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The USA Today Food and Wine Experience is on Saturday at Palm Desert Civic Center Park where Coachella Valley restaurants will be offering up the tastes of some of its best meals. This is the second year the experience is happening in the Coachella Valley. Last year it was held in Palm Springs. You can
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Virgin River” is back with a new season on Netflix. The series, follows Mel, a heartbroken nurse played by Alexandra Breckenridge, who moves from Los Angeles to a fictional Nothern California town to start over after the death of her husband Mark (Daniel Gillies), (Spoilers ahead.) Viewers of the
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High pressure continues to build in for the weekend, raising daytime highs to near 110. In anticipation of those hot temperatures an Excessive Heat Warning will be in place from 10 a.m. Saturday through 8 p.m. Sunday. Stay hydrated and try to avoid strenuous outdoor activities during the heat of the day. We expect numbers
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Mark-Paul Gosselaar says it can be hard to watch outdated episodes of “Saved by the Bell.” Gosselaar, who played Zack Morris on the series, joined the “Pod Meets World” podcast, where he cited some scenes in the ’90s teen sitcom that particularly bother him. He said that in the
Continue ReadingFRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison. The judge called the killings “brutal and heinous.” Gary Ferrell II was sentenced Thursday. He had avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to two murder
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year. But the island’s governor quietly vetoed a bill last month that would authorize the
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescue crews in helicopters and boats were plucking people from areas of central Greece inundated by tons of water and mud Friday after severe rainstorms caused widespread flooding that left at least six people dead, another six missing and many clinging to the roofs of their
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart scored 25 points and Sabrina Ionescu broke the single-season 3-point record to help New York beat the Los Angeles Sparks 96-89 on Thursday night, giving the Liberty eight straight wins. New York (32-7) moved a half-game behind Las Vegas for the No. 1
Continue ReadingMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Plans are underway for an iconic Miami Beach hotel and bar to be replaced with a high-end restaurant and affordable housing units, the building’s owner announced. The changes being submitted soon to the city of Miami Beach include a development with 40% of the units designated as affordable and a
Continue ReadingCNN By Alli Rosenbloom and Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Jimmy Fallon has apologized to his colleagues over allegations outlined in a Rolling Stone story published Thursday about a difficult work environment at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” CNN has learned. During a Zoom call with staff of “The Tonight Show” held after the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast have filed a lawsuit demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The 151 plaintiffs say the discharge damages the livelihoods of
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has strongly criticized the bloc’s representative in Austria for accusing the country of paying “blood money” to Russia for gas supplies. It said Friday that he has been ordered back to Brussels for discussions on the matter. EU representative Martin Selmayr said at a discussion event on
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors have accused Luis Rubiales of sexual assault and coercion for kissing a player on the lips without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final, the country’s prosecutors’ office said Friday. Rubiales, the now-suspended president of the Spanish soccer federation, kissed Jenni Hermoso
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — In a story published Sept. 7, 2023, about an Italian government crackdown on juvenile crime, The Associated Press erroneously reported that under a Cabinet decree, children as young as 6 could be arrested. The Cabinet decree expands the conditions under which juveniles older than 14 can be arrested and jailed, but it
Continue ReadingBy MEHMET GUZEL and KHALIL HAMRA Associated Press TASELI PLATEAU, Turkey (AP) — Rescue crews were waiting for doctors to give the go-ahead Friday for an operation to move out an American researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turke y, officials said. The
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — It’s never been easy for the leaders of the world’s largest economies to find common ground, but Russia’s war on Ukraine has made it even harder for the Group of 20 meeting to reach meaningful agreements this year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this year’s host,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that the number of Russian spies operating inside the United States is “still way too big,” despite efforts to kick them out. “The Russian traditional counterintelligence threat continues to loom large,” Wray said during public remarks at the Spy Museum in
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By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — It will be a bittersweet day for Britain’s royal family Friday as they mark not only the first year of King Charles III’s reign but the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. The late monarch died peacefully at the age of 96 at her
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When the Supreme Court considered the challenge to an Alabama congressional map that shortchanged the state’s Black voters, liberal justices expected the conservative majority to side with Alabama – if not gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act altogether. Instead, the justices emerged from their first
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee on Friday charged through warm Atlantic waters as the season’s first Category 5 storm, threatening to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean. The hurricane is not expected to make landfall, but meteorologists warned it would generate dangerous waves of up to 15 feet (5 meters) across
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