This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Nineteen years ago, during actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governorship, he and the Legislature created a program that would, in theory, reduce California’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases deemed to affect the planet’s climate. The plan, dubbed cap...
Trump Administration Allows Six More States To Restrict Food Stamp Purchases
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday that she has granted waivers to six additional states allowing them to prevent the use of food stamps to purchase certain items, like soft drinks and candy. The administration of President Donald Trump has now allowed 18 states to implement a variety...
Fresno Police Search for Missing Man Last Seen Near Clovis Hospital
Fresno police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing man last seen near Clovis Community Hospital on Nov. 19. Police said Cyrus Williams-Price, who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 160 pounds, was reported missing after he was last spotted in the area. He has...
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
WASHINGTON — Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making an all but certainly futile bid to charge him with undermining public health, diminishing decades of scientific and medical progress and imperiling the health of...
Europeans Discuss Ukraine With Trump at ‘Critical Moment’ for Peace
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany held a call on Wednesday with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss Washington's latest peace efforts to end the war in Ukraine, in what they said was "a critical moment" in the process. Kyiv is under pressure from the White House to secure...
Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: Robert Daniel Allen
December 10, 2025 Most Wanted Person of the Day Suspect Name: Robert Daniel Allen Suspects Date of Birth: January 21, 2000 Physical Description: White Male, 5’ 11, 190 lbs., Brown Hair, Brown Eyes. Charges: Stolen vehicle Warrant Number: F25901140 Synopsis of the Case: Robert Daniel Allen is wanted on a...
Israel Approves Nearly 800 Housing Units in Three West Bank Settlements
Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday, a move condemned by the Palestinian Authority as undermining regional peace efforts. The ultra-nationalist Smotrich, who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state,...
Race to Replace Powell at Fed Adds to Cacophony Around Rate Decision
As if the Federal Reserve’s decision about interest rates this week was not complicated enough, it is happening against the backdrop of an active search to replace the chair of the central bank, Jerome Powell. President Donald Trump is potentially weeks away from naming his pick to lead the institution...
Rod Paige, Education Secretary Who Defended ‘No Child Left Behind,’ Dies at 92
Rod Paige, who was President George W. Bush’s first secretary of education but who left amid a series of controversies that included attacks on foes of the No Child Left Behind law, died in Houston on Tuesday. He was 92. His family announced his death in a statement, which did...
Trump’s Speech on Economy Veers Into an Anti-Immigrant Tirade
WASHINGTON — Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Donald Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries to rally a crowd of his supporters at a Pennsylvania casino on Tuesday. In a speech that the White House billed as an address on the economy,...