NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief executive of bankruptcy cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was sentenced on Thursday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in December to securities fraud and commodities fraud. Mashinsky's sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan,...
President Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain
President Donald Trump hailed what he called a historic trade agreement with Britain on Thursday — even as he said its details would be finalized in the coming weeks. Trump, speaking from the Oval Office with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain on speakerphone, said it would include billions of...
Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say
A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gunshot wound, clutching his side. Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not to make...
Proposed Medicaid Cuts Put Vulnerable Republicans in a Political Bind
WASHINGTON — Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., secured his ticket to Washington in November when he defeated a Democratic member of Congress by less than 1 percentage point — just 2,449 votes. Now Evans, 39, is helping to write legislation that could cement his own ticket back home. The first-term Congress...
Fresno Unified Special Ed Bus Drivers Get Answers on Job Security
Fresno Unified bus drivers received good news after months of fearing job loss and campaigning for the students they serve. The School Board approved a new five-year special education transportation contract with Zūm Services Inc. on April 30. Zūm will offer employment to all current drivers in good standing, Fresno...
Trump Says China Tariffs Will Come Down From 145%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he expects there to be substantive negotiations between the United States and China on trade this weekend and predicted that punitive U.S. tariffs on Beijing of 145% would likely come down. Trump's comments, made at the White House while unveiling the...
Reaction to Cardinal Prevost Becoming Pope Leo XIV, First US Pontiff
(Reuters) - Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV, becoming the first U.S. pontiff. Here is the reaction from notable figures: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER "The election of Pope Leo XIV...
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Him to End Humanitarian Parole for 500,000 People From 4 Countries
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries. The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place legal protections for more than 500,000 people from...
House Follows Trump’s Lead With a Vote to Change the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name. President Donald Trump already signed an executive order during his first day in office...
Fresno Art Hop Could Feature Street Vendors Again. Downtown’s Players Are Divvying Up Responsibility
Downtown Fresno interests are close to a solution for how to divide up the responsibility of hosting the thousands of people that come to the area monthly for Art Hop and its associated street fair. The plan is for the Downtown Fresno Partnership to coordinate venues, Tioga-Sequoia Brewing Co. to...