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By Devan Cole, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump is unlawfully constructing a massive new ballroom at the White House, teeing up a high-stakes showdown over the issue before the Supreme Court. “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to
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By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is calling on Goldman Sachs to sever all remaining ties with Kathy Ruemmler, the firm’s former chief legal officer, following her testimony last month about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter sent on Friday to Goldman CEO
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Journalist Don Lemon asked a judge to dismiss an indictment tied to his presence at a protest in a Minnesota church earlier this year, arguing the charges violate the First Amendment and are a result of a vindictive prosecution. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon
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By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump distanced himself from voters’ ire with Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, telling Punchbowl News in an interview released Friday he thinks voters are angry with the party more generally, but not him. “The question is will they vote? ‘Cause a
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By Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — An investigation is underway after dozens of decomposing human remains were found at a Chicago funeral home, authorities said. More than 50 bodies in “various states of decomposition” were located at the address associated with the South Chicago Chapel funeral home, Cook County officials said in a release Thursday.
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it. “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing,” the former vice president will say in a speech Friday night in New Orleans, “because the
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By Kaanita Iyer, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Friday she will vote against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, narrowing his chances at Senate confirmation for the role. With Sen. Mitch McConnell absent and all Democrats expected to vote against the confirmation, Blanche cannot afford to lose
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By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan, is stepping up his efforts to appeal to Democrats after their party picked progressive Abdul El-Sayed as their standard-bearer in the battleground race. In a new video first shared with CNN, Rogers speaks directly to camera to make his case
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — It looked like a scene from a horror film: A figure dressed in a baggy black and red clown outfit, their face partially covered, approaching a Ring camera late at night, glaring into the lens and whispering a warning, “I’m looking for you.” But the encounter was not just
Continue Reading KSDK, FAMILY PHOTOS, LAURA FLEMING, CNN By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — It looked like a scene from a horror film: A figure dressed in a baggy black and red clown outfit, their face partially covered, approaching a Ring camera late at night, glaring into the lens and whispering a warning, “I’m looking for you.”
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By Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — A US expeditioner in Antarctica was rescued last month in a daring mid-winter medical evacuation by an Australian aviation team in the middle of crippling temperatures and near pitch-black conditions. The “extraordinary” mission kicked off on July 28, when the Australian Antarctic Division made an “urgent request for assistance”
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By Wayne Chang, Brad Lendon, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s president and top officials late Wednesday practiced how they would respond to an attempted “decapitation strike,” an operation to take out the island’s leadership, like the US capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. An armored personnel carrier whisked President Lai Ching-te
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CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they had accused of feloniously vandalizing the Reflecting Pool earlier this summer. Judge Todd Edelman stopped short of barring prosecutors in Washington, DC, from being able to revive the
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they had accused of feloniously vandalizing the Reflecting Pool earlier this summer. Judge Todd Edelman stopped short of barring prosecutors in Washington, DC, from being able to revive the same
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By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, Angie Puranasamriddhi, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — A teenage gunman went on a rampage at his high school in Thailand on Friday, killing teachers and students, police said, in one of the country’s deadliest school shootings in recent years. The suspected gunman, 14, stormed the school after allegedly killing his grandmother
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THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – An update tonight on a story we have been following for years. Residents at the Oasis Mobile Home Park near Thermal say they’re working to make sure new tenants know their rights more than a year after a legal settlement. The Oasis Mobile Home Park continues to welcome new residents, but
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – After President Trump’s second round of birthright citizenship executive orders were signed today, a local immigration attorney is breaking down the order’s new provisions. Ally Bolour with the Bolour/Carl Immigration Group in Palm Springs says he doubts the executive order will have an impact with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – More than 1,800 free backpacks and a thousand free scoops of ice cream will be handed out tomorrow in Indio. The annual giveaway helps local students prepare for the upcoming school year, while bringing the community together for an evening of fun. It will take place during the “Food Truck Friday”
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Los Angeles County man was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for running what prosecutors dubbed a “DoorDash for drugs” that provided same-day delivery of cocaine and fentanyl-laced pain pills to customers, including two who died from overdoses. Erick Estrada, 37, also known as Franco Sanchez and Eric Freddy
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – OneFuture Coachella Valley is hosting its Gents Alliance College Send-Off at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, bringing together incoming and returning male college students from across the Coachella Valley before the start of the new academic year. The event celebrates students as they take the next step in their educational
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