A gang member who joined a teenage cohort in attempting to gun down a rival in a Cathedral City park — but wounded a young mother and a boy playing soccer instead — was sentenced today to 32 years to life in state prison. Ivan Raya Reynoso, 22, of Cathedral City was convicted in January
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News Channel 3 was tracking local reaction to the heated exchange between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. Democratic Congressman Raul Ruiz (CA-25) released a video statement Friday. He said, “Today, President Trump disgracefully bullied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, an ally of true Democracy, putting his allegiance with the communist dictator Vladimir Putin
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. “The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes,” Trump said in a statement. “They are
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By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — As consumers face skyrocketing egg prices, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports an increase of people attempting to smuggle eggs across the border from Mexico. The CBP’s San Diego Field Office reported Thursday seeing a 158% increase in egg interceptions since the fiscal year of 2024. A CBP
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Friends of the Desert Hot Springs Library book sale is offering a wide selection of books, CDs, and DVDs for purchase until Saturday, March 1. The sale is open to the public and runs from 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. at the Desert Hot Springs Library, located at 14-380 Palm Drive in Desert Hot Springs.
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Free dental, vision, and medical services are offered to the Coachella valley by California Careforce from February 28 – March 2, 2025 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. Gates open at 5:30 a.m. and the clinic opens at 7:00 a.m. Dentistry will include fillings, extractions, cleanings, x-rays, and limited number of dentures. The vision
Continue ReadingCNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office devolved into what Rubio described as a “fiasco,” while questioning whether the Ukrainian leader really wants peace in the country’s war with Russia. In
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office devolved into what Rubio described as a “fiasco,” while questioning whether the Ukrainian leader really wants peace in the country’s war with Russia. In an
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Calling its workforce “bloated,” the Social Security Administration announced Friday plans to slash about 7,000 jobs, or roughly 12% of its staff. The potential cuts are part of a larger reorganization at the agency in line with the Trump administration’s drive to downsize the federal government. The move comes
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last year, is attempting to throw out evidence taken from his backpack and other belongings collected during his arrest, arguing he was illegally stopped and searched by police. In a motion filed last week
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — During a remarkably combative Oval Office meeting on Friday, both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was insufficiently thankful. “You have to be thankful. You don’t have the cards,” Trump said, adding a bit later, “You gotta be more
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN Nur Shams, West Bank (CNN) — Fatima Tawfeeq, 63, has lived through numerous Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. She witnessed Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian territory in 1967 and lived through Israel’s crackdown during the first and second intifadas, the fierce Palestinian uprisings
Continue ReadingCNN By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero. “You know what I wish Zelensky would
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Kit Maher, CNN Washington (CNN) — A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office Friday as President Donald Trump berated his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinarily fractious display that only underscored the deeply uncertain future of American assistance to Kyiv. Never before has
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press (AP) — A jury found an Illinois landlord guilty of murder and hate crime charges Friday for a brutal 2023 attack on a Palestinian American family that killed a 6-year-old. Joseph Czuba, 73, was charged in the fatal stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen on
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — At least eight senior federal prosecutors who worked on the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot cases have been demoted to entry-level jobs, according to multiple sources and memos obtained by CNN. The unprecedented moves by Ed Martin, the acting US attorney
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, Sharon Braithwaite and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis is in stable condition and does not have a fever, the Vatican said on Sunday, days after he suffered from a sudden respiratory episode in hospital where he has been battling double pneumonia. While there are currently no direct impacts to
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — White House chefs were at work in the West Wing on Friday laying out plates of rosemary chicken, celery root puree and collard greens when the sound of raised voices began floating over from the Oval Office. Inside, a remarkable scene was unfolding.
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Kit Maher, CNN Washington (CNN) — A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office Friday as President Donald Trump berated his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinarily fractious display that only underscored the deeply uncertain future of American assistance to Kyiv. Never before has an
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-five people have been arrested in a global operation over AI-generated child sexual abuse material, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, in a statement Friday. Operation Cumberland, which was led by Danish law enforcement, is one of the world’s first cases involving this kind of child abuse
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