By Laila Shahrokhshahi, Clare Sebastian, Lianne Kolirin, Laura Sharman, Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire outside a synagogue in a neighborhood home to London’s largest Jewish community early on Monday, in an antisemitic attack. Flames lit up the night sky and residents of
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A statue of Christopher Columbus has been erected outside of an ornate federal office building on the White House grounds — the latest sign of the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape cultural and historical representations across the nation’s capital. The installation of the statue — which is a
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – The Sunset Music and Education Foundation hosted their Constellation Awards Womyn’s History Month Brunch, honoring the work of female leaders in the Coachella Valley. “It gives us an opportunity to reset, to say this is what we’ve done in the past, but it’s not all about the past. It is
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By Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, speaking in JD Vance’s home state of Ohio on Saturday, tore into the vice president, questioning his Appalachian roots and telling voters they “deserve better.” The comments from Beshear — who is viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party and has been floated
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CNN By Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Sunday border czar Tom Homan will be in charge of deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports on Monday, with Homan telling CNN the agents will help with security at entrances and exits to ease the Transportation Security Administration’s workload. “This is about
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THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – Players, coaches, and families all gathered in support of the Coachella Valley Lady Arabs soccer season at a champions parade Saturday morning. The parade kicked off at 9:00 a.m. and made its way to Coachella Valley High School’s stadium for a ceremony, which wrapped up shortly after 11:00 a.m. It was
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By Tim Lister, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Russian forces have begun a spring offensive in eastern Ukraine, including the use of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, according to the Ukrainian military and analysts. The assault is gathering pace as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has a “very bad feeling” about the consequences
Continue Reading By Riane Lumer, Alison Main, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Immigration agents will deploy to airports on Monday under the direction of border czar Tom Homan, President Donald Trump said Sunday, as talks to fund the Department of Homeland Security have yet to yield a breakthrough. Trump first threatened Saturday that if lawmakers didn’t reach
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By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — “It’s disgusting,” says one woman in the ad. “Disqualifying,” says another. They’re shown reacting to old social media posts from Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate candidate who’s been endorsed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, in a new ad from his rival, Maine Gov. Janet Mills. The
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CNN By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The 18-year-old from Pennsylvania had just been arrested for allegedly attempting to detonate two bombs at a New York City protest when he arrived to the NYPD precinct on March 7. As laid out in a criminal complaint, Emir Balat waived his Miranda rights, took paper and pen, and
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A Supreme Court case examining state deadlines for election ballots sent in the mail is just the tip of the spear in President Donald Trump’s war on mail-in voting. Trump has never let go of his unfounded beliefs that voting by mail is rife with fraud, as he has
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By James Legge, CNN (CNN) — Iran has vowed a heavy retaliation if US President Donald Trump carries out a threat to bomb Iran’s power plants, with Tehran warning that critical infrastructure across the region may be “irreversibly destroyed.” Trump said he would order the bombardment if the Strait of Hormuz was not fully open
Continue Reading By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey and Cristopher Ulloa, CNN (CNN) — Tickets that go for $9,000 each; fans who plant trees so their idols can see them from their plane; devotees who listen for up to 11 hours a day. Few places have caught the K-pop bug as intensely as Latin America. After nearly a four-year break,
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – Months after Jake Haro was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of his 7-month-old son Emmanuel, attention has now shifted toward the next phase of the case: the upcoming trial of the child’s mother, Rebecca Haro, who has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to appear in
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By Max Saltman, Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Cuba is working to restore the electricity supply after another island-wide blackout left more than 10 million people without power. The electrical grid suffered “a total disconnection” on Saturday due to a problem at a thermoelectric plant in the province of Camagüey, which generated a cascading effect,
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s attempt to strike a US-UK base over 2,000 miles (over 3,000 kilometers) off its coast has renewed questions about Tehran’s military capabilities and how far its missiles can reach. On Friday morning local time, Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK
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By Alejandra Jaramillo, Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if an agreement isn’t reached to fund the Department of Homeland Security as Transportation Security Administration workers go without pay and travel disruptions mount. “If the Democrats do not
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CNN By Marshall Cohen, Kaanita Iyer, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the historic probe into alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, has died. He was 81. “With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away last night,” his family
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