Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation. Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a segment aired...
Fresno State Students Join Unionizing Effort Across CSU Campuses
Student workers across California State University campuses filed Monday with the state to form a union, saying it would help them advocate for better pay and working conditions. “With a union, we’ll be able to hold the university accountable for how it treats students,” said Grayce Honsa, a student and...
Violent Rivalry in California Sikh Community Leads to 17 Arrests. Other Suspects Sought
Authorities in California on Monday said they had arrested more than a dozen men from two warring criminal syndicates whose violent rivalry they say was responsible for a mass shooting at a Sikh temple and a brutal sword attack at a parade in 2018. Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer Dupré...
GOP Says Dem Judge Appointments ‘Will Have to Wait’ as Feinstein Remains Absent from Senate
Democrats’ efforts to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee met quick opposition Monday from Republicans, complicating their plan as some of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees remain on hold during her extended medical absence. Feinstein, 89, last week asked to be temporarily replaced on the Senate Judiciary...
For Palestinians, Holiest Ramadan Night Starts at Checkpoint
For many Palestinians, the journey to one of Islam's most sacred sites on the holiest night of Ramadan begins in a dust-choked, garbage-strewn maelstrom. Tens of thousands of Palestinian worshippers from across the occupied West Bank on Monday crammed through a military checkpoint leading to Jerusalem to pray at the...
Flame On! Restaurants Win Natural Gas Ban Battle in California City
A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a California city's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance. The measure, which took effect in 2020 in the Bay Area city of Berkeley to...
Owner of Fresno Bridal Shop Files for Bankruptcy. What Customers Need to Know
David’s Bridal has filed for bankruptcy protection, the second time for the chain in the past five years. The announcement Monday arrives days after the company, one of the largest sellers of wedding gowns and formal wear, said it could eliminate more than 9,200 jobs across the United States. Based...
Mexico President to Shut National News Agency, Says His Briefings Inform Enough
Mexico’s president said Friday he will shut down Notimex, a national news agency that has been locked in a years-long strike against the woman he appointed to run it. Founded in 1968, Notimex was generally a service that mainly sent news reports from Mexico’s 32 states, many of which weren’t covered much...
Ukraine Awaits US Patriot Missile System After Latest Russian Strike
The death toll from Russian missile strikes on eastern Ukraine's city of Sloviansk rose to 11 Saturday as rescue crews tried to reach people trapped in the rubble of an apartment building, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine's air force said the country would soon have weapons with which to try to...
‘Build That Wall’: Finland Breaks Ground on Russia Border Fence
The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border with Russia - primarily meant to curb illegal migration - has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as the 31st member of the military alliance. The Finnish Border Guard...