Fresno Unified trustees have passed over a former national superintendent of the year in their search for the district's next chief executive. In 2020, the American Association of School Administrators named Gustavo Balderas as the national superintendent of the year for his work with Eugene School District. That year, he...
Hamas Ready to Release All Remaining Hostages for End to Gaza War, Hamas’ Gaza Chief Says
CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas' Gaza chief said the group was ready to immediately negotiate a deal to swap all hostages for an agreed number of Palestinians jailed by Israel as part of a broader deal to end the war in the enclave. In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, who leads...
Ford Recalls More Than 148,000 Vehicles, NHTSA Says
(Reuters) - Ford Motor is recalling more than 148,000 vehicles in the United States as part of two recalls, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday. The automaker will recall 123,611 vehicles due to a fluid leak that could reduce braking performance and increase stopping distance. This affects...
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it would hear arguments in a few weeks over President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The brief order by the justices was unsigned and gave no reasoning, as is typical in such emergency cases. But the move is a...
Fresno Man Arrested After Shots Fired Into Occupied Apartment
A man was arrested on April 10, in connection with a shooting that left a Fresno apartment riddled with bullets, authorities said. Officers responded around 8:56 p.m. on April 9 to reports of gunfire near Cedar and Santa Ana avenues, where they found the front of an apartment had been...
Next Phase of DOGE Is $5 Million Immigrant Visas
When President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency, its mandate was to modernize “federal technology and software.” It has done a lot more than that. But Wednesday, New York Times journalists Ryan Mac and Hamed Aleaziz reported that Elon Musk’s outfit is doing something entirely new: building a...
Republicans Weigh Tax Increase on Wealthy in Trump Agenda Bill
Republican lawmakers are considering allowing tax rates to increase for high-income earners as part of President Donald Trump's agenda bill, according to an NBC News report. This potential move, driven partly by a need to limit deficit spending and fund other priorities like immigration enforcement and military spending, marks a...
More Than 40% of Puerto Rico Customers Without Power After Island-Wide Blackout
(Reuters) - Nearly half of the homes and businesses in Puerto Rico that receive electricity from the commonwealth's main utility were still without power on Thursday, a day after a widespread blackout struck the island, Luma Energy said in a statement. Hospitals, airports and prisons were among the structures still...
Popular AIs Head-to-Head: OpenAI Beats DeepSeek on Sentence-Level Reasoning
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make things up, including scientific and legal citations. It turns out that measuring how accurate an AI model's citations are is a good way of assessing the model's reasoning abilities. An AI model "reasons" by breaking...
Al Sharpton Calls Meeting With Target’s CEO Amid DEI Backlash ‘Very Constructive and Candid’
NEW YORK — Target's chief executive officer met Thursday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Sharpton called the meeting with Target CEO Brian Cornell "very constructive and candid," according to an...