The COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Palm Springs Convention Center will shut down on Wednesday, June 30, the county announced. Check Out: Palm Springs Convention Center hosting its first convention since March 2020 County spokesperson Jose Arballo Jr. wrote that the team operating this clinic will be converted into a mobile unit that will serve
Continue ReadingBy WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Gov. Tony Evers on Monday, June 28, with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced that beginning July 1, 2021, Wisconsin parents will have a new, gender-neutral option for identifying the parents of a child. According to a news release,
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Switzerland stunned reigning world champion France with victory in a nerve-shredding penalty shootout to book its place in the Euro 2020 quarterfinals. Kylian Mbappe, who endured a torrid night leading the line for France, capped a miserable evening by missing his team’s decisive fifth penalty, the only player not to score
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By Holly Yan and Hollie Silverman, CNN While families endure a fifth day of anguish waiting learn the fate of 150 loved ones, a sobering reality is setting in. “We know time is of the essence,” Maggie Castro of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said Monday. “We’re still in a rescue mode, but as you can imagine,
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Law enforcement officials are investigating a Saturday shooting that left two people dead in a Boston suburb as a hate crime. The victims were identified by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins during a press conference Sunday as Ramona Cooper, 60, a former Air Force staff sergeant, and retired Massachusetts State
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Now you tell us. He suspected it was all “bullsh*t” all along, says Bill Barr, the former attorney general, clearly trying to rehabilitate his image for the history books by distancing himself from the false notion of voter fraud pushed by former President Donald Trump. The problem for Barr
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN The mercury kept climbing Monday in heat-baked Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, again setting record highs. Canada and US cities in the Northwest are all reporting their hottest temperatures on record in a wave that has more heat in store. Seattle had topped its all-time record high Sunday when thermometers climbed to
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN The United Nations’ human rights chief is calling on the US to reform its criminal justice system, reimagine policing nationwide and provide reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans. In a report published on Monday, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged the US to make “transformative change for
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Sentencing was rescheduled today to Aug. 20 for an admitted gang member who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the drug-related robbery and killing of a Palm Desert man on Christmas Day 2016. Alejandro Zendejas, 27, of Indio was arrested along with 24-year-olds Anthony Garcia of Indio and Roger Rodriguez of La Quinta in the
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Physical punishment does not appear to improve a child’s positive behavior or social competence over time, according to a review of 69 studies from the US, Canada, China, Colombia, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The review, published Monday in the journal Lancet, found physical punishment such as spanking
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Physical punishment does not appear to improve a child’s positive behavior or social competence over time, according to a review of 69 studies from the US, Canada, China, Colombia, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The review, published Monday in the journal Lancet, found physical punishment such as spanking
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows that his base is all for it. Texas Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of Abbott’s border wall effort: 89% support it and only 8% are opposed,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business When tens of millions of Americans hit the road this holiday weekend, they’re going to find the highest prices for gasoline in nearly seven years. But many will also find stations that don’t have any gas at all. The national average price for a gallon of regular stands at $3.10,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español)— Cada año, Estados Unidos otorga miles de visas H-2 a trabajadores con o sin experiencia (no profesionales y sin un título académico) para trabajar temporalmente en el país. Esta categoría se divide en dos tipos de visas: la H-2A para trabajadores agrícolas y la H-2B para trabajadores no agrícolas. En
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Morgan Stanley is doubling its quarterly dividend from 35 cents a share to 70 cents a share, and buying back up to $12 billion of stock, the company announced Monday. The powerful Wall Street bank “has accumulated significant excess capital over the past several years” Morgan Stanley chairman and CEO
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Equipos de rescate han llegado a la ciudad costera de Surfside, Florida, mientras las familias esperan noticias sobre sus seres queridos luego del colapso de un edificio de condominios el jueves. Al menos 10 personas murieron, 151 están desaparecidas y 135 fueron contabilizadas en el colapso de Champlain Towers South
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The Palm Springs Convention Center is set to welcome back its first convention since closing during the start of the pandemic. The convention center was heavily impacted by the closure. As we reported in February 2021, 52 events were cancelled during the closure, equating to $7 million in lost revenue for the facility alone. The center
Continue ReadingBy Da Lin Click here for updates on this story SAUSALITO, California (KPIX) — People living in a Sausalito homeless encampment are running out of time. The city ordered them to leave by Tuesday but many said they will fight the eviction order. About 35 people live at the Dunphy Park encampment, right next to
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story DICKSON CITY, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — People don’t normally associate the words “Home Depot” and “exorcism” together, but that’s exactly what was happening in a Home Depot in Lackawanna County, according to police. The Dickson City Police Department said around 3:30 p.m. on June 21, they
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kent Sepkowitz Weeks after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine for adolescents, the United States hit a crucial milestone: More than half of the US population age 12 and older is now fully vaccinated.. While this was a remarkable accomplishment, it was actually the easy part. The next challenge
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