Vendedores de College of the Desert y Palm Springs Village Fest encuentran un nuevo hogar. Después de un año de cierre de las ferias callejeras, los vendedores de College of the Desert y Palm Springs Village Fest se mudarán para un nuevo mercado al aire libre. Un nuevo movimiento está ayudando a las empresas locales
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Officials in the Chicago suburb of Evanston voted Monday to release the first batch of funds in a program offering reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of discriminatory housing practices, according to the Chicago Tribune and Evanston Now. It is the first of its kind in the country. Alderman
Continue Reading Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is now facing 16 lawsuits alleging sexual assault. Two new lawsuits were filed against Watson in Harris County, Texas, on Tuesday, alleging he assaulted women while receiving a massage in May and October 2020 respectively. A lawsuit filed earlier this week called Watson a “serial predator” and as with almost
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It was one of the videos that went viral during 2020’s first lockdown, cheering everyone up as they sat at home: a dolphin swimming close to the surface in what purported to be a Venetian canal. It was fake of course — it turned out to have been shot near the port in Cagliari, on
Continue Reading The White headmaster of a Catholic school on Long Island has been placed on leave following reports that he had a Black student kneel in apology last month, calling it “the African way” to apologize. The headmaster was temporarily removed from his job at St. Martin de Porres School in Hempstead, New York, after parent
Continue Reading Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked the voters of Israel for making his Likud the largest party after the country’s fourth election in two years but exit poll projections by the three main Israeli TV networks all point increasingly towards a period of renewed political deadlock. In a moment of ritualized drama, the TV networks published their
Continue ReadingIt turns out children really are listening to what you say. Children who overheard someone saying negative words about a particular group of people developed negative biases toward them, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Child Development. A group of 121 children ages 4 through 9 were split into smaller groups where
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Kai Lyles is the new MVP of the Desert Hot Springs football team. Normally the school’s athletic director, Lyles made a huge play in securing a game for his football program after Yucca Valley was forced to cancel this Friday’s game due to COVID-19. Update: We have a game! DHS will host Adelanto this Friday
Continue ReadingSen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois on Tuesday backed off her threat to vote against any of President Joe Biden’s nominees who aren’t minorities, after going public with her anger that the Cabinet lacks Asian Americans and saying she felt insulted by the White House’s attempts to brush off her concerns. The move came after a
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La Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Palm Springs aprobó por unanimidad un plan para que los estudiantes de la escuela intermedia regresen a la instrucción en persona. Los estudiantes de sexto grado regresarán el 19 de abril de 2021. Los estudiantes de séptimo y octavo grado regresarán el 26 de abril de
Continue Reading New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a racial justice commission that will be tasked with dismantling structural racism and addressing the disparities laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic. De Blasio announced the 11-member panel on Tuesday, keeping a promise he made during his State of the City address this year. The commission’s
Continue Reading Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson was called a “serial predator” in the latest of 14 lawsuits against him alleging sexual assault. As with almost all of the lawsuits, the new lawsuit said, “Watson’s behavior is part of a disturbing pattern,” but was the first to include, “Plaintiff believes Watson to be a serial predator.” Seven
Continue Reading(CNN Business) — Citigroup lanzó la iniciativa llamada «viernes libres de Zoom» como una manera de ayudar a los empleados agotados del banco a sobrellevar el estrés. Justamente, tras un año de pandemia. «Los límites entre el hogar y el trabajo que se han desdibujado y una incesante jornada laboral por la pandemia le han cobrado
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Lee Ann Colacioppo, the editor of The Denver Post, was on an afternoon planning call with her staff when news broke that that newspaper would have to cover yet another mass shooting. Matt Sebastian, the
Continue Reading(CNN) — Diez personas, incluido un agente de policía de la localidad de Boulder, murieron el lunes cuando un hombre armado atacó una tienda de comestibles King Soopers en Colorado. La policía recién está comenzando lo que dicen que podrían ser al menos cinco días de investigación, y muchas preguntas sobre el tiroteo y la
Continue Reading Connecticut officials are expressing their outrage after a state representative downplayed racism against Asian Americans during a General Assembly committee meeting. Democratic Rep. Michael Winkler made his comments during a Planning and Development Committee meeting Monday. In an exchange with Greenwich Housing Authority board chairman Sam Romeo about why Greenwich doesn’t have a larger Black
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A trip to the grocery store turned into a fight for survival at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado. The shooter entered the store Monday afternoon and opened fire, killing 10 people — including the first Boulder police officer to arrive on the scene. While families agonized for hours waiting to learn the fate of
Continue Reading The Palm Springs Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved a plan for middle school students to return to in-person instruction. 6th grade students will return on April 19, 2021. 7th and 8th grade students will return on April 26, 2021. Students will return under the hybrid model, which means that students will be
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One night after a man opened fire at a grocery store in Colorado, killing 10 people including a police officer, police departments in the Coachella Valley are honoring the victims. For some local departments, it’s a tragedy they say feels all too familiar. “This always hits close to home,” said Palm Springs Police Lt. William
Continue ReadingActress Jennifer Garner will join first lady Jill Biden on Friday for a trip to Alabama as part of the Biden administration’s “Help is Here” tour, promoting the American Rescue Plan. Garner was a vocal supporter of the Biden-Harris campaign. In October of last year, she hosted an Instagram Live virtual conversation with Jill Biden
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