The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission postponed scrubbing DEI-related language from job descriptions, which interim CEO Brian Angus is recommending so as not to jeopardize tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for the anti-poverty community action agency. Delaying the vote to next month's meeting will give the agency time...
Trump’s Reclamation Bureau Doubles Water Allocation Over 2024
In a water year not too different than 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation doubled its February allocation from last year, attributing the action to an executive order from President Donald Trump. But given a dry January, officials say they are still monitoring California's water situation. Reclamation announced South-of-Delta operators...
Is Bird Flu the Only Reason Egg Prices Are Soaring?
The calls, texts and emails start coming in before 6 in the morning: restaurants, bakeries and others desperate to find eggs. Brian Moscogiuri is an egg broker. A vice president for the wholesale company Eggs Unlimited, he works the phone in his home office in Toms River, New Jersey, until...
Southwest Airlines Flight Abruptly Rises to Avoid Another Plane Crossing Chicago Runway
CHICAGO — Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago's Midway Airport were forced to make the plane climb suddenly to avoid another aircraft crossing the runway. Airport webcam video posted to X shows the Southwest plane appear to briefly touch down about 8:50 a.m. CST Tuesday...
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on...
A Federal Judge in Seattle Blocks Trump’s Effort to Halt the Refugee Admissions System
SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to halt the nation’s refugee admissions system Tuesday. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by major refugee aid groups, who argued that Trump's executive order suspending the federal refugee resettlement program ran afoul of the system Congress...
Over 230,000 Sign Petition Calling for Musk’s Canadian Citizenship to Be Revoked
More than 230,000 Canadians have signed a petition to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship and passport over what the petition calls his attempts to engage in practices that go against Canada’s national interest. The petition said Musk had “become a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase...
Fresno Wants Frazier Out of Granite Park. He’s Fighting Back.
Terance Frazier is not going down without a fight. The city of Fresno is going to court to force the nonprofit Frazier operates to exit the Granite Park sports complex. The city filed an unlawful detainer lawsuit in January, and a judge next week will decide if the eviction case...
Latest: 21 Employees Resign From DOGE, Refusing to ‘Dismantle Critical Public Services’
More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they refused to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under...
White House Says It ‘Will Decide’ Which News Outlets Cover Trump, Rotating Some Traditional Ones
The White House said Wednesday that its officials “will decide” which news outlets can regularly cover President Donald Trump up close — a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organizations go where the chief executive does and hold him accountable on...