INDIANAPOLIS — LeBron James started the fourth quarter Wednesday in danger of failing to extend his NBA record for consecutive double-digit scoring games. He finished it with yet another crowning achievement. The 40-year-old James scored the last of his 13 points on a buzzer-beating tip-in to give the Los Angeles...
Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: John Schirra Major
Update on March 27, 2025 The Fresno County Sheriff's Office has reported that John Major is incarcerated at Calipatria State Prison. Original Story March 27, 2025 Most Wanted Person of the Day Suspect Name: John Schirra Major Suspects Date of Birth: December 15, 1992 Physical Description: Black Male, 5’ 8,...
Will This Bill Be the End of California’s Housing vs. Environment Wars?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For years California has been stuck in a recurring fight between legislators who want the state to turbocharge new home construction and legislators determined to defend a landmark environmental protection law. The final showdown in that long-standing battle...
Stock Market Today: Wall Street Drifts as Auto Tariffs Hurt GM, Help Tesla and Others
NEW YORK — Wall Street is getting pulled in different directions Thursday as President Donald Trump’s latest tariff escalation creates winners and losers among auto stocks, while better-than-expected data on the economy helps support the market. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in midday trading after erasing a loss of...
Kermit the Frog Will Deliver Commencement Speech at the University of Maryland
Every spring, well-known and accomplished figures deliver commencement addresses at college campuses around the country, offering graduates advice, wisdom and inspiration as they embark on their next chapter. At the University of Maryland, graduates are likely to receive words of encouragement on May 21, 2025, as the university announced Wednesday...
LeShon Johnson, Ex-NFL Running Back, Ran Major Dogfighting Kennel, US Says
Federal authorities said this week that they had broken up a major dogfighting kennel in Oklahoma led by former National Football League running back LeShon Johnson, seizing 190 pit-bull-type dogs in what they described as the most ever taken from a single person in a federal case. In a news...
HHS Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. The government’s rationale is that the COVID pandemic has ended, which “provides cause to terminate COVID-related grant funds,” according to an internal National Institutes of...
Turkish Student at Tufts University Is Latest Palestinian Supporter Taken in Crackdown
BOSTON — A Turkish student ambushed by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who have expressed their political views. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at...
10,000 Federal Health Workers Will Be Laid Off Under Trump Plan
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The layoffs, reported earlier by The Wall...
Department of Education Unlocks Student Loan Repayment Plans
The U.S. Department of Education has reopened several income-driven student loan repayment plans after a month-long freeze that left millions in limbo. The February shutdown came after President Joe Biden’s Saving on Valuable Education program, known as SAVE, was legally challenged by a group of Republican-led states and barred by...