By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a contentious military agreement with North Korea, a step that would allow it to take tougher responses to North Korean provocations. The development came as animosities between the rival Koreas rose sharply recently after North Korea launched
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Dave Alsup, CNN (CNN) — An 83-year-old woman suffered serious injuries when she was gored Saturday by a bison in the famed Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday in a news release. The bison was “defending its space” when It came within a few feet of her and then used its
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Former Kelley Blue Book Publisher Bob Kelley died on May 28 at the age of 96 in Indian Wells, the company announced today. At age 15, Kelley worked for his family’s car dealership in Southern California before serving in the Navy during World War II, and once he returned to the dealership, his uncle began
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he sees a direct link between the rise in death threats made against him and his family and public figures connecting him to Covid-19 conspiracy theories, which he noted happened earlier Monday during a contentious House hearing about the government’s response to the pandemic. “It’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he sees a direct link between the rise in death threats made against him and his family and public figures connecting him to Covid-19 conspiracy theories, which he noted happened earlier Monday during a contentious House hearing about the government’s response to the pandemic.
Continue ReadingWLS, DEBBIE WAJVODA, CNN By WLS Digital Team, Leah Hope, and Eric Horng Click here for updates on this story LOWELL, Indiana (WLS) — A hot air balloon crash in northwest Indiana left three people on board injured on Sunday evening. Two of those injured were airlifted to Chicago hospitals, and crews later moved the
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated on Tuesday after a report showed that U.S. manufacturing contracted in May, in the latest sign the economy is slowing. Oil prices fell and U.S. futures edged higher. India’s Sensex led the region’s losses, plunging 4.1% to 73496.24 as the vote count for the country’s six-week-long
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Officials say an 83-year-old woman was gored and seriously injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials said in a statement that the woman from Greenville, South Carolina, was near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake on Saturday when the bison lifted her off the ground
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Congratulations to Sienna Rodriguez and Jayvin Baxa! Congrats to our 2023-2024 Student Athletes of the Year, Sienna Rodriguez and Jayvin Baxa!Rodriguez – Indio, 4 sports, 4.37 GPABaxa – La Quinta, baseball, 4.4 GPA My Thai is awarding $1,000 to each high school for their efforts. Watch the full interview tonight on @KESQ! pic.twitter.com/usgu9mwUjl— Blake Arthur
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, has been indicted in a multi-year scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds. Arrested on Sunday, Weidong “Bill” Guan, 61, of Secaucus, New Jersey, appeared Monday before a federal
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The six-week election was seen as a referendum on
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press DEAUVILLE AIRPORT, France (AP) — ‘’To our forever heroes: Thank you” — those words inscribed by French schoolchildren on a big poster greeted dozens of U.S. World War II veterans, many in their 100s, as they arrived on Monday in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Teagan Kavan has earned a new nickname. “I now call her Ice Kavan,” Texas coach Mike White said. The freshman acquired the moniker by throwing back-to-back one-hitters against Stanford in the Women’s College World Series. Texas beat the Cardinal 1-0 on Monday night to advance
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe lifted off Tuesday morning Beijing time and entered a preset orbit around the moon, the China
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In celebration of Pride Month, LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is presenting a monthlong partial display of its collection at Welwood Murray Memorial Library. The organization is a community-based archive with a mission of recording and presenting “the history of LGBTQ individuals, businesses, organizations and events centered in Palm Springs and the Coachella
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The family of late 31-year-old Palm Springs resident Angeline Shipley are not giving hope that they can bring justice to her after she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding her bicycle in Cathedral City last month. Cynthia Kahn who helped raise Shipley and considers herself a stepmother figure said the family
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden laid into his predecessor and likely opponent in November’s election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments, saying Monday night that “this campaign has entered uncharted territory.” Speaking at
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Pop legend Cyndi Lauper will embark on the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” on Oct. 18 and will perform at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on Sunday, Nov. 24. This tour marks Lauper’s first major run in a decade and she will be joined by special guests who will soon be revealed. Tickets
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The public lashing Dr. Anthony Fauci faced on Capitol Hill Monday was illustrative of his enduring unpopularity with the GOP’s conservative base. Yet even as Republicans seek to capitalize on that dislike of the infectious disease expert, former President Donald Trump’s past elevation of Fauci is a potential vulnerability
Continue ReadingBy VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press DAMARAN BARU, Indonesia (AP) — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them. An hour into their patrol, the rangers spot another
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