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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – A longtime local government administrator has been appointed Indio’s new assistant city manager and will begin work Oct. 5, city officials announced Monday. Maria Aliotti, who has more than three decades of experience in local government, was selected following a recruitment process that drew 111 applicants, according to the city. “As
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WHITEWATER, Calif. (KESQ) – One person was killed today when a vehicle went down an embankment near Whitewater. The incident was reported shortly before 2 p.m. Monday near eastbound Interstate 10 and state Route 62, according to the California Highway Patrol. Emergency crews responded to a reported medical emergency, and an occupant of the
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PALM SPRINGS, CA — The Palm Springs Police Department (PSPD) is alerting residents and businesses to a nationwide phishing scam involving criminals impersonating city and county planning and zoning officials to solicit fraudulent permit payments. Scammers are targeting individuals and businesses with active land-use permit applications. Using publicly available information, they send convincing emails containing
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! An 11-year-old British girl just became the youngest female chess grandmaster of all time. She says she started playing during the pandemic and wants to “keep making history.” Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Unprecedented test flight
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he did not discuss the US selling weapons to China during his recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, contradicting an assertion made by the US ambassador to China a day earlier. US Ambassador to China David Perdue had told Fox News Sunday
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Facing abysmal poll numbers on inflation as the midterm elections approach, President Donald Trump is sticking to the communications strategy he tried in the summer: lie. Trump has tried for months to concoct an alternate reality in which the country has experienced broad deflation during this presidency, with prices
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By Nicki Brown, Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The prosecution and defense rested Monday in the murder trial of Caleb Flynn, the former “American Idol” contestant accused of killing his wife and staging the crime scene. The prosecution called 40 witnesses over seven days of testimony, while the defense did not call any witnesses. Closing
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. Personal:Birth date: October 13, 1925 Death date: April 8, 2013 Birth place: Grantham, Lincolnshire, England Birth name: Margaret Hilda Roberts Father: Alfred Roberts, grocer Mother: Beatrice Ethel (Stephenson) Roberts, grocer Marriage:
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a Washington Post columnist, was critical of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. He was allegedly killed and dismembered on October 2, 2018, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by men with close ties to the highest levels of the Saudi
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmental groups that argued he was compromised by his financial holdings in the oil and gas industry. In
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By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Angela Paxton, who is divorcing Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, posted a video Monday of recent remarks urging Republican women to support GOP candidates in Texas this fall even if they have reservations about them. In the speech, titled “The Elephant in the Room,” Angela Paxton, a Texas
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By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Bailey, a senior FBI official and former Republican politician, told the agency’s workforce early Monday that he is resigning to spend more time with his family, two sources familiar told CNN. Bailey served as Missouri’s attorney general before being hired by the FBI last year in an unusual
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) — Riverside County is bringing financial assistance resources directly to College of the Desert’s Indio campus as students and families continue to face rising living costs. The Riverside County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) is hosting an outreach event Monday, September 28, from noon to 2 p.m., connecting residents with information
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By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds as part of a final deal, but only if Tehran offers “concrete progress” on the nuclear issue, a US official told CNN Monday, as mediators try to bring both countries back to the
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to allow federal prison officials to deny certain types of medical care for transgender inmates, such as surgeries – putting another culture war issue on the high court’s burgeoning fast-track docket. The Bureau of Prisons policy that began early
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN Metz, France (CNN) — France may have a highly secularized culture, but it has given Pope Leo XIV a superstar welcome. In Paris, around 800,000 lined the Champs-Élysées avenue, some waving Vatican or French flags while others climbed trees or stood on each other’s shoulders to get a glimpse of the
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CNN By Nic Robertson, Tim Lister and James Frater CNN Fairford, England (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “the hands of a foreign actor” were involved in the suspected terror plot targeting a UK airbase used by the US military, revealing more about the investigation than British authorities – who have faced
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By Hanna Park, Danya Gainor, Holly Yan, Cindy Von Quednow, Gloria Pazmino, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in New York are reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student after the woman filed a civil lawsuit this month claiming the school did not do enough to protect her.
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By Gloria Pazmino, CNN With her supporters and critics alike debating what she’ll do next, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s multi-day swing to parts of New York State hundreds of miles from her district gave some clues of what a potential statewide run – or a national one – might look like. There were meetings with local
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By Tal Shalev, Tim Lister, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed new Israeli intelligence indicating Iran is resuming progress on its nuclear program during a visit to the country on Sunday, an Israeli source with knowledge of the meeting told CNN. Among the information shared
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