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Weather cancels some events at CC Hot Air Balloon Festival including Robin Thicke concert

CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (KESQ) – Robin Thicke’s concert at the Cathedral City International Hot Air Balloon Festival has been canceled, as well as Friday programming and the Saturday morning launch due to weather concerns. Festival organizers said the decision was made out of an abundance of caution for the safety of attendees, balloon pilots,  crews, and

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach

Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, Arlette Saenz, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders should be put to death, sparking an outcry among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the president was seeking to incite violence. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach

Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, Arlette Saenz, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders should be put to death, sparking an outcry among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the president was seeking to incite violence. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable

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The National Christian Church in the central business district in Abuja

Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians

By Haley Britzky, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Nigerian officials are meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau this week amid increasing focus from the Trump administration on Christians in Nigeria and as President Donald Trump has floated potential US military action in the country. Trump said earlier this

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A photo of late actor Chadwick Boseman is set on an easel ahead of the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Chadwick Boseman honored with posthumous star on Hollywood Walk of Fame: ‘He was an incredible leader’

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Friends, family and fans gathered Thursday to honor the late Chadwick Boseman receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Thursday was declared “Chadwick Boseman Day” in Hollywood, and his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” costar Viola Davis, his “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio

State Department to identify DEI policies and mass migration as ‘human rights infringements’

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will require its diplomats describe enforcement of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, alleged facilitation of mass migration, and government funding that supports abortion medications as “human rights infringements” in its next human rights report, a senior State Department official said Thursday, as the Trump

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Israeli settlers set fire to multiple cars in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

Israeli settlers torch scrapyard in West Bank arson attack as Netanyahu calls meeting on rising extremist violence

By Zeena Saifi, Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers set fire to cars in the latest arson in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a security meeting on settler violence. According to witnesses and WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, settlers torched a vehicle scrapyard in

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Offshore oil and gas platform Esther is seen from Seal Beach

Trump opens parts of Florida, California waters up to offshore oil drilling, breaking decades of precedent

By Ella Nilsen, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is proposing to open federal waters off the entire coastline of California to drilling, as well as an area off the coast of Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades. President Donald Trump’s Interior Department released a five-year offshore

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Justice Department is investigating handling of Adam Schiff mortgage fraud probe led by Ed Martin

Justice Department is investigating handling of Adam Schiff mortgage fraud probe led by Ed Martin and Bill Pulte

By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is investigating whether people impersonated federal agents in mortgage fraud probes of prominent Democrats, a development that could complicate efforts to prosecute political enemies of President Donald Trump, people briefed on the matter told CNN. The new probe led by

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The Washington Monument is visible as armed members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall on August 27 in Washington

Judge halts Trump’s deployment of national guard in Washington, DC

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and the Defense Department illegally deployed the National Guard in Washington, DC, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Washington, DC’s attorney general’s office had sued the Trump administration in early September over the National Guard’s deployment in the city, which came as Trump surged federal law enforcement

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