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By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave. “With regards
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The La Quinta community welcomed its newest Dunkin’ restaurant on Saturday morning. The company and city hosted a ribbon cutting at the new store, located at 79670 Hwy 111. The grand opening started at 9:00 a.m. The first 100 guests were surprised with with Free Coffee for a Year. The celebration also included the Dunkin’-branded prize wheel,
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — A day after signing steep new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, President Donald Trump acknowledged what economists, members of Congress and even some of his own aides — in their previous lives — have been saying all along: Americans may find themselves paying the costs.
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The 2025 Duel in the Desert Championship is back at the Palm Springs Convention Center for 2025. This Championship is the Grand Nationals produced by Varsity Spirit Sports. The competition runs from January 31st to February 2nd. The League by Varsity All Star is the official points system for the sport of all star cheerleading.
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Kimberly Richardson, CNN (CNN) — Today is that most sacred of American holidays. A day when people from all walks of life set aside their differences and focus their undivided attention on the prognostication abilities of a subterranean rodent. Yes, it’s Groundhog Day — and if you like the cold, you’re
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — When fire victims return home and find nothing but charred wreckage, many assume their irreplaceable belongings also perished. But Jeff Levy sees a chance to find their treasured keepsakes during their greatest time of need. Armed with metal detectors, a shovel, sifting screens and a 60-pound magnet, Levy has
Continue ReadingBy Maria Kostenko, Kostyantyn Hak, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mariya Knight and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency services said, one of many attacks across the country this weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia targeted the building
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of hitting America’s three biggest trading partners with sweeping tariffs, a far more aggressive use of his favorite economic weapon than anything he did during his first term. The looming import taxes on Mexico, Canada and China will
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump has quickly mobilized wide swaths of the federal government to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants in the United States, part of a broader strategy to amass a large enforcement machine. The administration has sent troops to the US-Mexico border, utilized military aircraft to repatriate recent
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Families were waiting at the airport to welcome home loved ones when their plane, just minutes from landing, collided midair with a military helicopter in a fiery explosion, plunging 67 lives full of promise into the cold, inky waters of the Potomac River. The frantic search for survivors started
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Rebecca Wright and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Could a ceasefire deal be a disaster for Ukraine in disguise? That is the urgent question echoing in Ukrainian frontline bunkers and in the ruins of besieged towns, where ubiquitous exhaustion begs for peace, but where a costly learned distrust of Russia
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Deadly floodwaters triggered by record rainfall in Australia’s northeast rose for a third day Monday as authorities warned flood-stricken communities to brace themselves for further destruction. One person drowned in the flooding on Sunday and thousands of residents in low-lying coastal suburbs and towns are under
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Today marks the first day of Black History Month. The Palm Springs Public Library teams up with Mizell Senior Center to present “Our Voices Our Stories: Celebrating Black Authors.” Fellow book lovers crowded the room to honor the work of various black authors. The event kicked off with actress and author Jenifer Lewis. She began
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north of Serbia, to its capital Belgrade, where he works as an economic historian. When he got to the station, he witnessed a scene of horror that
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Rebecca Wright and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Could a ceasefire deal be a disaster for Ukraine in disguise? That is the urgent question echoing in Ukrainian frontline bunkers and in the ruins of besieged towns, where ubiquitous exhaustion begs for peace, but where a costly learned distrust of Russia rules.
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane, Isaac Yee, Halim Surin Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — Millions dined in their restaurants worldwide, getting a taste of Malaysia supplied by a sprawling conglomerate that claimed to embrace Islamic values by caring for thousands of disadvantaged children they said were orphans in homes across the country. But the leaders of Global
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The American Airlines flight involved in the deadly collision with a Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, DC, seemed to increase its pitch just before the impact, preliminary data from a data recorder recovered from the plane shows. “At one point very close to the impact, there
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Waldenberg, Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced extraordinary new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China — signing the long-promised economic policy at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday. The Trump administration said tariffs are aimed at curbing the flow of drugs and undocumented immigrants into the
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s allies, including Vice President JD Vance, are making calls to shore up support for both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard following their confirmation hearings this week, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Kennedy, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September. An internal NTSB memo informed
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