NEW YORK — Told he had tied a World Series record by homering in five straight games, Freddie Freeman grinned. "Let's hopefully make it six," he said. Freeman put Los Angeles ahead 15 pitches into the game with a two-run homer off Clarke Schmidt, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat...
Trump Repeatedly Refers to CNN’s Anderson Cooper as ‘Allison’
Former President Donald Trump has spent the past several days calling CNN host Anderson Cooper by a woman’s name, as he devotes much of the final stretch of a close presidential campaign to increasingly unfiltered displays of grievance and bigotry. On at least three occasions since Friday, twice at rallies...
6 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 3-Hour Podcast With Joe Rogan
Former President Donald Trump taped a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Friday. He courted the show’s young male audience by floating the idea of eliminating the income tax, talking about mixed martial arts fighters, praising the military skills of Gen. Robert E. Lee and speculating that...
Six Fresno Gang Members Shot and No One Is Saying a Word: Police Chief
Six people were injured but are expected to survive in what Fresno's top cop called a gang-related shooting Saturday night. “Well, on Saturday night, the same time that we were investigating the officer-involved shooting and murder over in southeast Fresno, we received a call for service in Amador and A...
How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?
Opinion by Maureen Dowd on Oct. 26, 2024. WASHINGTON — Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brother Ari. But a quote from Ari, the Hollywood macher, to Puck’s Matthew Belloni about the gender chasm in 2024 caught my eye. “This election is gonna come down to...
LGBTQ Supporters Drown Out Westboro Baptists’ Anti-Gay Message in Fresno
The southeast corner of Cedar and Tulare avenues next to Roosevelt High School had been filled with hundreds of rainbow-clad LGBTQ supporters Monday afternoon when a miniscule group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas showed up bearing anti-gay and anti-abortion signs. Up until that moment the busy...
MAGA Unchained in Madison Square Garden
Opinion by Michelle Goldberg on Oct. 28, 2024. Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Lollapalooza at Madison Square Garden on Sunday began with an iconic scene from the 1970 biopic “Patton” on the jumbotron. Strutting in front of a giant American flag, George C. Scott, playing the legendary World War...
Harris Leads Trump by 4 Points in New National Poll
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 4-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, reported by The Hill. Conducted Oct. 18-22, the survey shows Harris leading Trump 51% to 47%. Among registered voters, her lead narrows to 49% to 47%. This follows...
Prominent Clovis Attorney Denied Bail for Alleged Child Molestations
A prominent Clovis attorney has been in jail since July 25, booked on accusations of molesting four young female relatives. Personal injury lawyer Robert Quinlan Bergstrom has practiced in the Central Valley since 1970. Fresno police arrested him the same day he was booked. Court records show Bergstrom, 82 of...
Trump Team Fears Damage From Racist Rally Remarks
Donald Trump and his allies are full of bravado over his chances of victory in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. But there are signs, publicly and privately, that the former president and his team are worried that their opponents’ descriptions of him as a racist and a fascist...