The Palm Springs Black History Month Committee, Palm Springs Art Museum and the city will host a series of free and educational events starting next week for Black History Month. A Black History Month Kick-Off event, celebrating the Harlem Renaissance and African American culture and arts, will get underway at 5:30 p.m. next Thursday, according
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer When Jim Harbaugh took a pay cut from Michigan after the 2020 season, getting another chance to be an NFL head coach seemed like a long shot for him. If Nick Saban had retired after the 2022 season it’s doubtful Kalen DeBoer would have been his replacement
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a third, or 28%, of Gen Z adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, a larger share than older generations, according to a new report by PRRI, a nonprofit that conducts research on religion, values and public policy. The report, titled “A political and cultural glimpse into America’s future,” sought to highlight
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to operate and fly on another world, lifting off on April 19, 2021. Imagery and data returned to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly have passed a bill that would call for a binding statewide referendum to ban abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Wisconsin law currently prohibits abortion after 20 weeks. The Assembly approved the bill Thursday on a 53-46 vote. The proposal
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night, marking the nation’s first known execution using nitrogen gas. Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire and already survived a botched execution attempt by lethal injection, was at the center of
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers in a show of support for Israel have given final passage to a bill to define antisemitism in state law, sending it to the governor for his expected signature. The Senate approved the measure by a 44-6 vote Thursday with Republicans united in support of
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Officials say scores of sea turtles stunned by cold temperatures along the North Carolina coast have died. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology says it took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout on Sunday, but only 36 survived. Cape Hatteras National Seashore says the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE BRADLEY Associated Press COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Todd Helton and Joe Mauer will become just the sixth pair of players inducted together into the Hall of Fame after spending their big league careers with one organization. “A lot of things had to go right,” Helton said Thursday during a news conference in the
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Four high school students in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the fatal beating of their schoolmate that was caught on cellphone video and shared widely across social media. A grand jury in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, returned an indictment last week against the teens,
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say the district attorney in the Georgia election interference prosecution should be removed from the case. They say Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “inappropriately injected race into the case and stoked racial animus” in response to allegations of misconduct against
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Unless blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama will attempt to put a man to death with nitrogen gas Thursday night, a never used execution method that the state claims will be humane but critics call cruel and experimental. Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two federal agencies are looking to better protect endangered whales amid a surge in offshore wind farm development. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released final plans Thursday to protect endangered North American right whales. Only about
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2024 Grammy Awards are fast approaching — and it is never too early to plan your viewing experience. The 66th Grammy Awards will take place Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Most of the awards are handed out before that during the
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A New York City woman died after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts, part of a batch that has since been recalled. Stew Leonard’s announced Tuesday that Vanilla Florentine Cookies sold in its grocery stores in Danbury and Newington in Connecticut from Nov. 6 to Dec. 31 were being recalled in
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says its little Mars helicopter has flown its last flight. The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over. Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them. The action targets Amazon, Google and Microsoft and their sway over the generative AI boom that’s fueled demand
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them. The action targets Amazon, Google and Microsoft and their sway over the generative AI boom that’s fueled demand
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, Arit John, Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is growing more defiant in the face of Donald Trump’s efforts to push her out of the 2024 Republican primary race, poking and prodding at the former president and encouraging supporters to wear Trump’s
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys are joining calls for the dismissal of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president and his co-defendants in Georgia, pointing to alleged misconduct between Willis and her lead prosecutor. In a filing in Fulton County Superior Court
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