Well, the idea that President Joe Biden would be pumped up with performance-enhancing drugs was soundly debunked during Thursday’s presidential debate. It was, for an 81-year-old incumbent president who needed to show people his age is not a factor, an unmitigated disaster. Biden seemed to lose his train of thought at one point early in […]
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Rancho Mirage Mayor Steve Downs says he has prostate cancer; prognosis is good
Rancho Mirage Mayor Steve Downs announced Thursday that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer, saying his prognosis is good and that he expects to soon return to work at city hall. Downs, a former planning commissioner who was appointed to the council in 2021 and elected to a four-year term in 2022, was absent from […]
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Los Angeles woman killed, driver sought after hit-and-run crash near El Mirage
Investigators are looking for a driver who ran away from the scene of a crash that left a 35-year-old Los Angeles woman dead near El Mirage late Sunday, officials said. Maria Franco died in the 10:30 p.m. collision along a dirt road near Avenue J and 255th Street East, in an unincorporated county area south […]
France to send Mirage jets to Ukraine – but are they worth the bother?
With advanced missiles and radar, capable of shooting down four aerial targets at once, the Mirage 2000 seems ideally suited to defend the skies over Ukraine. But taking on another Western jet could cause headaches for Kyiv, experts have warned after Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, announced he would start selling the jets to […]
Zelensky thanks France for promised delivery of Mirage fighter jets
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked France for promising to send Mirage fighter jets to his country, in a boost to Kiev’s efforts to protect its skies from Russia’s daily aerial assault. “Your fighter planes, your excellent fighter planes, piloted by Ukrainian pilots, prove that Europe is stronger, that Europe is stronger than the evil that […]
France to supply Mirage 2000-5 jets to Ukraine, train pilots
PARIS — France plans to supply Mirage 2000-5 jets to Ukraine and begin training pilots this summer, with the first training completed by the end of the year, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. France is building a coalition with other countries to provide the jets, similar to the coalition by several other European countries […]
Macron pledges Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron has promised Ukraine Mirage fighter jets, though he did not initially say how many. In a television interview in the northern city of Caen on Thursday evening, Macron said a coalition with partners was in the process of being formed to provide Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to the country defending itself […]
France to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, Macron says
PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations on Thursday. Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to France as part of D-Day anniversary celebrations, his government would announce it will provide the warplanes to Ukraine. He […]
Macron says France will provide Ukraine with Mirage combat aircraft
French President Emmanuel Macron has said France will provide Ukraine with its Mirage combat aircraft to be able to defend their country against Russian aggression. Mr Macron told a French public broadcaster he will announce on Friday a new co-operation with Ukraine and the sale of Mirage 2005, the French-made combat aircraft which will “allow […]
The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the ’90s, is closing
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort destination. The July 17 closure will clear the way for major renovations and construction on the 80-acre (32-hectare) […]
First homes at Disney-backed Cotino in Rancho Mirage could be ready by January
One of the first structures at Cotino in Rancho Mirage, seen Friday, May 3, 2024. Cotino — the Disney-branded development in Rancho Mirage that will feature hundreds of homes, a swimmable lagoon and more — is gradually emerging on a sprawling swath of land off Bob Hope Drive. And to fund the sewer and water pipes, street […]