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Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations peacekeeping chief says U.N. peacekeepers are staying in their positions on Lebanon’s southern border despite Israel’s request to vacate some areas before it launched its ground operation. Jean-Pierre LaCroix told reporters Thursday that the commander and liaison officers from the U.N. force also are in constant
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The impacts of Hurricane Helene are reaching out into the Coachella Valley. On Thursday, officials with Eisenhower Health confirmed that the hospital is experiencing a shortage of IV fluid. The company that manufactures IV fluids is based out of North Carolina. “Like many health care organizations, Eisenhower Health is feeling the effects of the recent
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign have
Continue ReadingCNN By Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-arranged flights have brought about 350 Americans and their immediate relatives out of Lebanon this week during escalated fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. That’s as thousands of Americans still there face airstrikes and diminishing commercial flights. In Washington, White House officials met with two top Arab American officials to discuss
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are concerned that “election-related grievances,” such as a belief in voter fraud, could motivate domestic extremists to engage in violence in the weeks before and after the November election, as it did during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol,
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The two local Massage Envy locations that shut down last week will reopen. Members were notified that the Massage Envy locations in Palm Desert and La Quinta will reopen later this month. An e-mail notification says the locations were acquired by a franchise group that operates other Inland Empire locations. They also confirm that most
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are flipping Jack Flaherty and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto in their rotation for the National League Division Series against the rival San Diego Padres. Yamamoto will start Game 1 on Saturday and Flaherty will go in Game 2 on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. The changes
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Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Millones de personas en el oeste de Estados Unidos experimentan una peligrosa e histórica ola de calor en octubre, con temperaturas tan extremas que serían consideradas altas incluso en el pico del verano. El calor ha sido tan intenso que Estados Unidos alcanzó y empató la temperatura más alta jamás
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Reading, Pensilvania (CNN) — Tim Walz, recién salido de su debate vicepresidencial, llegó el miércoles por la noche a un restaurante de propiedad puertorriqueña aquí, en el sureste de Pensilvania, para hablar con los votantes latinos. “Esto va a depender de nuestros estados del ‘muro azul’, de Pensilvania”, dijo el gobernador de Minnesota
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota has had a frustrating and uneven start to this season, losing all three games against power conference teams in painful ways. For all the setbacks and struggles, the Gophers have been at their best while defending the pass — as in best-in-the-nation best. They’re the only team in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked. South Korea’s leader had warned earlier this week that Kim’s regime would collapse if he attempted to use nuclear arms. The exchange of such rhetoric between the rival
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN (CNN) — Trips to a strip club, gun shooting range, and free airfare were some of the perks offered as part of an elaborate scheme by current Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce to woo potential Arizona State University (ASU) football players and their parents while the former NFL player
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Three people were arrested after a police pursuit in connection with train burglaries in the Coachella Valley. The incident started at around 9:00 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the area of Lincoln Street and Avenue 60 in Thermal regarding found property. The reporting party told police that they found items that were possibly stolen and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild was resolved Thursday when the Massachusetts governor stepped in to protect Nibi. The state issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Los estadounidenses que tardan para planear viajar al extranjero ahora tienen un poco más de margen de maniobra que antes. El Departamento de Estado anunció este jueves que el tiempo habitual de tramitación de los pasaportes estadounidenses se redujo a entre cuatro y seis semanas. Previamente, la demora era de entre
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as children. Many
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti joined a chorus of major conference leaders suggesting the NCAA Tournament be expanded beyond the current 68 teams. “I think there are some positive feelings towards expansion in our league,” Petitti said Thursday at Big Ten Media Day. The NCAA presented a plan
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By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican soldiers opened fire at a pickup truck carrying migrants, killing six people from Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru, in an incident that the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described as a “regrettable.” The tragic event occured on Tuesday evening when soldiers spotted a vehicle carrying 33 migrants “going at
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