Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday misrepresented in a social media post what the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity means for his civil and criminal cases. “TOTAL EXONERATION!” he wrote in the post on his Truth Social platform. “It is clear that the Supreme Court’s Brilliantly Written and Historic Decision ENDS all […]
Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley is skeptical that President Joe Biden’s startling debate performance was just a bad night, and he urged the president to consider how his place on the ticket impacts the fate of Democrats in the Congress. “We have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn’t just a horrible night,” Quigley told […]
In the Spotlight is a Fresno Bee series that digs into the high-profile local issues that readers care most about. Story idea? Email tips@fresnobee.com. Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama resigned on Tuesday, following a months-long investigation into an alleged affair he’d been having with the wife of a subordinate officer. The scandal, which broke only […]
Biden struggled in the first 2024 presidential debate. His weak performance, marked by slurred speech and gaffes, overshadowed his arguments. Trump appeared more confident and alert, despite making several inaccurate statements. The first presidential debate of 2024 did not go well for President Joe Biden. As he and former President Donald Trump sparred for an […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that it doesn’t seem like this giant void was feasting on much surrounding matter during that time — but, in order to reach its immense size, […]
A man who has battled the NHS for decades to get his wife mental health support has been told by A&E staff she was not a priority despite being so unwell she was catatonic. Steve, a 63-year-old from Hertfordshire, has been supporting his wife, who has schizophrenia, for 30 years and has recalled the “horrific” […]
A judge in Missouri says lawmakers who passed a restrictive abortion ban were not trying to impose their religious beliefs on everyone in the state, rejecting a case filed by more than a dozen Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist leaders who support abortion rights. The groups sought a permanent injunction last year barring Missouri from […]
FILE – Attorney General Merrick Garland answers a question from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, while testifying during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Department of Justice, June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House is expected to vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing […]
BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had a lot to talk about Friday when they met on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, but one notable matter wasn’t on the table: That’s abortion, an issue that emerged as an unexpected friction point among the democracies […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It would have been the largest-ever private gift to a historically Black college or university. $237 million — far beyond the recipient’s endowment. The money was promised by a 30-year-old who had recounted his rise from a childhood in foster care to becoming, as he put it, Texas’ “youngest African American […]
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group. Alexander Morris, who is Black, filed a lawsuit Monday against Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, alleging racial discrimination and other […]
Kentucky State Police is searching for a missing 8-month-old child who was not found during a welfare check. Miya Tucker, of Reynolds Station in Ohio County, was last suspected to be in the care of her parents, Cage Rudd and Tesla Tucker, KSP said. Rudd and Tucker were arrested and charged with abandonment of a […]