By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Presidential visits to the border are usually short on substance and long on political theater and symbolism — starting with the choice of location. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, are making dueling appearances Thursday on the Texas border, but
Continue ReadingAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The family that had wanted to build the world’s tallest flagpole in rural eastern Maine has agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty for construction of more than 50 cabins without obtaining environmental permits from the state. The Board of Environmental Protection on Wednesday signed off on the consent agreement signed by
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump won their respective primaries in Michigan on Tuesday, but a glance under the hood of the results reveals serious concerns for both campaigns as they pivot to a likely November rematch that is looking more volatile by the day. Biden’s victory
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Deep divisions remain in the Tennessee GOP over how to implement a universal school voucher program. Different proposals are floating in the House and Senate and Republican members are publicly grumbling that they need more time to study the details. While various voucher bills are advancing,
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to spotlight how federal dollars are both helping cities and police departments manage crime, and providing job opportunities for youth in communities affected by that violence. Biden used a meeting with police chiefs from seven major police departments on Wednesday to highlight
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Thousands of law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics packed a Minnesota church to hail as fallen heroes three first responders who were gunned down in the line of duty. They were killed in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville earlier this month while responding to a report of
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Los directivos del banco de comida del Valle de Coachella agradecieron durante una ceremonia a los donadores y personalidades que ayudan en su misión de acabar con el hambre en el Valle de Coachella, por lo que este año los héroes fueron la alcaldesa de La Quinta Linda Evans y la organización “Visit Greater Palm
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A Joshua Tree resident was arrested Tuesday evening following a hit-and-run crash in the city of Palm Springs. The crash happened at around 7:35 p.m. on the 400 block of E. Tahquitz Canyon Way. Police learned that a vehicle traveling southbound on Calle Encilia struck a pedestrian within the crosswalk, while turning eastbound onto E.
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department released a report Wednesday that found “chronic, systemic deficiencies” in Mississippi state prisons that violate prisoners’ constitutional rights. The report marks the conclusion of a federal investigation into whether three state prisons in Mississippi failed to protect incarcerated individuals from violence and puts hundreds of individuals in
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Hace unos días la ciudad de Desert Hot Springs redujo la tarifa de impuestos que se cobra por el cultivo de marihuana después que otras ciudades habían hecho lo mismo con la finalidad de ayudar a los comerciantes de cannabis que se han visto afectados por los altos impuestos, la saturación de dichos negocios. Cathedral
Continue ReadingBy Heidi Schmidt Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The Chiefs superfan who made national headlines for robbing a series of banks pleads guilty in federal court. Xaviar Babudar, 29, otherwise known as ChiefsAholic, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of transporting stolen property
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA Draft will have a new home this year and for the first time in eight seasons have the space for 1,000 fans to attend. The league will hold the annual event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15. Recent drafts, which
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CNN By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservatives pressed the Biden administration Wednesday to justify a federal ban on bump stocks, a device that can convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire far more rapidly. But after 90 minutes of argument in the high-profile dispute, it
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press EAST LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) — Officials near Philadelphia are closing their investigation into a shootout and house fire that killed six members of an extended family. They say 43-year-old Canh Le shot and killed his brother, sister-in-law and two nieces before setting fire to the home and killing himself. The
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El papa Francisco estuvo en el hospital Isola Tiberina Gemelli Isola después de la audiencia general del miércoles, donde le hicieron algunas pruebas diagnósticas, informó la oficina de prensa del Vaticano. Después regresó al Vaticano, según la Santa Sede. Francisco, de 87 años, ha sufrido varios problemas de salud a lo largo
Continue ReadingSYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the constitution, clearing a key hurdle for legislation promised by President Emmanuel Macron in response to a rollback in abortion rights in the United States. Wednesday’s vote came after
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Paula Reid, CNN Hunter Biden went directly after the Republicans who have pursued him in their impeachment investigation over the past year, accusing GOP lawmakers in his closed-door deposition on Wednesday of peddling “baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father.” Kicking off his highly anticipated testimony, President Joe
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El próximo lunes de 8 de la mañana a 2 de la tarde se llevará a cabo un simulacro de un incidente con varias víctimas en Acrisure Arena y hospitales locales. El objetivo de este simulacro es probar protocolos y procedimientos de emergencia y practicar las respuestas operativas del personal y las agencias, simultáneamente en
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier. Water vapor — water in its gas form — is a natural greenhouse gas that traps heat, just like
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