INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KESQ) – Roughly 2,000 unionized hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium will wrap up a strike-authorization vote tonight, setting the stage for a possible work stoppage as the venue prepares to serve as a key location in the World Cup soccer tournament. Cooks, dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders and servers represented by Unite Here
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) – Dozens of newly-declassified videos of Unidentified Flying Objects. The Pentagon says they’re incidents the government still cannot explain. I-Team investigator Peter Daut spoke with some of the nation’s top UFO experts who are speaking out about what they’re calling the biggest disclosure in human history. More than three thousand people
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By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, Jeff Simon, Danny Freeman, CNN Portland, Maine (CNN) — Graham Platner is still likely to win Maine’s Democratic Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary — but some voters in the state who once were excited by his campaign now say they’ll hold their noses while casting their ballots after a series
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By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota, Colombia (CNN) — South American electoral authorities may want to consider the soccer calendar when setting the date for the next vote. That seem to be the lesson from Colombia, where the excitement for its first World Cup outing since 2018 spilled into the political arena ahead of a presidential
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HEMET, Calif. (KESQ) – A San Jacinto man and his 10-year-old family member fatally injured when their sedan and a Cal Fire engine collided at a Hemet intersection were identified today. Arthur Fernandez, 43, and Arthur Fernandez Jr. of Hemet were killed in the collision that occurred Friday at Domenigoni Parkway and Gibbel Road, according
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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s youth have had enough. After years of exam scandals, persistently high unemployment, and opportunities slipping further out of reach, simmering frustration is boiling into open anger online and on the streets – and a demand for accountability that many say they can no longer ignore. For one Indian
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By Tierney Sneed, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department sent one of its attorneys to observe ballot processing in Los Angeles Friday morning, the county’s elections office told CNN, after President Donald Trump claimed earlier this week the US Attorney’s office there was investigating the vote counting. A spokesperson for the county registrar-recorder
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) — TODEC está organizando una colecta de alimentos solidaria hoy para apoyar a las familias inmigrantes en todo el Valle de Coachella y el Inland Empire. La organización invita a los miembros de la comunidad a donar alimentos, productos de higiene y otros artículos esenciales nuevos que puedan ayudar a las familias
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By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner on Thursday said he could not explain why a former girlfriend was describing his controversial chest tattoo as a Nazi symbol months before he said he learned of its meaning. Appearing on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Platner was asked about text
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By Devan Cole, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department told two federal judges on Friday that cases challenging President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” are moot because the administration has abandoned the program. The filings represent the first time the Trump administration has said in writing that it was no longer pursuing the fund,
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s push to construct a massive ballroom at the White House without congressional approval was sharply questioned by a federal appeals court on Friday during a high-stakes hearing in a case testing the president’s power. The two-hour-long hearing before a three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella City Council unanimously approved a 45-day temporary moratorium on data centers as the city moves closer towards a permanent ban. The move came after months of public pushback on a data center project at Avenue 52 and Filmore Street. Council members also approved terminating the agreement with Stronghold Power
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By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The chief of staff for Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, was charged Wednesday with bringing a firearm into the US Capitol complex, according to court documents obtained by CNN. Luis Angel Vega appeared in DC Superior Court Friday on the charges, which stem from
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – One day after President Donald Trump alleged — without providing any examples or evidence — that Democrats were cheating this week’s California primary election, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced today his office has “multiple” probes underway into alleged voting fraud. Essayli, a Trump appointee, wrote on social media Friday
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge struck down a series of Trump administration policies targeting asylum seekers and immigrants seeking benefits in a scathing court ruling Friday. Last year, the administration indefinitely suspended asylum adjudications and froze immigration applications for people who fell under the travel ban, among other measures, leaving millions
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The US labor market appears to have found its footing: The economy added 172,000 jobs in May, shattering expectations, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. The latest jobs report provided some reassurance that the US labor market may be stabilizing after a year of weak
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun delivered a searing rebuke to Iran on Friday, accusing it of using his country as a bargaining chip against the wishes of the Lebanese people in the conflict with the United States and Israel. In a rare and exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, President
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CNN By Frederik Pleitgen and Claudia Otto, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — A potential peace deal between the United States and Iran hinges on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, a top Iranian official told CNN on Friday, warning that the US would “enter into a dark corridor” should
Continue Reading By Frederik Pleitgen and Claudia Otto, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — A potential peace deal between the United States and Iran hinges on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, a top Iranian official told CNN on Friday, warning that the US would “enter into a dark corridor” should it
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By Hanako Montgomery, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One stranger from Tokyo is shutting down his business for a week to help. Another volunteer dropped everything to provide transportation and translations for American parents desperate to find their son. The weeklong quest to find James “Weston” Higginbotham in Japan has yielded no signs of the
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