Update: 11/05/21: Police identified the woman as Dayana Hernandez, 38, of Desert Hot Springs Update 10/26/21: Palm Springs Police confirmed on Tuesday that they are now officially investigating this death as a homicide. Police are asking anyone who witnessed or has information related to this murder to contact Detective Ben Ryan at 760-323-8145. Anyone wishing
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CNN, WVIR, WCAV, HBO, VICE NEWS, BRENNAN GILMORE, GETTY IMAGES, ALEJANDRO ALVAREZ, NEWS2SHARE, HECTOR E ACALA, SENATE.GOV, INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA, HEATHER HEYER, FACEBOOK, HBO/Vice News, Alejandro Alvarez/News2Share, Heather Heyer/Facebook By Amir Vera, CNN Four years after White supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for the “Unite the Right” rally, a civil trial that started Monday
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince, citing his “indelible mark on Minnesota and American culture,” The Associated Press has learned. The medal is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors and
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company’s 17-year history. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing a
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A closely watched survey of German business optimism has sagged for the fourth month in a row. The lower reading Monday for the Ifo Institute’s index is underlining concern about the impact on Europe’s largest economy from sharply higher energy prices and troubles getting raw materials and parts. The head of
Continue Reading FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A closely watched survey of German business optimism has sagged for the fourth month in a row. The lower reading Monday for the Ifo Institute’s index is underlining concern about the impact on Europe’s largest economy from sharply higher energy prices and troubles getting raw materials and parts. The head of
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Nobelium, the Russian hacking group responsible for breaching SolarWinds, is still at it. The Russian hackers behind that successful 2020 breach of US federal agencies compromised as many as 14 technology firms since May as part of another apparent espionage campaign, Microsoft said Monday. The hackers have been hitting a
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military has seized power, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister and other officials. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest Monday’s coup. The Sudan Doctors’ Committee said security forces opened fire on some of the crowds, and three protesters
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch climate experts are warning that the low-lying Netherlands could face higher sea level rises than previously forecast as well as dangerous weather events caused by climate change. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute issued the stark warning on Monday in a new update based on
Continue ReadingBy Jeremiah Rodriguez, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV Network) — When it comes to holiday shopping, a new survey suggests Canadians are expected to go return to pre-pandemic levels. A new Retail Council of Canada (RCC) survey has found that Canadians say they are going to spend significantly
Continue ReadingBy Christy Somos, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A rise in teen girls developing “tic-like” behaviours could be linked to TikTok, along with an increase in anxiety and depression, resulting in symptoms similar to Tourette’s syndrome, doctors say. In a study entitled “Rapid Onset Functional Tic-Like
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says a judge has charged 68 people in this month’s deadly clash in Beirut that left seven people dead and dozens wounded. The clash south of Beirut on Oct. 14 was the worst fighting in the capital in years. It broke out during a Hezbollah-organized protest against the
Continue Reading By AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA Associated Press TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Preliminary results from Uzbekistan’s presidential election show the incumbent leader winning a second five-year term in the tightly controlled Central Asian nation. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev received 80.1% of Sunday’s vote, according to the country’s Central Election Commission. Mirziyoyev took office in 2016 following the death of
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook has for years struggled to crack down on content related to what it calls domestic servitude: “a form of trafficking of people for the purpose of working inside private homes through the use of force, fraud, coercion or deception,” according to internal Facebook documents reviewed by CNN. The company
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Environmental protesters pressuring the British government to insulate all homes within a decade have resumed a road-blocking campaign in London ahead of the United Nations’ annual climate conference. As commuters headed to work on Monday, demonstrators from the Insulate Britain campaign obstructed major roads into the capital’s financial centers. Some demonstrators glued
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Environmental protesters pressuring the British government to insulate all homes within a decade have resumed a road-blocking campaign in London ahead of the United Nations’ annual climate conference. As commuters headed to work on Monday, demonstrators from the Insulate Britain campaign obstructed major roads into the capital’s financial centers. Some demonstrators glued
Continue ReadingCNN By Yasir Abdallah, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mostafa Salem, Jennifer Deaton and Kara Fox, CNN Sudan’s military dissolved its power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency Monday, catapulting the country into its biggest political crisis in its two-year-old transition. The coup comes after months of rising tensions in the country, where military and civilian
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has expressed concern after China and Russia held a joint naval exercise in which 10 of their warships passed through international waterways between its northern and southern islands. The warships did not violate Japanese waters. Japan considers China’s increasingly assertive maritime activities as a regional security
Continue ReadingBy Susannah Cullinane, CNN As the number of new daily cases of Covid-19 continues to fall in the US, the country awaits a major milestone that could provide another critical tool in the fight against the pandemic — the first vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. And Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former US Food
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say that two soldiers were lightly hurt when a group of some 60 migrants tried to force their way across the border from Belarus. The Border Guards said the troops were treated at a hospital for facial injuries following the events Sunday. European Union members Poland and the
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