Google services, including Google Drive, Sheets, Docs and Slides, experienced a possible outage Wednesday, according to Downdetector.com. As of 10:28 a.m. PT, more than 10,000 users reported issues with Google Drive, while Google Sheets logged over 2,000 reports and the search engine saw more than 1,000, according to Downdetector, which...
Fewer Trips, Tighter Wallets: Holiday Travel Cools, Report Shows
The holiday rush may lose some of its momentum this year — even among high-income travelers — as a report from Deloitte on Wednesday shows Americans are planning to take fewer trips and spend less on them amid growing financial concerns. The average number of planned holiday trips has dropped...
CHP K-9 Makes $272,000 Drug Bust on First Day in Merced County
A California Highway Patrol K-9 made a major drug bust on his first day on the job, authorities said. On Tuesday, a Central Division K-9 officer and his canine partner, Jag, conducted a traffic stop on I5 in Merced County that led to the discovery of about 20 pounds of...
Can Soccer Stadiums Revitalize American Cities Like Fresno?
(Editor's Note: There have been several proposals to build a soccer stadium in downtown Fresno, including one in 2021 that would have built a $40 million facility in the Fresno Convention Center parking lot. In making these proposals, stadium proponents tout the benefits to downtown revitalization. However, a review of...
Wall Street Mixed as Investors Offload Tech Stocks. Federal Reopening Anticipated
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow at a record high and the Nasdaq lagging peers, as investors rotated out of technology stocks while monitoring progress on a likely end to the historic U.S. government shutdown. Most big tech stocks fell with Alphabet, Tesla and Meta...
Kern County Authorities Arrest Four in Diesel Theft and Credit Card Skimming Scheme
Four people were arrested last week after authorities said they stole diesel fuel and used skimming devices to make fraudulent credit card purchases at a truck stop in Kern County. Deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office North Area Substation in Buttonwillow responded Nov. 6 to reports of fraudulent credit...
Ken Parker, Who Sought to Reinvent the Guitar, Dies at 73
Ken Parker, an iconoclastic guitar maker who upended entrenched luthier traditions by producing hyper-engineered, flyweight guitars seemingly designed for an art gallery, if not the 23rd century, died Oct. 5 at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was 73. His death was confirmed in a family statement, which did not...
Steve Bannon Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Genius. It’s Not a Feint.
KEY ELEMENTS OF THE MAYOR-ELECT’S CAMPAIGN HAVE ENORMOUS POTENTIAL FOR A PARTY THAT WAS BADLY BEATEN IN 2024. It’s only been a week, but the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York last Tuesday raises key questions for those seeking to put the Democratic Party on a winning...
What if Democrats’ Big Shutdown Loss Turns Out to Be a Win?
WASHINGTON — At first blush, the deal that paved the way to end the government shutdown this week looked exactly like the kind of feeble outcome many Democrats have come to expect from their leaders in Washington. After waging a 40-day fight to protect Americans’ access to health care —...
There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.
The world’s leading energy agency is backing away, sort of, from its view that global demand for fossil fuels could very well peak by the end of the decade. Two years ago, the International Energy Agency caused a stir when it published a widely read analysis suggesting that the world’s...