Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least three Ukrainians including a child on Tuesday, triggering widespread emergency power cuts and prompting neighboring Poland to scramble jets. The attacks, days after another round of U.S.-led talks to end the nearly four-year-old war, hit energy facilities in western regions the hardest,...
Trump Says Anybody That Disagrees With Him Will Never Be Fed Chair
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants the next chairman of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates if the markets are doing well, adding that "anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman." — (Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington, Editing by Bhargav Acharya)
‘60 Minutes’ Report on Salvadoran Prison Pops up Online After Being Pulled by CBS
A "60 Minutes" report on a Salvadoran mega-prison housing U.S.-deported migrants spread online on Monday, a day after CBS News pulled the segment before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it needed more reporting. The segment, which included allegations that Venezuelan deportees sent to the prison were tortured and raised questions...
Fresno Farmers Can Get Paid to Save Groundwater
Money is available to growers within the Fresno Irrigation District to help cover the cost of improving irrigation systems and to increase on-farm groundwater recharge. A webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 3 p.m. will walk growers through the process of applying for funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, part...
Trump Critic Ben Sasse Says He Has Terminal Pancreatic Cancer
Ben Sasse, a Republican former senator from Nebraska and a former president of the University of Florida, announced Tuesday that he had received a diagnosis of terminal Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “Since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase,” Sasse, 53, wrote in...
Two Men Found Guilty of UK Plot to Kill Hundreds of Jews as IS Fears Grow
Two men were found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kill hundreds in an Islamic State-inspired gun rampage against the Jewish community in England, a planned attack investigators say demonstrates the resurgent risk posed by the militant group. Police and prosecutors said Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, who...
What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025?
This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Previously, I spoke with the Rev. Timothy Keller, President Jimmy Carter, evangelical writer Beth Moore, professor Elaine Pagels and others. Here I speak with Bart Ehrman, a prominent New Testament scholar at the University of North Carolina and the author or editor of more than...
Trump Flew on Epstein Jet Eight Times in the ’90s, According to Prosecutor Email
President Donald Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private jet "many more times than previously has been reported," according to an email from a New York prosecutor that forms part of a new batch of documents about Epstein that were released on Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department....
Trump Announces New ‘Trump Class’ of Warships
President Donald Trump announced Monday the construction of a new “Trump class” of warships that would anchor what he called a “golden fleet” for the U.S. Navy, fulfilling a long-held goal to give a personal makeover to a fleet of ships he described as “old and tired and obsolete.” The...
UC Merced Is 20 Years Old. Is Public University Meeting Its Goals?
Sean Malloy was in the middle of a job interview in 2005 when he saw what he described as a “brown wasteland of construction equipment.” It was the future site of the University of California, Merced campus. College officials drove him out to see the university on a scorching summer...