Democrat Jim Costa has his first challenger for his congressional seat. Kevin Cookingham, a retired educator with Clovis Unified, announced on Facebook he’s running for the 16th District office. “This is something I need to do. In fact, I didn’t want to do it … but we need more conservatives...
Poll Finds Hunger for Change to US System of Government
After more than two years of the Donald Trump presidency, Andrea Petrusky is ready for some fundamental changes in the way the United States government works. "Right now we're being shown all of the loopholes, the president being able to do all the things that no president should," said Petrusky,...
Barr's Full Statement on Mueller Report
Despite President Donald Trump's efforts to derail Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election, Muller could not conclusively determine that Trump had committed criminal obstruction of justice. The Justice Department posted a redacted version of the report online Thursday morning, 90 minutes after Attorney General...
What You Won't See in the Mueller Report
WASHINGTON — The special counsel's Trump-Russia report will be out on Thursday for all to see. But not all of it. The Democrats' demands for a full, unredacted version of Robert Mueller's report are likely to prompt a political and legal battle that could last for months, if not much...
Barr Says ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ on Trump Campaign
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr declared Wednesday he believes "spying did occur" on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, suggesting the origins of the Russia investigation may have been mishandled and aligning himself with the president at a time when Barr's independence is under scrutiny. Barr, appearing before a Senate panel,...
Forbes Talks Deregulation, Supports Trump at Fresno State
Steve Forbes believes Donald Trump is on the right economic track. But, sometimes, Forbes adds, the president gets in his own way. The chairman of his eponymously named financial media empire talked to reporters before his lecture Monday evening at the Save Mart Center. The lecture was to be followed...
Mueller Concludes Russia Probe, Delivers Report to AG Barr
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, entangled Trump's family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president's closest associates. The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks...
Walters: Trumpies Rightfully Reduced Oroville Dam Aid
California’s Democratic political leaders fancy themselves leaders of the anti-Donald Trump “resistance” and are engaged in legal and political conflict with the White House on dozens of specific issues. Thus, when the Trump administration declared last week that it would not reimburse California for $306 million of the $1.1 billion...
Hillary Clinton Rules out 2020 Rematch With Trump
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president in 2020, but vows she's "not going anywhere." The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ruled out another campaign during an interview posted Monday by New York TV station News12. Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald...
'Racist,' 'Conman': Cohen Assails Trump Before Congress
WASHINGTON — In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president's former lawyer on Wednesday cast him as a racist and conman who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex and lied about his business interests in Russia throughout the campaign that sent him to...