces Sex Assault Accusation as He Runs for California Governor
SACRAMENTO — A sexual assault accusation against Rep. Eric Swalwell of California was published by The San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, as several staff members quit his campaign for governor and key supporters abandoned him. The article did not name the woman who made the accusation but gave detailed descriptions...