RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – Local journalists gathered under one roof Tuesday to celebrate great accomplishments in storytelling. The Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation Awards, honoring local reporters and journalists, were held at the Omni Rancho Mirage resort in Rancho Mirage. It’s the 3rd annual event that’s quickly become the organization’s most important fundraiser. “It’s our
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KESQ) – Saving at the gas pump. Some state lawmakers introduced a bill to temporarily suspend California’s gas tax. Local Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez was among those leading the effort during a news conference in Sacramento on Tuesday. Lawmakers calling for immediate relief, they say, as California drivers pay among the highest gas prices
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By CNN staff (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false or misleading claims in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Many of them were long-debunked falsehoods familiar from his rallies, interviews and social media posts. These include various lies disparaging the fairness of US elections, his false claim that he ended
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – For our final Celebrating Black History story, we’re spotlighting local artists who’ve made significant contributions to art and culture. Alvin Taylor, a Palm Springs native, is a world-renowned drummer known for his work with Elton John, George Harrison and Billy Preston. “When you are playing and you’re in the zone,
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By Ellis Kim and Sarah Ferris (CNN) — Rep. Al Green was escorted out of the House chamber just minutes into President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night for holding a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes!” “I wanted the president to see it, and he saw it, and I told
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CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (KESQ) – Concern grows over a water hazard next to Interstate 10. Water has collected in several retention basins between Date Palm and Bob Hope along the eastbound lanes of the 10. Water has pooled there after multiple recent storms. Over the weekend, a man was killed in a two-car crash after
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Originally Published: 24 FEB 26 22:45 ETBy Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term Tuesday night at the US Capitol. The speech comes shortly after the Supreme Court struck down his signature global tariffs, as he considers a second round of
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By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address to the 119th Congress Tuesday was a long one. With his 1 hour and 47 minute speech, Trump beat his own record for the longest annual address to Congress on record since at least 1964 — which he set last
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department may not search through the contents of several devices seized from a Washington Post reporter earlier this year as part of a probe into leaked classified documents, a federal judge said in a ruling Tuesday that was highly critical of the government’s approach in the case.
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By Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the massive trove of files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump
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By Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — It started as a viral snowball fight in a historic blizzard. It ended up putting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the opposite side of his city’s police, creating a politically sensitive moment early in his tenure. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday that largely dealt with
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – An elderly woman was rescued today after suffering a minor injury in a hard-to-reach area of Palm Desert, authorities said. The rescue was reported at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 47900 block of Portola Avenue, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The agency said a helicopter hoisted
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, who was ousted by Mayor Karen Bass in the aftermath of the deadly Palisades Fire, has sued the city over her termination, accusing the mayor of “orchestrating a campaign of retaliation” against her. In her Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed Friday, Crowley
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The San Diego City Attorney’s Office is suing The Campbell’s Company for allegedly misclassifying its workers in California as independent contractors, it was announced today. The lawsuit filed Monday in San Diego Superior Court claims Campbell’s and its subsidiaries — Snyder’s-Lance and Pepperidge Farm — should classify its distributors as
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The U.S. Department of Justice today sued the University of California, alleging it fostered a hostile work environment against Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff at UCLA in violation of federal law. According to the complaint, filed in Los Angeles federal court, acts of antisemitism permeated UCLA following the Hamas-led massacre
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By Valeria León, Michael Rios, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience looking for missing people in Mexico’s Sonora state has arrived in Arizona to help in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Initially, the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Searching Mothers of Sonora) applied for a permit to carry
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BIG BEAR, Calif. (KESQ) – Jackie the bald eagle has laid another egg up at the Big Bear nest on Tuesday. Jackie laid her fist egg of a second clutch shortly after 2:30 p.m., according to the Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit that operates the nest camera. The nonprofit later added that Jackie
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress tonight — and he warned that “it’s going to be a long speech.” Special coverage starts at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. These are four things to watch.
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CNN By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Top officials at FBI headquarters were tracking the outbreak of violence in Mexico on Sunday after its military killed a drug cartel boss when social media erupted with viral images of Director Kash Patel chugging beer in the locker room celebration of the Olympic gold medal-winning US men’s
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Three people were arrested and 26 others were cited during a DUI checkpoint in Indio, authorities said today. The checkpoint was held from 6 p.m. until midnight Monday at the intersection of Indio Boulevard and Oasis Street, according to the Indio Police Department. One person was arrested on suspicion of
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