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...
Fresno Drunk Driver Gets Probation for Crash That Killed Two, Including Pregnant Woman
A Fresno man who caused a fatal DUI crash that killed two young victims, including a pregnant woman, was sentenced to probation Friday by Fresno County Superior Court Judge Charles J. Lee, the Fresno County District Attorney's Office announced in a news release. Eugene Roebuck III, 24, avoided a maximum...
OpenAI’s Operator Can Now Control Your Computer by Watching Your Screen
OpenAI just launched Operator, a clever AI tool that can handle computer tasks by itself by watching and interacting with what's on your screen. AI expert Simon Willison pointed out that it looks a lot like Anthropic's similar tool from last fall, showing how competitive this space is getting. If...
Magsig Says ‘Range of Light’ Prospects Are as Dark as Night
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig wrote on Facebook Friday that with President Donald Trump's election, a plan to designate 1.4 million acres of the Sierra National Forest as a national monument "has been prevented." Similarly, two U.S. Congressmembers introduced a bill to make it so only lawmakers can set large...