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...
Former Pentagon Spokesman Tied to Online DEI Purge Was Asked to Resign
WASHINGTON — Former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot was asked to resign this week, a senior defense official told The Associated Press on Thursday, in the latest shakeup for the Defense Department following firings and other changes under President Donald Trump. Ullyot was one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's initial hires...
Average US Rate on a 30-Year Mortgage Climbs to 6.83%, Highest Level Since Late February
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. climbed to its highest level in eight weeks, a setback for home shoppers in the midst of the spring homebuying season. The rate rose to 6.83% from 6.62% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the...
More Than 1,000 International Students Have Had Visas or Legal Status Revoked
WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 international students have had their visas or legal status revoked in recent weeks, and several have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the U.S. The actions by the...