WASHINGTON — A man with an AK-style rifle pushed the firearm's muzzle through the perimeter of Donald Trump's West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course Sunday as the Republican presidential candidate was playing a round, prompting U.S. Secret Service to open fire, according to three law enforcement officials. The former president...
Murder Rates Spiked Under Trump. Biden Had an Answer.
Opinion by Patrick Sharkey on Sept. 13, 2024. THE ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, COMMUNITY ROLES AND GUN CONTROL HELPED ERASE THE SPIKE IN KILLINGS. When President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, they did so on the heels of the largest single-year increase in...
Project 2025 to California: Report Abortion Data or Lose Billions in Medicaid
Project 2025, the 900-page conservative playbook for the next Republican president, issues an ultimatum for California: track and report abortion data to the federal government or risk losing billions in Medicaid funding for reproductive health. California is one of only three states that do not report abortion data to the...
Should California Community Colleges Offer Bachelor’s Degrees in Nursing? Universities Say No
Is there a nursing shortage in California? Now, yes, though in a few years, probably not. By 2027, the state is projected to have as many nurses as it needs because of a rise in nursing program enrollment, according to UC San Francisco projections compiled for the state agency that...
Bulldogs Pound a Lightweight, but a Heavyweight Looms in Two Weeks
If Fresno State is to become the football team it wants to be, it must run the ball with the effectiveness it did Saturday night, but against the Mountain West heavyweights — not a nonconference lightweight such as New Mexico State. The Aggies posed no challenge for the Bulldogs in...
18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World
Lael Wilcox hopped on her bicycle in Chicago in May. Three and a half months later, she was back, having ridden 18,000 miles around the world and set what is being hailed as a women’s record. Wilcox, 38, of Tucson, Arizona, rode east to New York, flew to Portugal and...
Meet Bentley: The Athletic, Snuggly, Bright Eyed Supermutt Ready for Adoption
Meet Bentley, the 25-pound, bright-eyed ball of energy who’s turning heads and melting hearts. At about 5 years old, Bentley has an origin story as unique as his personality. After a DNA test left his rescuers scratching their heads, they finally got an answer: Bentley is officially a supermutt —...
How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power
This summer, Amin Abed, a Palestinian activist who has spoken out publicly about Hamas, twice found bullets on his doorstep in the Gaza Strip. Then in July, he said he was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before striking him with hammers and...
A College Degree While Still in High School? More Valley Students Are Doing It
Katie Escobar and her sister, brother, parents, boyfriend and four dogs squeezed around a dark wooden dining room table on a recent Sunday night. Conversation flowed with weekly updates, favorite TV shows and an almost constant banter between the family members. The Escobars certainly don't agree on everything, but they...
CHP Traffic Stop Bust Yields $1.3 Million Cocaine Seizure
A California Highway Patrol officer seized about 37 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1.3 million during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 in Merced County on Sept. 7, according to the CHP's social media post on Friday. The seizure led to the arrest of two suspects,...