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Month: June 2025

Coachella Valley Disaster Preparedness Network: planning can make a difference in a disaster

PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Disaster can strike anytime, anywhere – and that’s why it’s important to take action before that happens. Whether it’s major flooding like we saw during Tropical Storm Hilary, wildfires, or other natural disasters, the Coachella Valley Disaster Preparedness Network (CVDPN) says planning now can make all the difference. CVDPN is

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A person tries to stay cool in midtown Manhattan on Monday during extreme heat.

Tuesday was the hottest day in over a decade for parts of the East Coast. When will this extreme heat wave end?

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A long-lasting extreme heat wave reached its dangerous crescendo Tuesday, bringing the hottest day in a decade to some major East Coast cities and putting millions of already fatigued Americans at risk. The brutal conditions, spurred by a potent heat dome, peaked Tuesday after building over the weekend

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A view of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport

Florida to detain migrants in new Everglades facility dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

By Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls it, is being erected on a little-used airstrip in the

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Prosecutor: Deputy behaved like cowboy, had ‘no right’ to take suspect’s life

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – An ex-Riverside County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a wanted man in what he contended was self-defense behaved like a “cowboy,” unjustifiably creating a lethal situation, a prosecutor said today, while the defendant’s attorney argued the shooting was unavoidable under the circumstances.    Oscar Rodriguez, 44, is charged with first-degree murder

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The CDC's independent vaccine advisers are scheduled to meet on June 25 and June 26.

Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have “long-term consequences in the brain.” But the study doesn’t appear to

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El martes fue el día más caluroso en más de una década en algunas zonas de la costa este. ¿Cuándo terminará la ola de calor?

Por Mary Gilbert, CNN Una prolongada ola de calor extremo alcanzó su punto más peligroso este martes, trayendo el día más caluroso en una década a algunas de las principales ciudades de la costa este y poniendo en riesgo a millones de estadounidenses ya agotados. Las condiciones extremas, causadas por un potente domo de calor,

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