The city of Fresno is headed for a legal showdown to evict the operator of the city-owned Granite Park Sports Complex. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Maria G. Diaz on Friday denied the city's motion for summary judgment. She ruled there are too many disputed facts between the city and...
X Down for Thousands of Users Friday, Downdetector Reports
X, formerly Twitter, experienced a possible outage Friday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 21,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 2:10 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to...
Meta Targets May 20 for First Wave of Layoffs, More Cuts Later
Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The Facebook and Instagram owner will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that...
Tulare County Authorities Investigate Body Found in Earlimart
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office is investigating a man found dead in Earlimart, the agency said in a statement. Deputies were called to the area of Avenue 56 and Highway 99 on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. When deputies arrived, they found a man dead with a cause of death that...
2,500 Volunteers Can’t Wait to Make Fresno Sparkle on Saturday
Everywhere you look Saturday morning, you're bound to see Fresno residents cleaning up their city. That's because Beautify Fresno's annual spring-cleaning blitz will encompass 25 individual cleanup and beautification projects across the city. And when the dirty work is done and the work gloves are put away, there will be...
RFK Backtracks, Says Measles Vaccine Is Safe and Effective ‘for Most People’
In a sharp break with his past rhetoric, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered a qualified embrace of the measles vaccine Thursday, as President Donald Trump named a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whose views on vaccination are more conventional than Kennedy’s. In back-to-back...
How Trump’s Giant Arch Would Compare to Others Across the World
The federal Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday preliminarily approved plans for a hulking 250-foot “triumphal arch” to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, one of several construction projects President Donald Trump has conjured up in an effort to leave his aesthetic mark on Washington. Despite the preliminary approval, the panel’s vice...
Lilly’s Obesity Pill Draws 1,390 US Prescriptions in Launch Week
Eli Lilly's newly launched weight-loss pill was prescribed 1,390 times in the U.S. in its first week of sales, according to analysts who cited IQVIA data, indicating that its push into oral obesity treatments is gaining early traction. Investors are closely watching the rollout as competition intensifies between Lilly and...
Ford Recalls About 1.4 Million Pickup Trucks Over Gearshift Issue, NHTSA Says
Ford is recalling about 1.4 million F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. following a U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into reports of unexpected downshifts, the regulator said on Friday. The NHTSA said Ford was aware of two "potentially" related injuries and one accident, and that dealers would update...
Frozen Lasagna Dispute Shows How Arbitrary California Tax Law Can Be
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration oversees the collection of sales taxes by more than a half million retail sellers, ranging from giants such as Amazon and Walmart to one-person internet sellers. The agency audits retailers’...