A man was killed Monday afternoon in a solo vehicle crash on Auberry Road in Fresno County, authorities said. The Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner's Office identified the deceased as Michael Williams, 72, of Auberry. The California Highway Patrol Communications Center received multiple calls around 1:20 p.m. reporting the crash near Corlew...
Wall Street Edges Higher With Earnings Deluge in Spotlight. Palantir Soars
Wall Street's main indexes rose on Tuesday as Palantir's results aided optimism around the AI trade, while investors geared up for a flood of corporate results through the week. Palantir Technologies jumped 8.6% after upbeat results highlighted demand for its military-grade AI tools, with U.S. defense spending helping lift quarterly...
A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight
WASHINGTON — The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar. “I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week, “and it’s only taken more than...
Iran’s President Backs ‘Fair’ Talks With US as Confrontation Looms
The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Tuesday that he supported “fair and equitable negotiations” with the United States, as regional diplomats work to de-escalate tensions between the two countries. Talks are expected to take place Friday in Istanbul between Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Steve Witkoff, President Donald...
Walmart Hits $1 Trillion in Market Value for the First Time
Walmart became the first retailer ever to hit $1 trillion in market valuation on Tuesday, riding on a year-long rally that has seen its shares rise nearly 26%. The latest milestone for the company came just two weeks after Walmart replaced British drugmaker AstraZeneca in the tech-focused Nasdaq-100 Index, home...
Clintons Agree to Testify in House Epstein Investigation Ahead of Contempt Vote
Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, will testify in a congressional investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a staffer said on Monday. The decision could head off a planned vote in the Republican-led House of Representatives to hold the two prominent Democrats...
FBI, Las Vegas PD Raid Uncovers Bio Materials Connected to Reedley Biolab Owner
The FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department raided two homes connected to the operator of a Reedley biolab arrested in 2023 for improperly selling medical testing equipment. Inside the garages of the two homes connected to Jia Bei Zhu, officers found a "significant volume" of material "consistent in appearance...
Oversight Chair Rejects Clintons’ Offer for Epstein Testimony
WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chair of the Oversight Committee, on Monday rejected an offer from Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, just days before an expected House vote on holding them in criminal contempt of Congress. For months, the Clintons...
Two US Citizens Dead. Legal Immigrants Jailed. This Is Chaos, Not Immigration Enforcement
The killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis has finally shaken the foundations of our country, bringing to light how far to the extreme the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has gone. Two U.S. citizens — a 37-year-old poet and mother of three, and a...
Portland, Oregon, Mayor Calls for ICE to Leave After Children Are Tear-Gassed
The tear-gassing this weekend in Portland, Oregon, of a protest billed as “family friendly” has prompted Portland’s mayor and City Council to consider dramatic new steps, including financial penalties, to try to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of the city. Several thousand protesters — including children, older residents and...