California demonstrates renewable energy's reliability through recent advancements, according to a new study. The research, published in the prominent peer-reviewed journal Renewable Energy, reveals that for 98 out of 116 days from late winter to early summer last year, renewable energy sources met 100% of the state’s electricity demand for...
Trump Uses Mass Firing to Remove Independent Inspectors General at a Series of Agencies
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are suggesting violated federal oversight laws. The dismissals began Friday night and were effective immediately, according to two people familiar...
Hamas Frees 4 Female Israeli Soldiers in Exchange for 200 Palestinian Prisoners as Ceasefire Holds
TEL AVIV, Israel — Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza returned to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and handed them over to the Red Cross. Israel later released 200...
Senate Confirms Noem as Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration. Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the...
Hegseth Is Quickly Sworn In as Defense Secretary After Dramatic Senate Vote
Pete Hegseth was sworn in Saturday as the nation's 29th secretary of defense, quickly joining President Trump's Cabinet after a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate installed him as the Pentagon's leader. Hegseth took the oath from Vice President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Hegseth's wife,...
Ready to Invest in Love? Cash the Puppy Seeks Forever Home
Cash, a 5-month-old puppy with a sweet demeanor and a heart full of love, has come a long way since his rough start. Found with his brother in a box by the side of the road in Del Rey, the young pup’s fate took a fortunate turn when a good...
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left
Last year, Chris Rufo, the influential right-wing strategist who spearheaded the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives, told me about his ambitions for a second Trump presidency. He hoped, he said, to see Donald Trump’s administration aggressively investigate Ivy League institutions that, according to Rufo, practice “rampant”...
Secret Service Agents Seeking Student Over Trump Video Blocked From School
According to Chicago Public Schools officials, Secret Service agents were turned away Friday at Hamline Elementary while reportedly searching for an 11-year-old who had posted an anti-Trump video online. The incident at the Back of the Yards neighborhood school initially caused confusion, with some school officials first misidentifying the agents...
Drone Delivery is Here: Zipline CEO Shares the Future of Product Transport
Groundbreaking technology can happen anywhere. This is the message Zipline’s co-founder and CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton left the audience with at Mercedes Edwards Theatre on Tuesday night. The robotics trailblazer founded Zipline alongside Keenan Wyrobek in 2014. Two years later, they began operations in Rwanda after President Paul Kagame and the...
Visalia Man Arrested After Crash into Home, Fleeing the Scene
A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday after crashing into a home in the near Tulare Avenue and Fairway Street in Visalia, the Visalia Police Department reported. Just before 2:20 p.m., police responded to reports of a vehicle striking the residence. The driver and a passenger fled the scene before officers...