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Shadow Hills High School Choir steps into the spotlight with legendary band Foreigner

Theย Shadow Hillsย High School Choir joins Foreigner onstage Saturday at the band’s Fantasy Springs Resort Casinoย concert. The choir will accompany Foreigner to sing the classic hit,ย “I Want to Know What Love Is.” ย  The legendary rock band has teamed with high schools around the country to perform its signature 1984 power ballad during tour stops. The

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Find Food Bank opens new regional warehouse to expand services and combat hunger

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) — The Find Regional Food Bank has officially opened a new warehouse, marking a major milestone in its mission to end hunger in the Coachella Valley. The facility will allow the organization to expand its food distribution, provide educational programs, and support workforce development initiatives for the community. Bill Sanchez, president and

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DOJ agents will be deployed to ICE facilities to protect federal agents, Bondi says

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday she is deploying agents from the Justice Department to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and facilities. โ€œAt my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilitiesโ€”and wherever ICE comes under siegeโ€”to safeguard federal agents, protect

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Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation's 2024 Democracy Forum in December 2024 in Chicago

Obama says thereโ€™s no โ€˜military rationaleโ€™ for Israelโ€™s offensive in Gaza

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Friday criticized Israelโ€™s ongoing military action in Gaza, saying that โ€œthereโ€™s not a military rationale for continuing to pummel what is already rubbleโ€ and arguing for Palestinian statehood. โ€œI think that it is important for us to acknowledge those of us who are not

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From Michoacรกn to the Coachella Valley: Alexandra Ramirezโ€™s Journey of Strength and Service

Palm Desert, Calif. (KESQ) — This Hispanic Heritage month, here at News Channel 3, we are telling โ€œStories that Inspire.โ€ We meet a young migrant from Michoacรกn, Mexico. Her name is Alexandra Ramirez, who owns a gym called “The Camp Transformation Center” in Palm Desert. A native of Pรกtzcuaro, Michoacรกn, Mexico, and like many immigrants,

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What Riverside County youth services say about missing teens as the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case unfolds

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) A verified GoFundMe is now helping the family of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the Riverside County teen found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard earlier this month. The fundraiser lists Esmeralda Lozano as the organizer on behalf of the Rivas Hernandez family, and GoFundMe confirmed to News

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I tracked down Tupacโ€™s godmother Assata Shakur, the FBIโ€™s most wanted in Cuba, as a CNN intern. It was surprisingly easy

Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly a seminal moment for Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member (perhaps now

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Truck drivers from outside the US face new license restrictions as DOT threatens to withhold money from California

By Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to โ€œdrastically restrictโ€ people from outside the United States from getting commercial driverโ€™s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funds from states that donโ€™t agree to comply. โ€œThe process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,โ€ Transportation Secretary Sean

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Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas Wednesday.

After a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, immigrants are still showing up, now fearing both deportation and violence

WFAA, KTVT, CNN By Alaa Elassar, Gustavo Valdรฉs, CNN (CNN) — When people arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas early Wednesday morning for routine appointments, they were instead thrust into chaos as an ordinary day turned into a life-threatening nightmare. Sharp cracks of gunfire pierced the morning air, loud, jarring pangs

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