Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer with extensive experience in the Middle East, believes an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon is imminent, News Nation reported. “The Israelis are going to go in. I can see it coming,” Baer said. He cited recent explosions involving pagers and VHF radios used...
Fresno State Football Wants ‘Payback’ When Facing New Mexico
Fresno State football head coach Tim Skipper praised his team’s performance after their 48-0 victory over New Mexico State on Saturday at Valley Children's Stadium during a news conference on Monday. With that game now behind them, the team’s focus shifts to their upcoming Mountain West Conference opener against the...
6 Myths About California Crime as Voters Now Favor This Measure on Drugs, Retail Theft
Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment for years. In 1994, they voted for harsher criminal penalties and a three-strikes law. Twenty years later, in 2014, nearly 60% of voters approved Proposition 47, which sought to reduce the state's prison and jail populations by changing some felony...
Fresno Parent Asks Why Her Daughter Came Home from School with Religious Group’s Flyer
Tammy Johnson was surprised and perturbed when her 9-year-old daughter came home from Starr Elementary with a flyer from Christian group that Johnson found in her daughter's school folder. The flyer promoted meetings of the Good News Club, "an exciting, fun-filled weekly club for kids in which the Bible is...
After Trump Assassination Attempts, Congress Debates Secret Service Funding
WASHINGTON — After the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in two months, a fevered debate has broken out in Congress over whether the Secret Service needs more money. Because the dispute is unfolding on Capitol Hill and comes little more than six weeks before a presidential election,...
Defending Champion Italy to Take on Argentina in Davis Cup Finals in November
MADRID — Defending champion Italy will take on Argentina in the first round of the Davis Cup Finals in November. Thursday's draw for the last eight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga also set up the United States against Australia, Germany against Canada and the Netherlands against Spain. Seeded...
Tulare Siblings Arrested on Pimping and Pandering Charges
A tip to the National Human Trafficking Hotline has led to the arrest of two siblings in connection with a prostitution operation in Tulare County, the Tulare District Attorney's office said in a news release. Law enforcement officials from the Tulare County Human Trafficking Task Force arrested Enrique Castro Reyes,...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Will Stay in Jail After Bail Is Denied for a Second Time
NEW YORK — Sean "Diddy" Combs is staying locked up after a judge Wednesday rejected the hip-hop mogul's proposal that he await his sex trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a grim Brooklyn federal jail. U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter ruled that Combs' plan...
To Win Votes, Trump Floats an Array of Expensive Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON — When it comes to tax policy, former President Donald Trump has appeared in recent weeks to channel Oprah Winfrey, the television legend whose audience giveaways became a cultural sensation. But instead of free cars, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, is offering his audiences bespoke tax cuts. For restaurant...
Refugees in New Hampshire Turn to Farming for an Income and a Taste of Home
DUNBARTON, N.H. — It's harvest time in central New Hampshire, and one farm there appears to have been transplanted from a distant continent. Farmers balance large crates laden with vegetables on their heads while chatting in Somali and other languages. As the sun burns away the early morning mist, the...