The City of Palm Springs, in partnership with the Community Action Partnership of Riverside County, announces three convenient cooling centers that will be available for residents to retreat from the heat when temperatures sky-rocket this summer: Demuth Community Center, located at 3601 E. Mesquite Ave., Monday – Friday from 9 AM – 6 PM James
Continue ReadingMOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa college instructors teaching in China have been attacked while visiting a public park. Cornell College President Jonathan Brand said in a statement Monday that the instructors were teaching as part of a partnership with Beihua University in eastern China. Brand said the Iowa instructors were with a faculty
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses, spotlighting a slew of features Monday designed to soup up the iPhone, iPad and Mac. And in a move befitting a company known for its marketing prowess, the AI technology coming
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses, spotlighting a slew of features Monday designed to soup up the iPhone, iPad and Mac. And in a move befitting a company known for its marketing prowess, the AI technology coming
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden celebrated the Juneteenth holiday early with a Monday concert on the White House South Lawn with singers including Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. “Black history is American history,” Biden told the crowd. The Democratic president warned that some “old ghosts” in new clothes —
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops briefly violated the tense border earlier this week, South Korea’s military said Tuesday, as the rivals are embroiled in Cold War-style campaigns like balloon launches and propaganda broadcasts. Bloodshed and violent confrontations have occasionally occurred
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Coachella Valley Animal Campus representatives say they are working to address the county’s overcrowding crisis with their new surgical suite. You can watch KESQ morning anchor Angela Chen’s in-depth report about overcrowding across Riverside County animal shelters here. Since opening in 2006, the Coachella Valley Animal Campus, or CVAC, has maintained a partnership with Animal
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Two men connected to a toddler’s fatal opioid overdose at a New York City daycare have pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing bodily harm, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say the men admitted to storing fentanyl in the floorboards of a Bronx daycare’s playroom. They pleaded guilty to felony charges likely to
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER, TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95. His family said Lawson died
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER, TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95. His family said Lawson died
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America A Utah judge has set an August date for the execution of a man convicted in the 1998 killing of a 49-year-old woman in her home. The judge on Monday sided against defense attorneys concerned about what they said was an experimental drug combination for the lethal injection.
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, Sabrina Souza and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — For more than four weeks, Sen. Bob Menendez has been a mostly peripheral figure at his bribery and corruption trial. On Monday, at federal court in Lower Manhattan, the New Jersey Democrat became the main character. Prosecutors’ star witness, businessman Jose Uribe, told the
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Throughout the month of July, Desert Hot Springs High School is partnering with the Love & Love Tennis Foundation to host free tennis lessons to children and teens of all ages. Free tennis clinics will take place on July 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, and 27 from 8 AM to 9:15 AM at the
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) — The jury in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial began deliberations on Monday after the defendant declined to testify in his own defense and both sides presented closing arguments in the historic case against the president’s son. Special counsel David Weiss’ prosecutors urged the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, Christina Maxouris, Joe Sutton and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel is fully operational again, response officials announced Monday, more than two months after a massive cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers and cutting off access to the crucial shipping
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the federal criminal classified documents case against Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in Florida has denied efforts to dismiss nearly 10 of the 41 charges in the indictment against them on several technical issues. District Judge Aileen Cannon did,
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates has struck a paragraph from the indictment but denied a defense request to dismiss some of the charges. The paragraph concerns allegations that Trump, in 2021 while no
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Desert Hot Springs is working to clean up its city and leaders plan to crack down on violators. Officials said in a recent newsletter by the Desert Valley Disposal that beginning July 1, the city’s code compliance division will issue citations to landowners who leave uncontained waste curbside without prearranging collection. Code compliance will also
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From May 1 through May 31, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the San Diego Field Office encountered 165 separate smuggling attempts, seizing 4.31 pounds of marijuana, 21.73 pounds of heroin, 913.9 pounds of cocaine, 561.91 pounds of fentanyl, and 16,408.94 pounds of methamphetamine. On one of these seizures, occurring on Monday,
Continue ReadingBAKER COUNTY, Ore. (AP) — A dog has helped his owner get rescued after a car crash in a steep ravine in mountainous northeastern Oregon. The Baker County Sheriff’s Office said a man was driving with his four dogs on a remote road just over a week ago when he crashed into the ravine. One
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