In election after election last year, Democrats had big wins everywhere. Voters who swung hard to President Trump swung hard back. These moments are incredibly rare. Trust me. It may be discordant, then, to believe the party is still in crisis. It’s much easier to hope that the storm has...
Tulare County Sheriff Adds Fugitive to Top 10 Most Wanted List
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office has added a new fugitive to its Top 10 Most Wanted list. Erik Brayan Sandoval, 33, of Ivanhoe, is wanted for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the department said in a statement. Authorities say he is known to frequent the Orosi and...
US Lays Out a Glittering Plan for Gaza, Including Skyscrapers
The Trump administration laid out an ambitious and highly speculative vision for the future of the Gaza Strip at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, as Washington tries to advance the thorny ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The presentation by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, featured...
Microsoft Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Microsoft experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 2,000 users reported problems with Microsoft Outlook on Downdetector at the time of publication, along with more than 1,500 reports involving Microsoft 365 and nearly 300 each for the Microsoft Store and Microsoft...
EU Meets to Reassess Relationship With US Over Greenland Crisis
EU leaders heaved a sigh of relief over Donald Trump's U-turn on Greenland as they gathered for an emergency summit in Brussels, while saying that Europe's relationship with Washington, though still crucial, had taken a hit. The Thursday evening summit was convened before Trump stepped back on threats to impose...
ICE Has Detained Four Children From Minnesota School District, Officials Say
U.S. immigration authorities detained at least four children including a 5-year-old from a Minneapolis-area school district this month as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, school district and city officials said on Thursday. The Republican administration has deployed about 3,000 officers around Minnesota's largest city, where residents have been...
Derek Carr Headlines Sterling Class of Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
It's easy to see why the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame is moving its annual enshrinement dinner to the downtown convention center. The latest inductees will surely draw a huge crowd. Four-time Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Carr headlines a 67th class of inductees that is packed with some of the...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Starting in late December, users on the social media...
Goldenvoice Launches Club Darc Electronic Music Series at San Francisco Waterfront
Goldenvoice, the organizers behind the Portola festival and the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, announced the launch of Club Darc, a seasonal electronic music club experience set to run in San Francisco from late February through mid-May. “We’re very excited to bring yet another new dance music experience to...
Could Adventist, Santé Reach a Deal Before Deadline? Hospital Is ‘Hopeful’
Following a GV Wire report, an Adventist Health executive says he is "hopeful" a deal will be reached with Santé Health System before a February deadline, meaning 2,600 people in Fresno and Kings counties will be able to keep their current providers. Both the hospital and the physician network recently...