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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) — Election Day is this Tuesday, leaving time to finalize plans for casting a ballot. To maximize participation among Riverside County’s approximately 1.43 million registered voters, election officials expanded voting access Saturday by opening 131 additional vote centers. This brings the total number of vote centers in Riverside County to 152.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) Coachella Valley veteran who recently took an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., is sitting down with News Channel 3 to share the trip, just over a week before Veterans Day. Honor Flight Network flies veterans to the nation’s capital free of charge to visit the memorials dedicated to their service. The
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By Emma Tucker, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of running over an undocumented immigrant from Mexico with a vehicle was released on a $30,000 bond Monday after appearing in court for a bond hearing, according to his attorney. A grand jury indicted Mario Alberto Morales Friday on
Continue ReadingBy Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost Election Day, and the balance of power in Washington is at stake as Americans vote to determine control of the Senate and House of Representatives — plus, settle races for governor and decide many other key issues. This is a comprehensive guide to poll closing
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do. Even the most carefully conducted polls are imprecise snapshots of public opinion, not precision instruments — and when they’re pressed into predictive tools, they don’t always get it right. But while surveys can’t provide an
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By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — On election day in March 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu filmed a controversial 28-second video, warning right-wing voters that Arab citizens were heading to the polls “in droves.” A week later, after he had won against prevailing expectations, he apologized, saying he did not intend to offend the Arab sector as
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has thrown out a case against two former FBI officials who were charged with lying to Congress as part of a winding probe from lawmakers focused in part on whether FBI investigators sought to minimize allegations of Biden family corruption and evidence related to Hunter Biden’s
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By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The judge overseeing the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three children, said Monday he would like to schedule her retrial for March – though prosecutors remained non-committal about whether they plan to retry her on first-degree murder charges. Prosecutor
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By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Emergency warning apps in Russia and Ukraine were hacked overnight Sunday into Monday, according to authorities in both countries. It’s not clear whether the hacking of the apps is linked. The apps warn the public of missile, drone and other threats. But rather than
Continue ReadingBy Eduardo Cuevas, Isa Mudannayake, Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen people were killed and over 90 others injured over a Halloween weekend marred by gun violence, with multiple shootings across the country upending celebrations. One mass shooting in California occurred as people went to get last-minute costumes at Spirit
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CNN By Holly Yan, Aaron Cooper, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) — In the blink of an eye, a private jet plummeting 450 feet per second nosedived into a Florida roadway, bursting into flames and killing all nine people on board. “It was a cataclysmic plane crash,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “It
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — As Palm Springs heads into Pride celebrations, a local ice cream festival is bringing attention to another community need: helping people afford food. The second annual Scoop Palm Springs Ice Cream Festival returns to Downtown Park on Sunday, November 1, with organizers pledging 100% of net proceeds to The LGBTQ
Continue ReadingBy Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — For three weeks in October, Veridiana Cunha became a so-called “soldier” for a digital army fighting to reelect Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Every few minutes, the 48-year-old would interrupt her day job in São Paulo as a copy editor and check WhatsApp for new instructions.
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By Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN Detroit (CNN) — As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race had seemed implausible. Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed the high cost
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – We’ve made it to the final week of the regular season for high school football. We’ve got 7 games during Week 11, which will include league title implications and rivalries. Palm Desert 28@La Quinta 36FPalm Springs14@Rancho Mirage28FDesert Hot Springs6@Yucca Valley13F*Indio22@29 Palms48FRio Honda Prep22@DCA41F**Shadow Hills0@Xavier Prep28FCathedral City@Desert MirageF (Thurs)***Banning41@Coachella Valley13F (Thurs)*
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By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — As Election Day comes to a close and results start to roll in, it can be difficult to understand what the numbers you’re seeing might be saying about who will ultimately win a key race. CNN Sightline, a new election tool designed to surface insights from CNN’s Decision Desk,
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A private jet traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas careened into the ground in Palm Beach County, Florida, Sunday afternoon, leaving a deep crater and burning debris just feet from nearby homes and businesses and killing all nine on board, officials say. Video
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By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to segregate ballots and delay certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the latest legal rebuke to a rash of Trump administration attempts to meddle in the 2026 midterms. US District Judge Sharon Gleason said
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By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his team announced Sunday. The 53-year-old experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he suffered a stroke, according to
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — A suspect allegedly planning a terror attack on a major Moscow museum was arrested by Russian authorities after a tip-off from the United States, Russia’s security agency FSB announced on Sunday. The FSB said information shared with Russia by US law enforcement led to the arrest of the Russian
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