By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Algeria is circulating a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that would demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and order Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern city of Rafah immediately. The draft resolution, obtained Tuesday evening by The Associated Press, also demands that
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Seventeen artworks have been gifted to the Palm Springs Art Museum from Los Angeles-based scholar and collector Gordon W. Bailey, according to a statement from the museum. This is the first gift of Bailey’s to bring more representation to the museum’s “commitment to diversifying its collection.” The collection includes paintings, mixed media, sculptures and ceramics
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the jury
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, who built a mystique as the brash epitome of power, has never been more powerless to dictate his own fate. His reputation, future, and even perhaps the White House’s destiny, will on Wednesday be placed in the hands of 12 citizens of his native New
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the
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Firefighters were working to contain a brush fire that burned 10 acres along Highway 62 and Pierson Boulevard in unincorporated Desert Hot Springs Tuesday evening. The fire was first reported at around 3:20 p.m. and contained at 6:00 p.m. According to CAL FIRE, there were no structures threatened. Additional ground units were responding to the
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Dan Bylsma is officially back in the NHL. After we reported Bylsma would be the next head coach for the Seattle Kraken on Monday, the 53-year-old was formally introduced in Seattle on Tuesday. “I think coaching in the National Hockey League is an extreme honor and privilege, and it’s a partnership with the organization and
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Cathedral City High School was placed on a lockout due to a police investigation. The lockout was lifted shortly before 2:30 p.m. The Cathedral City Police Dept. told News Channel 3 that they responded to a call of a threat to the high school. Officers cleared the school with nothing located. CCHS parents were sent
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project. Gibson’s .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have finished their closing arguments after a marathon day in court. A prosecutor told jurors that Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016. Meanwhile, a defense lawyer branded
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues. Kennedy said Friday that he had a “visceral reaction against” the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War. Kennedy commented in response to a question about removing monuments during
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial have conclude. It was the final opportunity for prosecutors and defense lawyers to convince the jury of their respective cases before deliberations begin. Arguments lasted all day Tuesday, even stretching into the evening hours, with jury deliberations starting as early as Wednesday.
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory. At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito called police in 2021 following an exchange with the jurist’s wife, claiming that someone needed to “make her stop,” according to a report Tuesday in the New York Times. “Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian insurance company Sura has announced that it will withdraw from the nation’s health system because the resources it receives from Colombia’s government to manage more than 5 million patients, are not enough to cover its growing costs. Opposition leaders in Colombia regretted the company’s decision
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council has tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille to return to the position during the government’s transition period, council president Edgard Leblanc Fils said Tuesday. Conille was chosen by consensus after the council conducted hearings of candidates, Leblanc Fils said. Conille briefly
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud.
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An ambulance was requested in Whitewater today after a vehicle drove off the I-10 roadway. The incident occurred at 1:25 p.m. Tuesday, according to California Highway Patrol traffic records. The driver, a 50-year-old man, was traveling westbound when his Toyota Prius went off the right shoulder west of Haugen-Lehmann Way near Mile Marker 22, landing
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