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"Are you Joe Biden?" a bewildered Jackson Elementary student asked, eyes wide, as a politician in an American flag mask, black tie and perfectly polished black shoes toured her school Wednesday, a posse of staffers, school employees and camera crews behind him.
"No, I'm not," said U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz, chuckling.
Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, was visiting the school in Indio to check up on howfunds from the $1.9 billion American Rescue Plan, one of President Biden's early pieces of legislation that Ruiz supported, are being spent in his district.
With just a week left until Election Day in the attempt to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, more than a quarter of registered voters in Riverside County have returned their ballots, with initial data showing that Republicans will need to pick up the pace to oust the Democratic governor.
As of Monday, 25.8% of the roughly 1.3 million ballots sent to registered Riverside County voters had been returned, according to the California Secretary of State's office.
Four MMA cage fighters from Desert Hot Springs are at the top of their sport and recently traveled internationally to compete in world championships, and now they're being honored by Congressman Raul Ruiz (D) 36th District.
"My hat's off to them, today we're gonna salute them and I want everybody to know their names because this is an incredible accomplishment that they've done at such an early age."
La Quinta resident James Bailey spent 5 years in Afghanistan protecting American diplomats for the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2014.
Speaking exclusively to News Channel 3's Jake Ingrassia, he said Thursday's deadly ISIS suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 Marines was a preventable tragedy.
"I'm still trying to process everything that's happened," Bailey said. "It's been a crazy, crazy week for me. I think it's been a crazy week for our country."
A handful of high school mixed martial artists were honored on Thursday for their recent success at the 2021 IMMAF Youth MMA World Championships.
Special moment here in Desert Hot Springs, Congressman Raul Ruiz honoring MMA standouts after bringing home medals from an overseas competition. We'll have more tonight on @KESQ @BlakeArthur24 pic.twitter.com/rQSKgpykeJ
— Bailey Arredondo (@baileyarredondo) August 26, 2021
Hannah Wagstaff, Irann Orozco, Allison Keenan and Andrea Frisque were the four local athletes to compete overseas and bring home some hardware.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is calling on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to rename Fort Hood after Gen. Richard Cavazos, the Army's first Hispanic four-star general.
In a letter to Austin on Monday, the CHC's leadership outlined Cavazos's military accomplishments, and provided alternate options to rename the Texas military base.
Cavazos, who became the Army's first Hispanic brigadier general in 1976 and first four-star in 1982, was a Mexican American who led the mostly Puerto Rican "Borinqueneers" in the Korean War and later fought in the Vietnam War.
The first time ProPublica traveled to Thermal, California, in June 2020, the temperature happened to be 114 degrees, and we felt stupefied, literally unable to think. Everyplace, here in the eastern Coachella Valley, looked gorgeous … for 20 minutes at dusk. Nothing was beautiful at midday. The difference between the watered and unwatered fields was disorienting. Standing in the sun among green growing things and standing alone on the gray parched earth felt like the difference between hope and despondence, even terror; between vibrancy and doom.
Nearly $19 million in American Rescue Plan Funds have been distributed to theater venues and small businesses in the Coachella Valley area, it was announced Thursday.
Theaters and event sites in the 36th District of California were among 28 venues that received a portion of the nearly $19 million, Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Coachella, said.
At least nine local entertainment venues impacted by shutdowns last year due to COVID-19 received American Rescue Plan funds as part of the Shuttered Venue Operator Grant program.
According to a statement released Thursday by U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, the venues include Desert Theatreworks in Indio, the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, Mary Pickford is D'Place in Cathedral City, the Fox Cineplex is D'Place in Banning and the Palm Springs Air Museum.
July wrapped a busy month of wins for the Blythe constituency, with California 36th District Congress Rep. Dr. Raul Ruiz further securing $1.85 million in Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriation bills toward area projects.