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CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (KESQ) – Cathedral City will receive the Human Rights Campaign Community Leadership Award during next month’s LGBT+ Days celebration, officials announced today. The award recognizes the city’s commitment to LGBTQ+ equity and its consistent perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index, which evaluates cities on non-discrimination laws,
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Fantasy Springs Resort Casino is hosting two Career Expos in February to hire Public Safety Officers and fill positions in Food & Beverage and Culinary. The events will both be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the resort’s Special Events Center. Thursday, Feb. 19 will an event to hire
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Beloved comic actress Catherine O’Hara died of a pulmonary embolism with rectal cancer listed as a secondary factor, her death certificate revealed today. O’Hara, 71, who starred in “Home Alone” and a host of other movies and television shows, died on the morning of Jan. 30 at St. John’s Health Center
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors on Monday moved to drop a criminal case brought during the Biden administration against Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted years ago for thumbing his nose at lawmakers investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. In a request to the federal
Continue ReadingAssociated Press (CNN) — US military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces US sanctions on its oil and has relied on
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By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down, following bitter fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Addressing a packed room of
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By Billy Stockwell, Charlotte Reck, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles stands ready to support British police as they assess a report that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor allegedly shared confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during the former prince’s role as UK trade envoy. The latest tranche of Epstein files released by
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By Sophie Tanno, Ivana Scatola, CNN (CNN) — Toluwa was waiting for her flight in an airport lounge in Washington, DC, when she said she was approached by a stranger. The pair got chatting and, after a while, she agreed to exchange numbers with him. It wasn’t until she got home and searched his social
Continue Reading CNN By Sophie Tanno, Ivana Scatola, CNN (CNN) — Toluwa was waiting for her flight in an airport lounge in Washington, DC, when she said she was approached by a stranger. The pair got chatting and, after a while, she agreed to exchange numbers with him. It wasn’t until she got home and searched his
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CNN By Hanna Park, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump – who skipped the Super Bowl and instead attended a watch party in Florida – denounced Bad Bunny’s halftime performance as “a slap in the face” and said “nobody understands a word” the Puerto Rican rapper was saying. “The Super Bowl Halftime Show
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By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The Prince and Princess of Wales have been “deeply concerned” by revelations from the trove of new documents related to Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, a Kensington Palace spokesperson has said. Speaking to journalists in Riyadh ahead of Prince William’s visit to Saudi
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Seattle Seahawks are officially the Super Bowl LX Champions after defeating the New England Patriots 29-13. Seahawks fans turned the Rancho Mirage Agua Caliente Casino 360 Sports bar into a sea of green and blue for the game. The first half of the game was pretty quiet as the Seahawks
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Update 7:43 p.m. : The forward rate of spread has been stopped. Firefighters will be committed for approximately four hours performing heavy mop-up, and Pierce Street remains closed between Avenue 70 and Avenue 72. Drivers are asked avoid the area as crews and heavy equipment continue working. MECCA, Calif. (KESQ) – Firefighters are on scene of three
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — At 81 years old, Jonathan Bechtel has spent more than six decades quietly making a difference in his community by donating blood. Jonathan first gave blood at age 20, after a friend’s mother needed a transfusion following an accident. Over the years, he has witnessed how much a single donation
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump – who skipped the Super Bowl and instead attended a watch party in Florida – denounced Bad Bunny’s halftime performance as “a slap in the face” and said “nobody understands a word” the Puerto Rican rapper was saying. “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is
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Update: 02/09 Authorities say 24-year-old Tristan Mitchell has been found unharmed. Original report: 02/08 PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Authorities are looking for 24-year-old Tristan Mitchell, who was last seen in the 1900 block of North Palm Canyon Drive. Mitchell is reported to be 5’9, 130 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was
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By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile government critics charged since Beijing imposed
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By Diego Mendoza, Ruben Correa, Gonzalo Zegarra, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — Key Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa has been placed under house arrest, his son said, two days after he was re-arrested by heavily armed men following his release from a jail where he had been held as a political prisoner. “We are
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By Kit Maher, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump called Olympic skier Hunter Hess a “real loser” on Sunday after the athlete expressed “mixed emotions representing the US right now” in the Winter Olympic Games. “U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics,”
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By Alison Main, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, a co-author of the law that compelled the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, on Sunday called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign over his links to the late sex offender. Asked on CNN’s “Inside Politics” if Lutnick – who the files
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