It’s the second to final week of the regular season for high school football. Game of the Week La Quinta: 14(5-4) / DEL: 2-2@Rancho Mirage: 27(6-2) / DEL: 4-0F The undefeated Rancho Mirage Rattlers clinched their league title with their win over La Quinta. It's official! With tonight's 27 -14 win over La Quinta the
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s thrice-elected jubilant former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned home on a chartered plane from Dubai. His arrival in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday ended four years of self-imposed exile in London following his conviction on corruption charges. Days ago, a Pakistani federal court granted him
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Palestinian militants traded fire after Hamas released an American woman and her teenage daughter. They were the first of some 200 captives to be freed after the militant group’s Oct. 7 rampage into Israel. Meanwhile, there were indications that the
Continue ReadingWHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) — With the release earlier this year of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the southern New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. Trinity Site is usually closed to the public because of its proximity to
Continue ReadingA couple of late comebacks made Friday the most dramatic night of baseball’s postseason so far. Jose Altuve hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning and the Houston Astros, following another bench-clearing scuffle with the rival Texas Rangers, rallied for a wild 5-4 victory in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series. A few
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The San Andreas Fault gets a lot of attention, but it’s not the only fault that could have a big impact on the Coachella Valley. Looking at the Community Fault Model by the Southern California Earthquake Center, there are roughly 26 fault zones from I-40 in San Bernardino County, to the Mexico border, and west
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has successfully carried out the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025. The space agency says the test involved launching a module to outer space and bringing
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“Typically when people are suffering from food insecurity they are also suffering from other things as well, said Debbie Espinosa, CEO of the FIND Food Bank. Espinosa has shared her personal experiences with food insecurities. Now – it’s a cancer journey – that’s inspiring her to help the community in a different way. “For me,
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE RANTZ Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Veronica Latsko scored in the 87th minute to give OL Reign a 1-0 victory over Angel City on Friday night in the opening round of the National Women’s Soccer League playoffs. Phoebe McClernon whipped a cross into the box and Latsko beat her defender to score from
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Abeer Salman, Asmaa Khalil and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Gaza and Rafah (CNN) — The first trucks carrying aid entered Gaza on Saturday, but international leaders have warned that much more is needed to combat the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in the enclave that holds more than 2 million people. The admission of trucks
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessie Yeung, Abeer Salman, Asmaa Khalil and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Gaza and Rafah (CNN) — The first trucks carrying aid entered Gaza on Saturday, but international leaders have warned that much more is needed to combat the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in the enclave that holds more than 2 million people. The admission of
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessie Yeung, Abeer Salman, Asmaa Khalil and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Gaza and Rafah (CNN) — The first trucks carrying aid entered Gaza on Saturday, but international leaders have warned that much more is needed to combat the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in the enclave that holds more than 2 million people. The admission of
Continue ReadingCNN By Jessie Yeung, Abeer Salman, Asmaa Khalil and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Gaza and Rafah (CNN) — The first trucks carrying aid entered Gaza on Saturday, but international leaders have warned that much more is needed to combat the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in the enclave that holds more than 2 million people. The admission of
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Adi Kopelwitz, CNN Haifa and Jerusalem (CNN) — When 20-year-old Aya Najame, an Arab Muslim, was a little girl growing up in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, she would go on cultural exchange trips to Jewish schools to learn about the Jewish way of life. Jewish children would do
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Editor’s Note: This story first moved Oct. 21. The Associated Press has now published an updated visual analysis of the Oct. 17 explosion at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital. The AP initially assessed that the explosion was likely caused by a rocket launched from within Gaza that misfired, and that assessment has
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — It was a bad place to keep a secret. When Republicans gathered on Dec. 14, 2020, claiming to be legitimate electors casting the state’s 16 electoral votes for Donald Trump, they met at the Georgia Capitol in a room just upstairs from the building’s public entrance. A
Continue ReadingBy IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ and FERNANDO LLANO Associated Press CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts rushed to prepare as Hurricane Norma headed toward the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula for an expected landfall Saturday, while in the Atlantic, Hurricane Tammy threatened to batter the islands of the Lesser
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — Josselyz Essa and a friend, two 9-year-olds with a budding interest in politics as Venezuela starts toward its next presidential election, bubbled with eagerness waiting for the campaign rally to start. Then a thunderous noise spread over the crowd in the streets of the northern
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters cast ballots this weekend to elect a parliament at a time when key concerns include rising health care costs, concerns about inflows of migrants and global warming, which has battered the country’s Alpine glaciers. Among the main stakes if pollsters turn out to be right
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Charles Nahale spent a restless night trying to sleep in the back seat of his pickup truck after a wildfire destroyed his home and the town of Lahaina. The next two nights weren’t much better: The singer and guitarist put his feet on one chair and
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