Fresno County sent out some wrong ballots, Clerk/Registrar of Voters James Kus said on Tuesday afternoon. "These voters were then mailed or otherwise provided a ballot for their incorrect registration precincts, instead of the appropriate ballot based upon their registration addresses. The Department has identified a total of 11 persons...
Fresno Dem Jim Costa Wins Reelection to U.S. House in California’s 21st Congressional District
The Associated Press has officially declared that Democratic Rep. Jim Costa of Fresno won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California. Costa was first elected to the U.S. House in 2005 after spending roughly 24 years in the state Legislature. He defended his seat against Republican Michael Maher of...
Trump Chooses TV Doctor Mehmet Oz to Lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running television talk show, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar...
TSMC Walks a Geopolitical Tightrope
TSMC is riding high. The Taiwanese chipmaker—sole supplier of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chip designer—has seen sales more than double since the start of 2020. While other semiconductor firms fret about cooling demand for gadgets and cars, TSMC believes demand for AI is just gearing...
Stock Market Today: Nvidia Helps Pull US Indexes Higher
NEW YORK — Nvidia helped pulled U.S. stock indexes higher on Tuesday after they stumbled in the morning on worries about escalations in the Russia-Ukraine war. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after erasing an early drop of 0.7%. The Nasdaq composite also shook off an early loss to turn 1%...
Multiple Election Offices Report Receiving Mailed Ballots Misdirected From Other States
HELENA, Mont. — Terry Thompson had an election to run for voters in Cascade County, Montana. Why then, she thought, was her office in Great Falls being sent mailed ballots completed by voters in places such as Wasilla, Alaska, Vancouver, Washington, and Tampa, Florida? It was only about a dozen...
Fresno Officials, Local Groups Prepare for Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations
Nonprofits, churches, and community-based organizations will gather alongside Fresno officials this week to discuss strategies to protect immigrants as the country speculates about what President-elect Donald Trump meant when he promised mass deportations. "We're going to focus a lot on obviously know your rights campaigns and educating our community here...
Fresno Police Arrest Student Over Social Media Threat to Local Middle School
A student from Central Unified's El Capitan Middle School was arrested Monday after admitting to making a social media threat targeting Fresno Unified's Ahwahnee Middle School, the Fresno Police Department said in a statement. The investigation began Sunday when officers responded to reports of a threat posted on Instagram. Detectives...
Volunteers Came Back to Nonprofits in 2023, After the Pandemic Tanked Participation
From foster grandparents who volunteer at an early child care center to citizen scientists who collect water quality data in remote locations, nonprofit volunteers have come back after the pandemic. A new survey released Tuesday from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3% or 75.8 million people in the...
How Three Trump Policy Decrees Could Affect California Farmers
Voters in California's farm belt, stretching more than 400 miles from Kern County on the south to Tehama County on the north, delivered solid majorities for Donald Trump in this month's presidential election. They were obviously outvoted in heavily populated coastal and urban counties, so rival Kamala Harris claimed the...