Naomi Osaka enjoyed the perfect start to her French Open campaign, beating Romania’s Patricia Maria Tig in straight sets — 6-4 7-6 (7-4) — on Sunday. Osaka, a four-time major champion, cruised through the opening set but was asked to dig deep to win a tiebreak in the second. The 23-year-old has never been past
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Palm Springs Saturday hit a high temperature right at the average mark of 99°. Due to a trough of low pressure, gusty northwesterly winds will be expected again for Sunday afternoon and evening. Winds for wind prone locations along I-10 could reach between 30-40 mph. Temperatures Sunday will be a couple degrees warmer, but still
Continue ReadingTravel is up, Covid-19 cases are down, and vaccines have been put in many arms. The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but Memorial Day weekend is set to look more like it did before the virus upended life more than a year ago. Americans Saturday were experiencing their first holiday weekend since the CDC changed its
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Police are looking for the assailants who opened fire a Florida club, killing at least two people and wounding at least 20 more, Miami-Dade police director Alfredo Ramirez III said. A white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up to a billiards club in Hialeah between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m., Ramirez said. Three people got out with
Continue Reading Two people were killed and at least 20 others were injured in a shooting early Sunday outside of a billiards club in Hialeah, Florida, according to Miami-Dade police director Alfredo Ramirez III. A white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up to the location between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m., Ramirez said. Three people got out with assault
Continue Reading Despite their portly frame and inherent meekness, Florida’s manatees are survivors. When power plants began popping up along Florida’s East and West coasts, manatees learned to follow the flow of the unseasonably warm water. When boats with sharp motors increasingly flooded their habitats, they learned how to live with debilitating injuries, or tried to. And
Continue Reading Two people were killed and at least 20 others were injured in a shooting outside of a billiards club in Hialeah, Florida, according to Miami-Dade police director Alfredo Ramirez III. A white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up to the location and three people got out with assault weapons and handguns and started firing into the crowd
Continue Reading(CNN) — Solo tres días después de su lanzamiento, Correos, el servicio postal de España, puso fin a una campaña de sellos postales ampliamente criticada que estaba inspirada en diferentes tonos de piel tras ser acusada por perpetuar el racismo. El servicio postal administrado por el gobierno presentó a principios de esta semana «Equality Stamps»,
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Founder of LA-based White Party Entertainment, Inc. Jeffrey Sanker has died, according to a Facebook post from the White Party Palm Springs. Sanker’s publicist Jack Ketsoyan also shared the news and memories of Sanker on his Instagram. Jeffrey Sanker In an interview with KESQ in 2019, Sanker reflected on the 30 year anniversary of the White
Continue Reading It’s hard to see art in the smoldering aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when White Americans destroyed a wealthy Black community in 1921, killing dozens and leaving entire city blocks in ashes. It’s hard to see triumph in the innumerable chapters of racism, bondage and hatred that have darkened our American story for hundreds
Continue Reading China’s cargo spacecraft, carrying supplies, equipment and propellant, docked with the space station’s key module Tianhe on Sunday, the official news agency Xinhua reported. The Tianzhou-2, or “Heavenly Vessel” in Chinese, autonomously rendezvoused and docked with Tianhe at 5:01 a.m. Beijing time, Xinhua said Sunday. It blasted off via a Long March-7 Y3 rocket at
Continue ReadingIt’s hard enough to beat defending French Open champion Rafael Nadal on the red clay courts of Roland Garros, where he has won a record 13 singles titles. But imagine the psychological hurdle of competing against a player so dominant that he is immortalized in a statue outside the stadium? That’s the challenge Novak Djokovic,
Continue ReadingAtlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested Saturday after police in an Atlanta suburb responded to a report of an assault and saw him grabbing a woman by the neck and throwing her against a wall. According to a press release from the Sandy Springs Police Department, officers responding to a call regarding an assault
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Anyone named James — that being a first or last name — just got one extra reason to visit New York City this year. The hotel James New York-NoMad is celebrating its fourth anniversary by giving 40% off stays of four nights or more to those carrying its namesake. As one of the most popular
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — Los visitantes temporales que viajan a Estados Unidos son el grupo más grande de migrantes. Entre las visas de no inmigrante más comunes está la B-1 y B-2, visas que se otorgan a los viajeros que vienen a EE.UU. por negocios (B-1) o por turismo (B-2) o una combinación de ambos. En 2019,
Continue Reading Seven people are presumed dead after a small plane crashed into a lake near Nashville on Saturday, authorities said. The victims were identified in a press release issued Saturday night by the Rutherford County Government as William J. Lara, Gwen S. Lara, Jennifer J. Martin, David L. Martin, Jessica Walters, Jonathan Walters, and Brandon Hannah.
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — Un Black Friday en mayo tuvo lugar en Caracas este viernes, en el marco del aniversario número 23 de la cadena de centros comerciales Sambil, con sedes en Caracas, Valencia, Margarita, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisimeto y Paraguaná. También en las tiendas ubicadas fuera de Venezuela, en Madrid, Curazao y República Dominicana. Tras
Continue Reading One person has died and six others wounded after a shooting late Friday in Miami, police said. Officers responding to gunshot detection system alerts in Wynwood shortly before midnight found several people with what appeared to be gunshot wounds, Miami Police Department spokeswoman Kiara Delva said. Some shooting victims arrived at the hospital on their
Continue Reading Dixie Lewis, the daughter of “Moneyball” writer Michael Lewis and former MTV correspondent Tabitha Soren, died in northern California last week, the author said in a statement to a local news outlet. Lewis, 19, and her boyfriend, Ross Schultz, 20, were killed in a car accident, according to a report from Berkeleyside.org. “We loved her
Continue Reading Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found the building locked. The 64-year-old went ahead with the oath-taking ceremony anyway — inside a tent on Parliament grounds. “(Though) it was
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