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Jim Ratcliffe is the co-owner of soccer giant Manchester United.

Billionaire Manchester United co-owner sparks outrage by claiming UK ‘colonized by immigrants’

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, has sparked widespread outrage for claiming the United Kingdom has been “colonized by immigrants,” with club supporters condemning his language as dangerous and divisive and the prime minister demanding an apology. Ratcliffe, who founded petrochemical company Ineos and is one of

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A worker harvests rosebuds to be shipped to the U.S. ahead of Valentine's Day at the Ayura flower company in Sopo

The long trip your flowers will make before you can say ‘I love you’ this Valentine’s Day

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — This Valentine’s Day, your bouquet will likely travel thousands of miles in a jetliner’s cargo and refrigerated truck before it gets to your local florist and ultimately, your sweetheart. In the United States, most fresh cut flowers come from Colombia and Ecuador. Roses, chrysanthemums, and carnations are the

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Rep. Aaron Bean speaks with his staff in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 8

‘They put me on there to die’: conservatives unleash on GOP’s failures to carry out DOGE cost-cutting

By Annie Grayer, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency that upended the federal government at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term has stalled out on Capitol Hill, a reality that’s left conservative lawmakers fuming. Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings and blanket funding

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A Canadian flag is lowered to half-staff at the Guy-Favreau Complex in Montreal

Suspected shooter named as community gathers to grieve after Canada’s worst school shooting in decades. Here’s what we know

CTV NETWORK, FILE, CNN By Lex Harvey, Max Saltman, Caitlin Danaher, Hira Humayun, Billy Stockwell, Christian Edwards, Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The tiny Canadian mountain town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, suffered one of the country’s worst school shootings in recent history on Tuesday, when an 18-year-old woman killed at least eight people and

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Palm Springs Wind Wall Completed

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Good news for drivers in Palm Springs. The city announced Wednesday morning on social media that the long awaited Gene Autry Trail Wind Wall is finally completed. The $2.19 million dollar project was set in motion in April 2025, with the majority of funding coming from Measure A funds, a voter-approved

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US President Donald Trump walks past a painting of former US President Abraham Lincoln

Governors association says all members now invited to White House meeting as Trump defends exclusion of some Democrats

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The National Governors Association said Wednesday that a traditionally bipartisan meeting at the White House next week is back on after invitations were extended to all of its members, even as President Donald Trump continued to rage against two of the nation’s Democratic governors and the organization’s co-chair, GOP

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LA Galaxy collaborates with CVUSD to motivate and inspire migrant student athletes

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Coachella Valley Unified School District migrant student-athletes were given the unique and exclusive opportunity Wednesday, to meet with LA Galaxy soccer club players, amid the ongoing 2026 Coachella Valley Invitational preseason Major League Soccer tournament at Empire Polo Club in Indio. Students attended the LA Galaxy vs. St. Louis City SC match, followed by a

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Gisèle Pelicot leaves a courthouse in Avignon

Gisèle Pelicot’s first televised interview: 5 takeaways from the woman who launched a rallying cry against sex abuse

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — Gisèle Pelicot emerged as a global feminist hero in 2024 by transforming her horrific, personal story into a public battle against rape culture. On December 19, 2024, her former husband, Dominique Pelicot, was convicted of orchestrating her rape dozens of times by various men over nearly a decade

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