Looking to shop local? Just head to CVLocalLinks.com. You can scroll through a variety of restaurants, shops, hotels, fitness classes and more unique to the Coachella Valley. Local spots that need support after a challenging year. “2020 was definitely a lesson in being flexible,” said Ashley Skarin, owner of Body Deli. “Sometimes, we couldn’t even
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An ex-con was sentenced today to 47 years to life in state prison for repeatedly kicking his pregnant wife in the stomach and head until she lost consciousness in Palm Desert. Andrew Phillip Allen, 30, was convicted in March 2020 of seven felony counts, including inflicting corporal injury, assault with a gun, criminal threats and
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Es un cuento «tan antiguo como el tiempo»… y está de vuelta para más. El clásico animado de Disney, «La bella y la bestia» («Beauty and the Beast»), se convertirá en una serie musical de ocho episodios para la plataforma de streaming Disney+. La Bella y la Bestia tendrá una serie
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Buying Girl Scout cookies has become a long-awaited yearly tradition for many people in the US. But this year, the organization is faced with an unusual problem: Millions of boxes of cookies remain unsold, all because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Girl Scouts of the USA has has 15 million boxes
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Más de 15 meses después de convertirse en el primer estado de Estados Unidos en imponer una orden de aislamiento debido a la pandemia de covid-19, California reabrió por completo su economía este martes. La decisión se produjo luego de que más del 70% de los residentes elegibles recibieran al menos
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By Steve Almasy, Laura Ly, Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Tuesday brought reopenings in two of the largest states, with New York reaching an important vaccine milestone and joining California in dropping most of its Covid-19 restrictions. “This is a momentous day, and we deserve it because it has been a long, long road,”
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are the latest to push new state-level voting restrictions, with a key state House committee on Tuesday advancing a major election overhaul bill that the state’s Democratic governor blasted as “extreme.” “Pennsylvania had a free, fair and secure election in November 2020 with record
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By Amir Vera and Kay Jones, CNN A Colorado jury on Tuesday found one of the suspects in a deadly Colorado school shooting guilty of more than 40 charges, including murder. Devon Erickson was found guilty of first-degree murder degree with extreme indifference, first degree-murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and 30 counts of criminal
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By Hadas Gold, Amir Tal and Kareem Khadder, CNN Thousands of Israelis marched in a controversial flag-waving procession through east Jerusalem on Tuesday, risking a new round of tensions with Palestinians and posing the first test for Israel’s new government. The right-wing Jewish march was originally planned for last month as part of “Jerusalem Day”
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess After a mistrial was declared last month in the murder trial of Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, a judge in Ohio acquitted Biles-Thomas of the charges against him in a retrial on Tuesday, court records show. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Joan Synenberg granted a Rule
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church and John Sinnott, CNN A protester parachuted into Munich’s Allianz Arena moments before the start of the Euro 2020 match between Germany and France on Tuesday, injuring several people who were hospitalized, according to European football governing body UEFA. The yellow parachute had the words “KICK OUT OIL” and “GREENPEACE” emblazoned on
Continue ReadingBy Michael Conte, CNN The US Navy’s highest-ranking officer pushed back strongly against what he called efforts by two Republican congressmen to portray the US military as “weak” and “woke” in a hearing on Tuesday. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday’s comments came during a House Armed Services budget hearing as Reps. Doug Lamborn
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By Jessica Dean and Manu Raju, CNN Bipartisan talks on overhauling America’s policing practices are hung up on a key issue: Whether Congress should include new standards for when officers can be charged with crimes. The issue has dogged the two sides for weeks — and it’s far from clear how the matter will get
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Donald Trump is still publicly undecided about whether he will run for president again in 2024. Mike Pompeo isn’t waiting around. The former Trump administration official — he served as secretary of state and head of the CIA — launched a super PAC on Tuesday to run for president
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden arrived in Geneva ahead of lengthy and contentious talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the capstone on a European tour. CNN’s Phil Mattingly reports.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN President Joe Biden is girding himself for an epic confrontation of democracy vs. autocracy at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, even as some Republicans back at home are openly questioning if democracy has much of anything to do with America at all. The defense of
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Big Tech critic Lina Khan will chair the Federal Trade Commission, the powerful antitrust agency that’s targeted companies such as Facebook with fines and lawsuits, according to a White House spokesperson. Khan had been confirmed as a commissioner to the FTC earlier on Tuesday, in a 69-28 Senate vote. But
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jeremy Samuel Faust and Michael J. Mina Barring a major change, Tokyo will host the Games of the XXXII Olympiad starting late next month. That being the case, the organizers have two choices: use the Olympics as an opportunity to demonstrate to the world how even a disease as contagious as Covid-19 can
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic You know there’s something deeply wrong with American conservatism when a Republican member of Congress has to go to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and hold a news conference to admit it’s “offensive” to compare Capitol Hill mask-wearing rules to the Holocaust. But that’s what Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene did on
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Joe Biden’s showdown with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday is one of the most critical summits of recent times, and not just because relations between the two nations — which together own 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons — have plummeted to post-Cold War lows. The Presidents will meet in
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