Reddit experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 3,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 12:11 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said...
US Says TSA Absences Rose Slightly to 10.2% Wednesday
Overall absences among Transportation Security Administration airport security officers rose to 10.2% on Wednesday, up slightly as a partial government shutdown continues, the government said on Thursday. The absenteeism rate was much higher at some major airports on Wednesday including 25% at New York's JFK and San Juan, Puerto Rico,...
Nineteen-Year-Old Mexican Man Dies in ICE Custody, Agency Says
A 19-year-old man died at a federal detention center on Monday, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the youngest known person to die in federal immigration custody during the second Trump administration. ICE identified the man as Royer Perez Jimenez, of Mexico, who was being held at the Glades...
DOJ, White House Clearing Way to Keep Powell Probe Going, Bloomberg News Reports
The leaders at the U.S. Justice Department are rallying behind federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the White House is not opposing, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing sources. President Donald Trump had been open to the idea of dropping the probe into Powell...
Polo & Pan Join San Luis Obispo’s Shabang Music Festival Lineup
French electronic duo Polo & Pan are set to perform at the 2026 Shabang Music Festival, organizers announced Tuesday, adding an international flair to the Central Coast event. The two-day festival, scheduled for May 2–3 at the Dairy Creek Golf Course, will also feature headliners Chris Lake, The Backseat Lovers,...
Trump Says He Told Netanyahu Not to Repeat Iranian Gas Field Attack
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to repeat the kind of attack Israel carried out on a major Iranian gas field, while saying the two countries coordinate their actions. In a social media post on Wednesday night, Trump said Washington "knew nothing...
Mussel Slough Shootout Outside Fresno Reminds Us to Fight Federal Tyranny
Remember Mussel Slough! Most of you can’t remember the massacre that birthed modern California. Because you never learned about it in the first place. Maybe Mussel Slough has been forgotten because the powers-that-be want it that way. They don’t want us remembering Mussel Slough, because it would teach us that...
UC Berkeley Settles Antisemitism Lawsuit, Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Say
The University of California, Berkeley agreed to tighten protections against antisemitism on campus to settle a lawsuit accusing the school of tolerating an "unrelenting" stream of harassment toward Jewish students and faculty, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Thursday. UC Berkeley had been sued by the nonprofit Louis D. Brandeis Center...
Trump Draws Parallel Between Pearl Harbor and US Strikes on Iran in Meeting With Japanese PM
President Donald Trump on Thursday drew a parallel between U.S. strikes on Iran and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor decades ago, as he defended the war against Tehran at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington. "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why...
US and Israeli War Aims in Iran Are Not the Same, US Spy Chief Says
American and Israeli objectives for the war on Iran are not the same, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Thursday, with Israel focused on disabling Iran's leadership and U.S. President Donald Trump focused on destroying Iran's ballistic missile program and navy. "The objectives that have been laid...