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Firefighters mopping up after vegetation fire in Thermal blazes through 50 acres

THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – Firefighters are mopping up on Friday after a vegetation fire near Church Street in Thermal began just after 10:00 Thursday night. News Channel 3 had a crew on scene. CAL FIRE reports that the fire blazed through 50 acres, near La Familia High School and Coachella Valley Unified School District headquarters.

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Death of Osama bin Laden Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the death of Osama bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during an early morning raid at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Facts about the compound – Built in approximately 2006.– Significantly larger than other

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Mother and son who helped expose ‘extermination camp’ killed in Jalisco, Mexico

By Verónica Calderón and José Álvarez, CNN (CNN) — Two Mexican activists who publicized a grisly “extermination camp” linked to organized crime were killed on Wednesday in Jalisco, according to Mexican authorities and the advocacy organization they were affiliated with. The victims are María del Carmen Morales, 43, and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales,

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Trump backs down in legal fight over canceling international students’ status records for now

By Tierney Sneed, Gloria Pazmino and Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is backing down from a multi-state legal fight over sweeping actions taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement that potentially terminated the immigration status of thousands of international students studying in the United States. The dramatic shift was announced in court

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DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say

By Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources familiar with the plans tell CNN. The goal is to create a

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Jury in Karen Read’s murder trial visits the home where boyfriend and police officer John O’Keefe was found dead outside

By Jean Casarez and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The dense snow and blizzard-like conditions outside the Massachusetts home are gone. But the mystery of who may have killed Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on a frigid night in Canton lingers as jurors visited the house near where his body was found. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen

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Wisconsin judge arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly obstructing immigration agents

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Michael Williams and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Milwaukee County Circuit judge was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan is facing two charges for obstruction and concealing the individual from arrest. She made an initial appearance

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Why Trump’s Crimea proposal would tear down a decades-old pillar of the global order

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should recognize Russia’s control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed more than a decade ago, is threatening to upend international law and order. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has long made it clear this is a red line for him.

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5 things to know for April 25: Trump, India-Pakistan, DOJ grants, Jewish surveys, National Science Foundation

Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The National Weather Service says it will once again offer its forecasts and advisories in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Samoan. Such translations were paused earlier this month when the weather service’s contract with the AI company that provided them lapsed. Experts had expressed concern that the change would put

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