Honda Motor is recalling 98,892 vehicles in the United States over a defect involving unintentional deployment of air bags, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday. Here are a few more details: • The recall includes certain Honda Acura TLX, Accord Hybrid, and 2022 Accord vehicles, the...
ICE Agent Charged in Minnesota Shooting Is Arrested in Texas
MINNEAPOLIS — Law enforcement officials from Minnesota and Texas on Friday arrested an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant this year and lying about it. The agent, Christian Castro, 52, was arrested in Texas after investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tracked him...
Maintenance Train Fire at Penn Station Injures 5 and Disrupts Rail Service
NEW YORK — Rail services were disrupted before the Friday morning commute after a fire broke out overnight on a maintenance train in New York’s Penn Station, injuring five people. By midmorning, Amtrak and NJ Transit service to and from Penn Station in Manhattan remained interrupted. Long Island Rail Road...
Misty Her Went Into a Fresno Unified Classroom. Did She Unlock the Keys to Reading?
Fresno Unified Superintendent Misty Her believes she knows what it takes to get young students reading at grade level. That's because the superintendent has gotten out of the office and into the classroom on Mondays since the start of that school year. Working alongside first-grade teacher Ana Bustos at Mayfair...
UC Profs Says California Students Can’t Do Math. They Want SAT/ACT Back
Saying the "UC's mission is at risk," a letter signed by hundreds of math and science professors and nearly all mathematics chairs at the University of California system calls for SAT and ACT test requirements to be reinstated. They want the test requirements reinstated beginning with the 2027 admissions cycle....
US Postal Service Seeks to Require States to Submit Lists of Voters
The U.S. Postal Service would require states to provide a list of voters who received mailed ballots as part of new rules proposed on Friday, one day after a federal judge declined to immediately block President Donald Trump's related executive order. The USPS proposal, published in a Federal Register notice,...
Israeli Push to Take More of Gaza Raises Alarm as Hamas Warns Against Escalation
Hamas said on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that his country would expand its area of control in Gaza was a dangerous escalation, as European states and residents of the Palestinian territory also voiced alarm at the plan. Under a ceasefire deal in October Israel's military was...
Clovis High, Clovis Elementary Under Shelter-in-Place as Police Search for Threat
Update: The Clovis Unified School District said that the shelter-in-place order has been removed from both schools. The district, in collaboration with the Clovis Police Department, confirmed that the suspicious phone call was not credible and did not pose risk to students. Original Story Clovis High School and Clovis Elementary...
Microsoft Copilot Down for Thousands, Downdetector Shows
Microsoft Copilot experienced a possible outage Friday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 2,600 users had reported problems with the platform as of 8:58 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector...
Ex-US Attorney General Bondi Testifies to Congress Panel Probing Epstein Case
Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Friday before a closed meeting of a Republican-led congressional committee to testify on the Justice Department's release of documents related to its investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "We will be asking today about why documents still are not released....what...
