THOUSAND PALMS, California (KESQ) Authorities are investigating two separate armed robberies involving U.S. Postal Service mail carriers in Cathedral City and Palm Desert over the past several days. The first incident occurred Saturday in Cathedral City. Officers with the Cathedral City Police Department responded to a report of a robbery involving a mail carrier who
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CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (KESQ) – 1/3 of Riverside County’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force teams victims are juveniles, according to Sergeant Jeff Hammond. It’s why the task force is partnering with the Palm Springs Unified School District Family Engagement Center to educate students about human trafficking. PSUSD is holding a free film screening and panel discussion
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CNN By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump not only stood by his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday, amid fever-pitch conversations about Mike Waltz’s fate in the wake of an extraordinary security breach; he invited him for a seat at the table in the Cabinet Room
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – In 2022, 30.7% of US high school 12th graders reported using cannabis in the past year, and 6.3% reported using cannabis daily in the past 30 days. In the Coachella Valley, it’s an issue local law enforcement are seeing as well. “One of the things with us having cannabis shops
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By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump not only stood by his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday, amid fever-pitch conversations about Mike Waltz’s fate in the wake of an extraordinary security breach; he invited him for a seat at the table in the Cabinet Room to
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Desert Hot Springs City officials were on hand Tuesday to break ground for the new Desert Hot Springs Police Department annex project. The new development will be on Pierson Boulevard near the existing Desert Hot Springs Police Station, and will include locker rooms and work spaces for police detectives
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By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for a Cornell graduate student whose student visa was recently revoked and has been targeted for deportation by the Trump administration said the case will be a test to determine whether the US government can target people for expressing views that are critical of the government. Attorneys for
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CNN By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Several top Trump administration officials are facing scrutiny for sending detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen to a group chat on a messaging app that inadvertently included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. The mistake
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CNN, POOL, FOX, MSNBC By Tierney Sneed and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don’t have easy access to citizenship documents like passports or birth certificates. Republican state
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don’t have easy access to citizenship documents like passports or birth certificates. Republican state lawmakers have long sought
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — There are a lot of changes underway at the Social Security Administration. The agency’s staff is being cut and local offices may be closed, but more people will have to go to offices to apply for benefits or switch their bank accounts if they can’t verify their identity online.
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced today his office will seek the death penalty only in exceedingly rare cases, rescinding a directive by his predecessor that barred prosecutors from seeking capital punishment against defendants charged with special circumstance murders. “I remain unwaveringly committed to the comprehensive and thorough evaluation
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By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Randy Weber on Wednesday introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Jasmine Crockett over recent comments the Democratic congresswoman made about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, according to a draft of the resolution shared with CNN and the congressman’s office. Weber is seeking the punishment in response to Crockett
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday declassified a host of materials from the FBI’s 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, the latest instance of Trump using the power of his office to relitigate his past political grievances. In signing the executive action, Trump completed a process he started
Continue ReadingBy Jimena De La Quintana and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has called for general elections to be held on April 12, 2026, saying she hopes the call can “put an end to a period of instability” that the country has experienced in recent years. “We hope for the good of
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — A fight is breaking out among House Republicans over whether to allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely — a politically explosive issue that is gaining traction in the chamber at a critical time for Speaker Mike Johnson. A group of GOP hardliners from the House Freedom Caucus
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By Yong Xiong, Nectar Gan and Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong/Taipei (CNN) — From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea cables at record depths, China’s latest maritime innovations have captured the attention of defense experts – fueling concerns about their
Continue ReadingCarolina Garcia BRAWLEY, Calif. (T3) – Son cerca de 300 las y los estudiantes que son parte del equipo de futbol y porristas en Brawley y que de no tener recursos economicos, suspenderan sus actividades. Actualmente deben cubrir una cuota de inscripción de 450 dólares, lo que para muchos es imposible de pagar, una empresa
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the troubled Social Security Administration told senators Tuesday that he would swiftly improve the agency’s customer service and slash its payment error rate, all while protecting Americans’ personal information. The bold promises, including a pledge to dramatically cut telephone answer wait times, come
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