Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Bill McEwen: Five Steps to Heal America Under Biden

Our nation's capital looks like a far-away authoritarian land with 25,000 National Guard soldiers and thousands of police officers deployed to keep Joe Biden safe for his presidential inauguration on Wednesday. America hasn't been this divided since the Civil War, and the immediate future is filled with huge challenges that...

Did You Get Strange Seeds in the Mail? ‘Don’t Plant Them,’ Says Ag Commission

Unsolicited seeds from China are being received by homeowners throughout the United States. At least 50 Fresno county homeowners have reported the odd packages to the local ag commissioner. More calls are coming in every day. Here's the messaging that officials want people to hear: Do not open the packages....

UK, US, Canada Accuse Russia of Hacking Virus Vaccine Trials

LONDON — Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russia on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. The three nations alleged that hacking group APT29, also known as Cozy Bear and said to be part of the Russian intelligence service, is attacking academic and...

Can California Save America From Itself?

“Go to my website or use the hashtag #LetsGetTheCalOuttaHere!” shouts Gwyneth Paltrow in the Netflix series The Politician. Running for governor on a platform of leading California’s secession from the United States, Paltrow’s character wins 98 percent of the vote. This may be fiction, but California independence is gaining cultural...

Fresno County Data in Facebook's New COVID-19 Symptoms Interactive Map

No, Facebook doesn't track your health, the social media behemoth says. No, Facebook doesn't store your data, it says. But, Facebook now aggregates data from an opt-in survey they're running with researchers at Carnegie Mellon. Today, Facebook released the first maps of the COVID-19 symptoms people have reported county-by-county across the United...

Rediscovering America: A Quiz on the US Census

The decennial U.S. Census — or Population and Housing Census as it is also known — endeavors to count every individual living in the United States and the five U.S. territories, and will take place again this year. The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio,...

Report: At Least 138 Sent From US to El Salvador Were Killed

WASHINGTON — At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch says in a report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge here. A majority of the deaths documented by...

EU Rebukes Iran Over Nuclear Violations, Sanctions Possible

BRUSSELS — Britain, France and Germany ratcheted up pressure on Iran Tuesday to cease its violations of a landmark nuclear deal, stressing that they want to resolve differences through talks while starting the clock on a process that could result in a so-called “snapback” of United Nations sanctions. The three...

Help continue the work that gets you the news that matters most.

Search