Roughly half of voters support President Donald Trump’s deportations and his handling of the border with Mexico, but a sizable majority believes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone too far, according to a poll from The New York Times and Siena University. Fifty percent of voters said that they...
US Threatens to Starve Iraq of Its Oil Dollars Over Iranian Influence, Sources Say
Washington has threatened senior Iraqi politicians with sanctions targeting the Iraqi state - including potentially its critical oil revenues - should armed groups backed by Iran be included in the next government, four sources told Reuters. The warning is the starkest example yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to curb Iran-linked...
TikTok Reaches Deal for New US Joint Venture to Avoid American Ban
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company to avoid a U.S. ban on the popular social media app used by more than 200 million Americans. The deal is a milestone for the short video app...
Fresno Police Arrest Three in Separate Incidents Involving US Postal Service Employees
Three people were arrested this week in two unrelated incidents involving assaults or threats against U.S. Postal Service employees in Fresno, the Fresno Police Department said in a statement. In the first incident, officers responded around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday near North Marks and West Dakota avenues to a report of...
Bid to Rein in Trump’s Venezuela War Powers Fails in US House
U.S. House of Representatives Republicans narrowly defeated a resolution on Thursday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without the authorization of Congress, days after a similar measure failed in the Senate. The House voted 215 to 215, a tie that defeated the resolution...
Madera Man Arrested for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material
The Madera County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 32-year-old Madera resident Wednesday following an investigation into the distribution of child sexual abuse material. Bryan Francis Gittings was taken into custody after Madera County detectives, with assistance from the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the FBI, served a...
German Chancellor Urges Europe to Cut Red Tape and Spend Big on Defense
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, urged European leaders on Thursday to strengthen their militaries and shed bureaucracy to survive in an international order whose “very foundations have been shaken” by Russia, China and the United States. Echoing Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, Merz used a...
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
DAVOS, Switzerland — In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Donald Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II. Trump used a keynote speech at the World...
Trump Administration Cuts off Funding for Fetal Tissue Research. Again.
The National Institutes of Health said Thursday it is ending support for all research that makes use of human fetal tissue, eliminating funding for projects both within and outside of the agency. A ban instituted in June 2019 by the first Trump administration ended all research done at the NIH...
Vance Defends ICE During Visit to Minneapolis Following Weeks of Unrest
Vice President JD Vance delivered a broad defense of the thousands of federal agents leading an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, arguing that "far-left agitators" and uncooperative local officials are to blame for chaos on the streets. Vance's visit to the city marked a renewed effort by President Donald...