The California Interscholastic Federation announced follow-up procedures to its pilot entry process for the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships, clarifying how additional entries for biological female student-athletes in select events will be handled and also changing the rules for awarding medals. The update comes amid national attention and...
Get Ready for Several Years of Killer Heat, Top Weather Forecasters Warn
WASHINGTON — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast. There's an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it's even...
Harvard Agrees to Relinquish Early Photos of Slaves, Ending a Long Legal Battle
BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects' descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather...
Fed Minutes: Uncertainty ‘Elevated’ as Risks of Higher Inflation and Unemployment Rise
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials agreed earlier this month to hold off on any interest-rate moves while they evaluated the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs on inflation, unemployment, and the broader economy. According to minutes from their May 6-7 meeting, released Wednesday, "almost all" of the 19 officials that...
Is This Weekend’s 100-Plus Degree Heat a Hint on What’s Coming This Summer?
If you bet that Fresno would escape the month of May without seeing triple-digit temperatures, get ready to pay up. After a couple days of 90-degree heat this week in Fresno, Friday’s high is forecast to soar to 102 degrees, and Saturday could see a scorching 105 degrees, National Weather...
Silence on E. Coli Outbreak Highlights How Trump Team’s Changes Undermine Food Safety
Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad, according to a lawsuit...
COVID’s New Variant May Be Driving Up Cases in Some Parts of the World, WHO Says
COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions. New Variant Detected in U.S. Travelers Airport screening in the...
Fresno Man Pleads Guilty to $1 Million PPP Loan Fraud
A Fresno man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $1 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds by submitting false applications for Paycheck Protection Program loans, authorities said. Gurjeet Bath, 37, admitted to one count of theft of government property, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith. Prosecutors said Bath...
Iran Hangs a Man Convicted of Spying for Israel
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has hanged a man convicted of spying for Israel, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday. According to the reports, Pedram Madani was hanged after Iran's supreme court upheld a death sentence issued by a lower court. The official IRNA news agency said Madani had visited Israel...
California Opens Track-and-Field Finals to More Girls After Success of Trans Athlete
SACRAMENTO — The governing board for California high school sports is changing its competition rules at this weekend's state track-and-field championships to allow more girls to take part amid controversy over the participation of a trans student-athlete. The California Interscholastic Federation said it was extending access for more "biological female"...