By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of staffers at the Department of Homeland Security are still working without pay during the record partial government shutdown after President Donald Trump ordered the agency to compensate Transportation Security Administration employees. Are you a DHS employee who still hasn’t seen a paycheck? Share how the
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Thieves in Europe have been busy. Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse were stolen from an Italian museum in a bold heist that took just three minutes. In another incident, a seemingly hungry crew pilfered 12 tons of KitKat bars. Here’s what else you might
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, is scheduled to launch Wednesday afternoon, with a Southern California native serving as the spacecraft’s pilot. The mission is set to lift off at 3:24 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – With the first ticket sales of the Olympic Games about to begin, LA28 today announced details of its ticket resale program. LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Games, said it will be offering verified resale tickets starting in 2027 through its official “Secondary Ticket Marketplace,” with the help from
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Palm Springs residents and community members will be able to tour Fire Station No. 1 today and share feedback on the station’s proposed modernization. An open house will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday at 277 N. Indian Canyon Drive. The public will be able to meet Fire
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – A series of four films starring Marilyn Monroe will be screened later this year at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs as part of a centennial celebration honoring the Hollywood icon, officials announced today. The Plaza Theatre Foundation and the Film Society of Screwball Comedy will present “Marilyn 100: A
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By Cindy Von Quednow, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The attack earlier this month on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was “a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism purposely targeting the Jewish community and the largest Jewish temple in Michigan,” the FBI said in a news conference Monday. The assailant, Ayman Ghazali, a naturalized US citizen
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A former federal immigration prosecutor and whistleblower who has taken issue with Trump administration leadership has now gone to Capitol Hill, saying the internal watchdog offices of the Justice Department are doing nothing to investigate his and other complaints. Lawyers for Erez Reuveni, who was fired last year after
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands more Department of Homeland Security workers are now being paid during the record partial government shutdown after President Donald Trump ordered the agency to send Transportation Security Administration employees their back pay. But tens of thousands of other DHS staffers — including Federal Emergency Management Agency
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain lucrative bets placed on prediction markets have violated insider trading and other laws, multiple sources told CNN. The chiefs of the securities and commodities fraud unit of the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York recently met with
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at one of the most successful golfers in history, Tiger Woods. Personal Birth date: December 30, 1975 Birth place: Cypress, California Birth name: Eldrick Tont Woods Father: Earl Woods Mother: Kultilda (Punsawad) Woods Marriage: Elin Nordegren (October 5, 2004-August 23, 2010, divorced) Children: Charlie Axel and Sam
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As the Supreme Court considers the future of birthright citizenship, some advocates fighting President Donald Trump are speaking directly to conservative justices on how fundamental one’s faith can be to identity and citizenship. Several groups that have filed briefs in the case to be argued Wednesday
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By Tim Lister, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — One month into an expanding conflict in the Middle East, an increasing amount of civilian infrastructure is being struck – frequently by design. Factories producing steel, aluminum and chemicals; refineries; reservoirs; desalination plants; civilian airports and universities have all been hit. A few such targets might be
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Thieves have stolen more than 400,000 KitKat chocolate bars weighing around 12 tons from a truck in Europe. The confectionery, which is manufactured by Swiss firm Nestle, was stolen when the vehicle was distributing the bars along a route running from a factory in central Italy to Poland, KitKat
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Miles de personas se reunieron en Palm Springs el sábado pasado como parte de un movimiento de protesta llamado “No Reyes”. Alrededor de 6,500 personas llenaron las calles cerca del City Hall para llamar la atención de los automovilistas que pasaban con pancartas que tenían mensajes sobre la guerra, el precio de la gasolina y
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By Holly Yan, Tami Luhby, Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — Abysmal wait times at airports dwindled Monday as Transportation Security Administration workers got their first paychecks in more than a month — apparently prompting fewer agents to call out. Four-hour wait times that plagued some airports last week dropped to mere minutes as some TSA
Continue Reading CNN By Holly Yan, Chris Youd, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Abysmal wait times at airports started to ease Monday morning as tens of thousands of Transportation Security Administration workers began receiving back pay after more than a month without a paycheck. Some TSA employees started seeing part of their overdue income hit their bank
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Jean Fujiu’s choice to attend a “No Kings” rally in Chicago stemmed from her own family’s experience of injustice: Her parents were incarcerated in prison camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World War II. “I grew up with this legacy for social justice, both my father and my
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Isaac Yee, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — The destruction of a US Air Force E-3 Sentry aircraft in an Iranian strike on a Saudi Arabia air base could damage US abilities to spot incoming Iranian threats at distance, analysts say. Dramatic images of the wrecked aircraft, geolocated by CNN, show its tail
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – It’s a new push to tackle traffic gridlock across the Coachella Valley. A petition is calling for changes along Interstate 10, near Jefferson Street. petition.pdgDownload Ashley Pena, petition creator, said her effort focuses on one of the busiest stretches for drivers, the Jefferson Street interchange. “I am a commercial driver for AutoZone.
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