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By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court removed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday, ruling that her controversial phone call with Cambodia’s former leader breached ethics rules, in a move that plunges the kingdom into fresh political turmoil. Paetongtarn, a member of the powerful Shinawatra political family
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A woman was seriously injured in a bear attack just steps from her home in southern Alaska, a state where all three North American bear species roam and thrive. At 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, the 36-year-old woman left her house for a jog in Kenai, a coastal city southwest
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By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) — For a few hours, as she slept with her parents in their bed, Chloe Francoual’s mind told her that the bullets, the screams and the terror at Annunciation Catholic Church weren’t real, and she was able to sleep. But when she woke Thursday, two
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Indio police report that a motorcyclist died in a crash with an automobile at the intersection of Jackson Street and Avenue 41 on Thursday. Officers were called to the area at 9:43 p.m., and upon arrival, located a 34-year-old man who was the driver of the motorcycle. He was pronounced dead
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Seoul (Reuters) — Kim Keon Hee, the wife of South Korea’s ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, has been indicted for bribery and other charges, a special prosecution team said on Friday, amid a widening probe into the country’s martial law crisis and scandals involving the once powerful couple. Both Yoon and
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KESQ) – Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that California Highway Patrol crime suppression teams will be deployed to major cities and regions across the state — where they will work with local law enforcement agencies as part of ongoing efforts to reduce crime statewide. Newsom said the deployments are an expansion of CHP
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – Millions of Americans are expected to hit the road this Labor Day weekend, but the holiday continues to rank among the deadliest for car wrecks. So News Channel 3 wanted to know where in the Coachella Valley are you most likely to get into a crash, and what’s being done
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BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) – Banning law enforcement authorities announced they shut down an illicit gambling and drug sales operation at a smoke shop on Wednesday after receiving a tip from a citizen. The tip led officers to Vape Town on West Ramsey Street, where they launched an investigation, uncovering the suspected illegal gambling and unlicensed
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garica, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, are yet again asking the federal judge overseeing his human smuggling criminal case to order Trump administration officials to stop making negative comments about him that they say could jeopardize his right to a
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to review a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid, but it also allowed the nonprofits who are fighting that effort to continue their case in a lower court. At issue is billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected an effort from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to dismiss a lawsuit from 9/11 terror attack survivors and victims’ families alleging that the country assisted the hijackers in the lead up to the deadliest attack on US soil in
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. Since the start of 2025, Hanoi has been dredging and
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By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand Police have released CCTV footage believed to show a fugitive father who has been on the run with his three children in the remote wilderness for nearly four years. Thomas Callam Phillips has been hiding his children Jayda, Maverick and Ember, in the dense New Zealand bush
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway experiences a wide range of weather throughout the year, ranging from sun to snow to rain. News Channel 3’s First Alert Meteorologist Spencer Blum took a ride to the top to get a behind the scenes look at how the tram stays
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – The city of Indio is being recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Livable Small Cities in the United States, according to a study by SmartAsset. The study included 279 cities nationwide with populations between 65,00 and 100,000. Indio earned the #24 ranking, with a 1.1% unemployment rate – one
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) – Sixth-grade teacher Oracio Magaña of Valley View Elementary has been named the “One Class at a Time Teacher of the Month” by News Channel 3 and the Walter Clark Legal Group. Magaña is a Coachella Valley native. He was recognized for his work with KidWind, an after-school STEM program where students design
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – A roughly $400,000 project of installing 80 Level 2 electric vehicle chargers at a parking lot in Palm Springs International Airport was announced today. “Palm Springs International Airport is proud to meet the new standard for sustainability and convenience with the installation of 80 EV chargers right at the terminal,”
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – A Coachella Valley Unified School District teacher accused of inappropriately touching a student must stand trial for lewd acts on a minor and other offenses, a judge ruled today. Mario Manuel Valenzuela, 42, of Coachella, was arrested in February following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation. At the end of
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — After a grand jury failed to return a felony indictment against the Washington, DC, man accused of throwing a sub-style sandwich at a law enforcement officer in the first days of Trump’s federal takeover of the city, federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a lesser misdemeanor charge. Prosecutors filed the
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By José Álvarez, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A meeting of the Mexican Senate descended into violence Wednesday, after one of its members apparently became enraged at not getting a chance to speak. The scuffle broke out between two high-ranking senators toward the end of a session that had included a heated debate on the
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