On Friday, Palm Springs reached a high temperature of 77°. The average high temperature this time of year is 81°. For Saturday, temperatures generally will be warmer as a ridge of high pressure builds into the state. The Coachella Valley will be closer to average, though will hover above it slightly. By Sunday, temperatures will
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You know how they say that anything worth doing is worth doing twice? Well, a man in South Carolina must have taken it to heart — and now he has $200,000 to show for it. The man went to a package store in the town of Summerville and bought two tickets with the same number:
Continue Reading Iron age warriors were laid to rest in an ancient burial ground complete with feather-stuffed bedding from an array of birds, new research has shown. The Valsgärde burial ground, near Uppsala in central Sweden is renowned for its 600 and 700 CE boat graves, and home to some 90 burial sites from the Merovingian period,
Continue Reading Meimei Xu grew up in Illinois, Florida and Georgia. But that didn’t stop people from asking her, “Where are you from?” The 19-year-old says growing up Asian American hasn’t been easy. When she was in grade school there were classmates who made hurtful comments. They told her Chinese food was strange and one of them
Continue ReadingIt was Thursday afternoon before a Senate recess was about to begin, and senators were in a hurry — especially Marsha Blackburn. As senators bolted from the chamber after the week’s final vote to catch their afternoon flights, the Tennessee Republican hopped in a waiting car along with an aide and made her way down
Continue ReadingAs Congress debates new legislation on firearm restrictions in the wake of two high-profile mass shootings, the National Rifle Association is playing a diminished role. But thanks to years of shedding its claim to bipartisanship and aligning almost entirely with the Republican Party, the country’s premier pro-gun lobby’s agenda has firmly planted its agenda within
Continue Reading You’ve been binge-watching television and movies the whole pandemic. Might as well get paid for it. In yet another job that encourages you to essentially do nothing, the website Nerd Bear wants to pay someone $1,000 to watch all 24 James Bond movies in 30 days. The website says it hopes the gig will keep
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Two people are dead and at least eight injured after shootings near the oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police said Saturday. Police found at least eight victims at “the original crime scene” when they arrived shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate said at a press briefing. While police were investigating,
Continue Reading The Library of Congress has added Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” and Kermit the Frog’s “The Rainbow Connection” to its National Recording Registry. The songs are among 25 “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said
Continue Reading An African American mother says she won’t sit down to talk with two men who came armed with about 13 other White people to her North Carolina home last year looking for a missing teenage girl — and she doesn’t care that a court acquitted them. Still, lawyers for the two men say they not
Continue Reading At last, the moment you dreamed of all year is here — your vaccination day. The thought of being pricked with a needle has never been more thrilling. Perhaps your city has converted a sports stadium, a local college or some big, empty parking lot into a mass vaccination site. Easy! All you have to
Continue ReadingThe “enemies” will have fictional names, but when hundreds of US military personnel around the globe log on to their computers later this summer for a highly classified war game, it will be clear what a major focus of the scenarios will be — how the US should respond to aggressive action and unexpected moves
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(CNN Español) –– El gobierno de Argentina informó este viernes que, de común acuerdo con sus 24 jurisdicciones, diferirá por tres meses la aplicación de la segunda dosis de vacunas contra el covid-19. El anuncio del Ministerio de Salud ocurre mientras la inoculación no avanza al ritmo esperado. En el comunicado, las autoridades explicaron que
Continue Reading (CNN) — Investigadores dicen que encontraron evidencia de que el coronavirus infecta la boca, incluso dentro de las mejillas, en las encías y en las glándulas salivales. Cuando las personas tragan saliva infectada, podrían estar propagando el virus a otras partes de su cuerpo. Sus hallazgos, detallados en la revista Nature Medicine el jueves, podrían
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El expresidente de EE.UU. Donald Trump intentó encubrir este jueves la historia de lo que ocurrió durante los disturbios en el Capitolio el pasado 6 de enero. El exmandatario impulsó la falsa sugerencia de que sus partidarios estaban «abrazando y besando» a los agentes de policía y que representaban una «amenaza nula». Incluso,
Continue ReadingOnly two states — Arkansas and New York — have yet to announce when they’ll open Covid-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 16 and older, with the rest saying they’ll have done it no later than May 1, according to a CNN analysis. This comes as the pace of vaccinations has quickened. Yet with daily new
Continue ReadingHealth officials are warning Americans not to relax in the fight against Covid-19, despite a record daily number of vaccine doses being administered to the population. At a briefing Friday, the White House’s Covid-19 response co-ordinator Jeff Zients said that 71% of individuals 65 and older had received at least one vaccination dose and that
Continue Reading They are 10 people who went to the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday and never returned. Now they are victims of yet another mass shooting in the United States, whose lives are being remembered by family and friends. Their names are: Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, 51; store manager Rikki Olds,
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A roughly half-mile stretch of Indian Canyon Drive south of Interstate 10 in Palm Springs is finally open after a Southern California Edison repair project shut down the roadway since Monday. Southern California Edison crews were replacing power poles along the corridor from Garnet Avenue to Palm Springs Station Road. The work started Monday morning
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Cyclist Somen Debnath is on a journey across the worldto raise awareness for HIV/AIDS. Debnath, a resident of the village of Basanti in India, started his journey in 2004. Debnath stopped by the Coachella Valley this week, visiting the city of Indio. News Channel 3 photojournalist Inez Gonzalez caught up with Debnath during his desert
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