Plenty of clouds overhead today but much less activity on the radar around Southern California compared to earlier this week. A patch of showers has developed over the High Desert late tonight, moving south into Joshua Tree National Park. A Flood Watch remains in effect for much of Arizona, where thunderstorms are more prevalent. Partly
Continue ReadingBy John Bonifield, CNN The vast majority of cases in the growing monkeypox outbreak are among men who have sex with men, according to the World Health Organization. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised members of this community Wednesday to limit their exposure to the virus by reducing their number of sex partners and reconsidering
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN A new CNN poll finds 75% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want the party to nominate someone other than President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a sharp increase from earlier this year. The poll comes as Biden’s approval ratings remain low and most Americans are discontented with the state
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On Wednesday evening, Supervisor V. Manuel Perez and Riverside County agencies came together to discuss efforts to provide relocation assistance to families of the Oasis Mobile Home Park. The $30 million grant seeks to improve their living conditions. “We need to gather their information, their concerns, we need to hear their voices. But at the
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“An act of violence on one of us is an act of violence on all of us.” That’s what Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez wrote to his Facebook followers on Wednesday. The post was in response to our report on the murder of Brandon Anguiano, 16, and Jestine Carrillo, 17. The teen couple was gunned down
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN Video produced by Amy Li As Cody Simpson stood behind the starting blocks at his first Olympic swimming trials last year, the experience felt completely new but also strangely familiar. With a big crowd watching on and fans chanting his name, it transported him back to the thick of his music
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By Michelle Watson, CNN A New Jersey family says the wrong body was in their mother’s casket, which had to be lifted out of the ground during the funeral service, according to a lawsuit that was filed Monday in Bergen County. Kummi Kim, Yoonsung Kim, Jungmi Kim Walder and Kummi’s husband, Taichul Kim, are suing
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Domenico Vicini has become the oldest player to win a Davis Cup match. He turns 51 in September. Vicini and doubles partner Marco de Rossi of San Marino beat Martin Muedini and Mario Zili of Albania 6-3, 7-6 on Wednesday in Group IV play. The match was Vicini’s 99th overall in
Continue Reading FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old boy shot and killed three siblings at a home near Fairbanks, Alaska, and was found with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Alaska State Troopers say they received a report of shots fired at a home in the Fairbanks area on Tuesday afternoon. Responding troopers found four children
Continue Reading By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The principal of the Texas school where the nation’s deadliest classroom shooting in a decade happened is disputing some key findings of a legislative report on the attack. In a statement her attorney issued Wednesday, Mandy Gutierrez rejected a legislative committee’s conclusion that a “culture of complacency” over safety at
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG Associated Press Small, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico, where they are intertwined with the identity of Indigenous communities. The Albuquerque Museum Foundation celebrated the repatriation of the dozen sculptures in a ceremony Wednesday. The local Consulate of Mexico accepted Olmec
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Juliette Binoche is tackling a new role that even she’s surprised she ended up playing. The French actress, an Oscar-winner for “The English Patient” and star of “Chocolat,” plays a gritty, weathered truck driver named Sally in her new movie, “Paradise Highway.” When she is unknowingly tasked with trafficking a young girl
Continue Reading SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities have charged two men with first-degree murder in the killing of Ripudaman Singh Malik, a man acquitted in 2005 for the bombings of two Air India jets that killed 331 people. Malik was shot July 14 while sitting in his car outside his business in Surrey, Briish Columbia.
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin announced Wednesday they had reached an expansive agreement that had eluded them for months on health care, energy and climate issues, taxes on higher earners and corporations and federal debt reduction. The two Democrats
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has been engaging with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he could sit for a closed-door deposition with the panel as soon as this week, multiple sources familiar with the committee’s schedule tell CNN. Pompeo’s potential appearance
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Mark Morales, CNN The man accused of killing a young mother as she pushed their baby in a stroller was indicted for murder Wednesday, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Isaac Argro, 23, appeared in the New York Supreme Court on Monday and was charged with second-degree murder and two
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A bill to help Veterans affected by burn pits failed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, drawing criticism from Congressman Raul Ruiz, who authored some of the key provisions including one in honor of a local Veteran. The PACT Act failed to get the necessary 60 votes. The final vote came in at 55 yes,
Continue Reading NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress. The official government reaction
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in more than three decades to tame high inflation. The Fed’s move will raise its key rate, which affects
Continue Reading HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean off Southern California last year will pay nearly $1 million in cleanup costs. The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to accept a proposed claim settlement with Amplify Energy Corp. over
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