The fourth-seed Fresno State baseball team knew going into an NCAA regional that it had a tough road to the super regionals. After losing 19-4 to top-seed UCLA on Friday, the Mountain West champion Bulldogs fell 8-3 to second seed UC Irvine 8-3 on Saturday in an elimination game of...
Israeli Forces Open Fire a Kilometer Away From Gaza Aid Site, Killing 3, Health Officials Say
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip opened fire as people headed toward an aid distribution site a kilometer away at around sunrise on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, health officials and a witness said. The military said it fired warning shots...
Trans Athlete in Political Storm Earns, and Shares, First Place in Event
CLOVIS, Calif. — The California athlete at the center of a searing political debate over transgender girls competing in girls’ sports went home a winner Saturday in what is arguably the most competitive state track and field meet in the nation. AB Hernandez, a junior from Jurupa Valley High School...
Trump Budget Proposes Closing Northeast Heating Oil Reserve
ASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's budget proposes to shut as soon as in a few months the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, which stores 1 million barrels of diesel and was designed to protect consumers. The reserve, created in 2000 by former President Bill Clinton, holds enough for roughly...
Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic Rifles
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would not hear a major Second Amendment challenge to a Maryland law banning semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons. The move, over the objections of three conservative justices, let the ban...
1 Officer Killed, 1 Wounded and Another Man Dead in Los Angeles County Shooting
BALDWIN PARK, Calif. — An officer was killed and another wounded while responding to a report of a man shooting rounds with a rifle and a wounded and unresponsive man lying on the sidewalk in a city east of Los Angeles, authorities said Sunday. When the officers arrived to the...
RFK Jr. Says Autism ‘Destroys’ Families. Here’s What Those Families Want You to Know
WASHINGTON — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The 16-year-old’s bedroom is full of notebooks featuring her prose. Sometimes, she quietly recites poetry to get through an outburst...
California Plans to Ban Most Plants Within 5 Feet of Homes for Wildfire Safety
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara and Luca Carmignani, San Diego State University (THE CONVERSATION) - One of the most striking patterns in the aftermath of many urban fires is how much unburned green vegetation remains amid the...
Ukraine and Russia End Their Latest Round of Direct Peace Talks in Istanbul
ISTANBUL — Delegations from Russia and Ukraine ended their latest peace talks Monday in Turkey after just over an hour, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian state media said. Speaking in Vilnius, Lithuania, Zelenskyy said both sides "exchanged documents through the Turkish side, and we are preparing a new release...
Man Attacks Colorado Crowd With Firebombs, 8 People Injured
BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters) - Eight people were injured on Sunday when a 45-year-old man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place, authorities said. Four women and four men between...