The City of Indio is gearing up for a festive weekend starting with their Annual Tree Lighting Friday night followed by the International Indio Tamale Festival Saturday and Sunday. Friday night’s Tree Lighting takes place in Downtown Indio off Towne Street and Bliss Avenue. The tree lighting kicks off at 5 p.m. There will be
Continue ReadingBy Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US House on Friday voted to oust disgraced former Rep. George Santos, who has been under fire since his election last fall over lies about his background and allegations that he misused campaign funds. Here’s how each member of the House voted: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press An appeals court has upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police. Smollett who appeared in the TV show “Empire,” which filmed in Chicago. He challenged the role
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Parents of school shooting victims in Tennessee can seek a court order to keep the writings of the shooter from ever being released to the public. The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the parents, the Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church all have a
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Regulators voted on Friday that New England’s long-shuttered shrimp business, which fell victim to warming waters, will remain in a fishing moratorium indefinitely. The shrimping business was based mostly in Maine and produced small, pink shrimp that were a winter delicacy in New England and across
Continue ReadingBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Developers of a proposed nickel ore processing plant in North Dakota that would supply electric automaker Tesla have reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Energy on how to spend nearly $115 million the federal agency awarded the project last year. The Bismarck Tribune reports that the agreement was the
Continue ReadingGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — For the first time in 11 years, Katie Ledecky has lost a 400-meter freestyle race in an American pool. Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh took the title at the U.S. Open championships in Greensboro, North Carolina. McIntosh took the title in a meet record of 3 minutes, 59.42 seconds. Ledecky touched next,
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawsuits against Donald Trump over the U.S. Capitol riot can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, rejecting the former president’s bid to dismiss the cases accusing him of inciting the violent mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Court of
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. He chose the neckwear after a diplomatic spat between the U.K. government and Greece over the Parthenon Marbles. The king’s late father, Prince Philip, was
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies. The state announced this week that the West Virginia Pregnancy Center Coalition was
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — A decade before she would become a historic first, Sandra Day O’Connor wanted the president to name a woman to the US Supreme Court. And she let the White House know. It was 1971 and then-Arizona state Sen. O’Connor wrote to President Richard Nixon telling him, “It
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Oregon State, Washington State and the Mountain West announced a football scheduling agreement Friday for the 2024 season that gives the two remaining Pac-12 schools six opponents each and positions them to operate as a two-team conference for at least a year. All 12 Mountain West schools
Continue ReadingBy SARA MELINI Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Three magistrates of Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal have left the country, hours after the country’s Congress opened them up to prosecution by stripping them of their immunity. It’s part of the continuing effort to interfere with the results of the presidential election. Guatemala’s immigration agency confirmed
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A broad rally on Wall Street closed out a fifth straight week of gains for the market Friday, driving the S&P 500 to its highest level in more than a year. The benchmark index rose 0.6%, eclipsing its previous high for the year set in
Continue ReadingBEVERLY HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan graduate is suing the state over the loss of his revered “G0BLUE” car license plate. Joseph Hardig III says the plate has been on family vehicles for years. But he was told it was assigned to another car owner when he recently tried to renew it
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (AP) — Katie Lou Samuelson and Devin Cannady took their marriage vows in April. They made another vow to each other long before that. An Olympic vow. It was July 2021 during the Tokyo Olympics, when Samuelson’s team won a gold medal — without her. Samuelson
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is slowing steadily, but it’s too early to declare victory or to discuss when the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said. Powell noted that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, rose at just a 2.5% annual rate in the
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court is hearing a petition by human rights activists seeking to halt the forceful deportation of Afghans who were born in Pakistan and those who would be at risk if they were returned to Afghanistan. The session started on Friday, a day after the country’s
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police are looking for an inmate who escaped from a Philadelphia jail by walking away from a work detail. It was the fourth breakout from a city lockup this year. Thirty-four-year-old Gino Hagenkotter was serving time on theft and burglary charges. Authorities say he was working in the orchard on the grounds
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The art of nodding off appears to have been mastered by breeding chinstrap penguins, who take more than 10,000 naps a day, with each nap lasting an average of four seconds, according to a new study. The animals accumulate around 11 hours of sleep daily using this strategy, challenging
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