Madison Macay recently joined KMPH FOX26 as the new "10 O'Clock News" anchor. She arrived from KRNV-TV in Reno, where she spent four-plus years. Both stations are owned by Sinclair. A San Francisco native, she worked behind the camera at Bay Area station KTVU for a year before landing her...
CA’s Education Leadership Mishmash Makes it Hard to Know Who’s Accountable
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s public school system, which purports to educate nearly 6 million students ranging from 4-year-olds in transitional kindergarten to near-adults preparing to graduate from high school, is in a world of hurt. Its students perform poorly in national...
American Architect Frank Gehry Dies at Age 96
Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical creations of leaning towers and sweeping sheets of curved metal such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, made him a superstar in the world of architecture, died on Friday. He was 96. Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry's chief of staff, confirmed his death in an...
AB InBev To Acquire 85% Stake in Beverage Maker BeatBox for $490 Million
Anheuser-Busch InBev on Friday said it plans to acquire a majority stake in the U.S.-based ready-to-drink beverage brand BeatBox for about $490 million. The deal would give Anheuser-Busch ownership of 85% of the company, with a path to 100% after five years based on a predetermined pricing formula. The transaction is...
‘We May Be Deporting the Wrong People’: New Poll Shows Doubts About Immigration Crackdown
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. If you found out your neighbor had a past criminal conviction, your knee-jerk reaction might be that you’d want them relocated. But what if that person committed a burglary in their late teens, served years in state prison,...
$7 Billion Fresno Transportation Tax Committee Stalls On Key Issues
For a group with only advisory capacity, the Measure C Steering Committee went on a deep dive into the language to renew Fresno County’s transportation sales tax. After two and a half hours, there was still work left to do, inching toward final recommendations for the 2026 ballot measure, which...
Supreme Court To Decide Legality of Trump Move To Limit Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th century constitutional provision has long been understood. The justices...
Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry
On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me “garbage.” This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread conspiracy theories about the Somali community and about me personally. For years, the president has spewed hate speech in...
Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
WASHINGTON — The two survivors of the U.S. military’s first boat strike on Sept. 2 climbed atop the overturned hull and waved to something overhead, according to multiple people who have seen video of the attack. The signaling by the survivors has been interpreted in different ways. Some of the...
Trump Strategy Document Revives Monroe Doctrine, Slams Europe
The United States will reassert itself in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on Friday in a sweeping strategy document that seeks to reframe the country's role in the world. The National Security Strategy, released overnight,...