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By Tori B. Powell, Briana Waxman and CNN Staff Hurricane Isaias’ powerful center made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a 105 mph Category 2 hurricane at around 8:30 p.m. CT Friday. Isaias is packing a punch. In addition to damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge continues along the Gulf Coast and flooding rain is spreading inland.
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Drivers heading to HeadTrip in Indio this weekend should prepare for traffic delays and road restrictions, according to Indio police. Sgt. Abraham Plata said police will have additional traffic officers and increased patrols in the surrounding area, including officers watching for impaired drivers. According to Indio police, Avenue 50 is completely
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — What will Vice President JD Vance say while campaigning Friday in Ohio? Will the Texas Senate candidates debate by this Thursday? And who else will get an endorsement from former President Barack Obama, who has been on endorsement spree this week? Unlike election outcomes, all of these political questions
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By Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russian pro-Kremlin military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Rybar Telegram channel, was detained in Montenegro on Friday along with several associates, Montenegrin authorities said, before being ordered to leave the country. Rybar, which British and US authorities have accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, has
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By Annie Grayer, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared Wednesday that the path to a Democratic majority goes through Trump country, with his party seriously battling for seats that the president won by double digits two years ago. But with limited resources, there’s still friction over whether to play it
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By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the outgoing senator’s distance from his campaign. “He’s clearly not helping. He wants me to lose,” the Texas
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — A driven and caring 19-year-old packed her belongings in Florida and traveled over 500 miles to live out her dream of studying computing in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was there, in January 1995, that Colleen Slemmer’s life was cut short. She was murdered by her 18-year-old classmate Christa Pike. Pike
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CNN By John Miller, Julianna Bragg, Mark Morales, Alex Stambaugh, Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Federal immigration agents shot and wounded a driver while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat Thursday during a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx in New York City, because the agents believed their lives were in danger, federal
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – A two-vehicle crash temporarily impacted traffic Thursday night at the intersection of Dinah Shore Drive and Toni Street in Palm Desert. According to News Channel 3’s crew on the scene, one vehicle had significant damage and remained in the intersection, while a second vehicle came to rest on a nearby
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By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Singapore, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, has become the most polluted on the planet as it chokes under a blanket of thick, toxic smog caused by fires in neighboring Indonesia. Pollution has cast a pall on the city-state as it gets ready to host a packed
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ADELANTO, Calif. (KESQ) – The federal government’s $950 million purchase of three immigration detention facilities in Adelanto is raising questions about transparency, state oversight and what the change could mean for people being held inside. The purchase transfers ownership of the Adelanto West ICE Processing Center, Adelanto East ICE Processing Center and the Desert View
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The City of Palm Springs is asking residents to weigh in on how the city’s mayor should be selected in the future. City leaders have launched a community survey to gather feedback on whether Palm Springs should continue its current system of rotating the mayoral position among elected city council
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CNN By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon said Thursday it will livestream the military’s first firing squad execution in decades, allowing the public to watch as the man who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood is put to death. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a new survey on one of the African nation’s most remote islands. The survey, led by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter in the UK,
Continue Reading CNN By John Miller, Julianna Bragg, Mark Morales, Alex Stambaugh, Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Federal immigration agents shot and wounded a driver while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat Thursday during a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx in New York City, because the agents believed their lives were in danger, federal
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — The Coachella Valley Firebirds are back on home ice Friday night for their third game of the season, welcoming the San Diego Gulls for the first meeting between the two teams this year. Coachella Valley enters the matchup with three points after earning a win and an overtime loss against
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LA QUINTA, Calif. (KESQ) – La Quinta High School has been named one of the Top 40 finalists in T-Mobile’s nationwide Friday Night 5G Lights competition, putting the school in the running for a $1 million football field renovation. The recognition comes after nearly 2,500 schools across the country participated in the program’s third year.
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CNN By Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A US congressional candidate in Arizona, Bernadette Greene-Placentia, says she was raped by two men while she was repairing one of her campaign signs. Greene-Placentia said it happened August 14 around 2 or 3 a.m. in the Phoenix suburb of Sun City, according to an incident report from
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Water bills are going up for Desert Water Agency customers starting January 1, 2027, and some Coachella Valley residents are already raising concerns about what another increase could mean for their household budgets. The agency says the upcoming rate adjustments will result in an average 6.25% increase, with the additional
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — A man who was previously identified in investigative documents but had not been charged in connection with a fatal e-bike crash in Desert Hot Springs was arrested Thursday after a warrant was issued in the case, authorities confirmed. Oscar Pinuelas was identified in California Highway Patrol investigative documents as
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