The Coachella Valley Unified School District is showing off its summertime efforts to keep kids fed until they return to classrooms in August. The east valley school district’s new Superintendent, Dr. Francis Esparza was at the Mountain View Estates in Thermal Friday along with Riverside County’s Superintendent of Schools Dr. Edwin Gomez. Esparza was showing off the district’s
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — An exhibition center on Chicago’ lakefront is modifying its windows to prevent bird strikes after hundreds of birds crashed into the building in one night last fall. Nearly 1,000 migrating songbirds died after colliding with the McCormick Place Lakeside Center’s windows in October. Birds don’t see clear or reflective glass and don’t
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge in Kansas has refused to block the nationwide enforcement of a Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers to do background checks of buyers at gun shows and other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. That leaves Texas as the only state so far where a legal challenge has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — This week’s flooding in Vermont is adding fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state. The deluge resulting from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl wasn’t as bad for the dams as last year’s floods when five failed and nearly 60 overtopped. But the second bad flood
Continue ReadingBy Mounira Elsamra, CNN (CNN) — A Delta employee has been removed from their position with the airline’s social media channels following backlash over a post made from an official account that some perceived to be anti-Palestinian. In a statement shared with CNN Friday, Delta said the company “removed a mistakenly posted comment on X
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship. The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship. The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor Matthew McConaughey continues to tease about someday running for political office. McConaughey told a room full of governors Friday at the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City he’s still studying up on political leadership. Whether the star known for “A Time to Kill” and “True
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, Catherine Nicholls and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Six decomposing female bodies were found in a quarry in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Friday, according to police, sparking a protest at a nearby police station. “The alarm was raised following the discovery of six severely mutilated bodies, all female, in various stages
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani is no longer entitled to bankruptcy protection, a judge decided Friday, making it possible for creditors to immediately pursue his assets within days. The former mayor of New York sought bankruptcy protection after a jury awarded two Georgia election workers $148 million because Giuliani defamed them after the 2020 election. The judge’s decision
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking a business trip to Asia to promote the Bluegrass State. The trip comes amid turmoil over whether President Joe Biden should continue with his bid for a second term. Beshear is one of several Democratic governors whose names have been mentioned in speculation
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The sentencing was delayed again for a man convicted for the second time in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree in 2008. Daniel Carlos Garcia, 41, was scheduled to be sentenced on Friday at the Larson Justice Center, but it was delayed as his new attorney requested more time to catch up
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has thrown out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, finding that the former New York City mayor had flouted the process with his lack of transparency. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane formalized the decision Friday. Lawyers for Giuliani and his two biggest creditors — two former election workers he was found
Continue ReadingHALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A young person has been found dead after being swept away by floodwaters in Canada’s Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia as the remnants of Hurricane Beryl swept through the province. Police say the young person disappeared under the rushing water at a park in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Police say
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department doesn’t want to return to Jacob Chansley the infamous horned helmet and flag-pole spear that he carried inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Prosecutors say they need to hold onto the items as evidence in case Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” attempts to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking to broaden support outside Washington, D.C., for U.S. military aid to his country. Zelenskyy told the National Governors Association summer meeting in Salt Lake City on Friday that the world’s leaders should see for themselves the carnage wrought since Russia invaded his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wildfires fueled by strong winds and an extended heat wave have led to the first death in California of the 2024 season, while wind-whipped flames in Arizona have forced hundreds to flee from what tribal leaders are calling the “most serious” wildfire on their reservation in decades. The fires
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they’re doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 20
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California fire officials report first wildfire death of the 2024 season.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The truck driver who rescued an abandoned baby from the side of Interstate 10 in Louisiana this week says he first thought he might be seeing a discarded doll. But as Reginald Walton’s 18-wheeler drew closer, Walton saw movement. He called 911, pulled over and found the 1-year-old boy.
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