Fresno County Superior Court could get a completely new building downtown if a plan from the Judicial Council of California gets a green light. And if the plan comes to fruition, that would trigger a move for the Fresno County Sheriff's Office headquarters to a new downtown location. A workshop...
Stocks, Dollar Inch Higher a Day Ahead of Fed Announcement
Major stock indexes and the dollar edged higher on Tuesday as investors turned their attention to the Federal Reserve meeting and as investors digested news that Washington is allowing Nvidia's second-best chips to be exported to China. Treasury yields were little changed after erasing earlier declines on U.S. labor market...
Fresno Firefighters Contain Apartment Blaze, Two Residents Displaced
Fresno firefighters contained an apartment fire Monday afternoon that displaced two residents but left the rest of the building unharmed, officials said. Crews were called just after 3 p.m. to the 4700 block of East Church Avenue and arrived to find smoke and flames coming from a single unit as...
Israeli Ban on International Media in Gaza Remains, Legal Challenge Delayed
JERUSALEM — Nearly two months into the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israel continues to bar journalists from freely entering the Gaza Strip to report, despite a long-standing petition brought by journalists seeking access to the territory. On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding...
OpenAI Taps Slack CEO Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAI on Tuesday appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer, as the ChatGPT maker looks to expand its enterprise business. Dresser will oversee OpenAI's global revenue strategy, including enterprise sales and customer success. At Slack, she led the messaging platform through its integration with Salesforce following the...
Reddit Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Reddit experienced a possible outage Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 6,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 10:30 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said...
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, signed into law on Tuesday a measure that restricts immigration enforcement outside state courthouses and that makes it easier to sue immigration agents if residents believe their rights have been violated. The Democratic-backed legislation was approved by lawmakers in October in the midst...
Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’
In recent weeks, the North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total ban on abortions. Texas enacted a law that lets private citizens sue out-of-state doctors who mail abortion medications into the state. And California approved legislation to protect those very same doctors, allowing abortion pills to be sent into Texas...
US Judge Allows Release of Epstein-Related Grand Jury Documents
A U.S. judge on Tuesday cleared the Justice Department to release grand jury documents in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison for sex trafficking underage girls with the deceased financier. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in New York granted the Justice Department's request...
US Solar Installations Jump 49% in Third Quarter, Report Says
The U.S. solar industry installed 11.7 gigawatts of new solar capacity in the third quarter, a jump of 49% sequentially, a study by the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie showed on Tuesday. The report said solar accounted for 58% of all new electricity-generating capacity added to the U.S....