SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A female driver died after rolling a Mazda CX-5 down an embankment off Figueroa Mountain Road late Saturday evening.

Her identity is pending notification of her next of kin shared the California Highway Patrol-Buellton Area.

On April 11, around 11:23 p.m., dispatchers received a crash notification on Figueroa Mountain Road and officers were sent to the scene stated a press release Monday from the California Highway Patrol-Buellton Area (CHP).

Arriving officers spotted a Mazda CX-5 on its wheels and down an embankment on the westside of Figueroa Mountain Road noted the CHP.

According to the CHP, a single female occupant was located inside of the vehicle and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

This fatal crash is under investigation and anyone with more information is asked to contact the Buellton Area CHP Office at 805-691-6160.

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Por Clare Foran, CNN

La Comisión de Ética de la Cámara anunció este lunes que ha abierto una investigación sobre acusaciones de conducta inapropiada contra el representante Eric Swalwell.

La noticia llega mientras el demócrata de California está bajo un escrutinio cada vez mayor después de que CNN y el San Francisco Chronicle informaran que una exempleada lo acusó de agresión sexual, describiendo una noche de copas que terminó con Swalwell teniendo relaciones sexuales con ella cuando ella no podía consentir. Swalwell, quien este fin de semana suspendió su campaña para gobernador de California, enfrenta llamados para su expulsión del Congreso.

La comisión dijo en un comunicado que ha abierto una investigación sobre acusaciones de que Swalwell “violó el Código de Conducta Oficial o cualquier ley, norma, reglamento u otro estándar de conducta aplicable en el desempeño de sus deberes o el cumplimiento de sus responsabilidades, con respecto a acusaciones de que pudo haber incurrido en conducta sexual inapropiada, incluso hacia una empleada que trabajaba bajo su supervisión”.

El panel afirmó que “el mero hecho de que esté investigando estas acusaciones y divulgando públicamente su revisión no indica por sí mismo que haya ocurrido alguna violación”.

Además de la acusación de agresión sexual, otras tres mujeres que hablaron con CNN alegaron conducta sexual inapropiada por parte de Swalwell, incluido el envío de mensajes explícitos y fotografías no solicitadas de desnudos.

Swalwell ha negado enérgica y repetidamente las acusaciones de agresión sexual.

“A mi familia, personal, amigos y simpatizantes, lamento profundamente los errores de juicio que he cometido en mi pasado”, publicó el domingo en X en su anuncio de suspensión de su campaña. “Lucharé contra las graves y falsas acusaciones que se han hecho, pero esa es mi lucha, no la de una campaña”.

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By Whitney Wild, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN

(CNN) — Officials in Ramsey County, Minnesota, on Monday announced a criminal investigation into the arrest of ChongLy Thao, a US citizen caught in a viral photo as immigration agents walked him out of his home in freezing weather wearing little more than Crocs, shorts, and a plaid blanket.

The incident, which shocked residents in the Twin Cities area, “involves a felonious allegation of kidnapping, illegal detainment, false imprisonment,” Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a news conference.

“We believe there was no legitimate legal reason for the federal agents to enter that home, it was not supported by probable cause,” Choi said.

CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.

The county attorney said Thao was forcibly removed from his home and taken out in freezing weather while wearing little clothing. He was questioned in the car away from his home for more than an hour, Choi said.

Agents eventually realized Thao was a US citizen with no criminal record and returned him to his home after a couple of hours, Thao said in an interview with The Associated Press in January.

DHS had said the ICE officers had been seeking two convicted sex offenders. But Thao told the AP he had never seen the two men before and that they did not live with him.

“We think we have much of the facts but there’s still more facts that we need,” he said, calling on the federal government to share evidence his office has requested.

Choi said he sent a letter to the federal government – known as a Touhy request – demanding any evidence used to justify Thao’s arrest during the operation.

Thao was detained as protesters clashed with federal agents during Operation Metro Surge, the monthslong immigration enforcement crackdown that roiled Minnesota.

Choi said multiple people have made reports with his office regarding federal agents’ actions, and said they need federal cooperation to fully investigate.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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By Adam Cancryn, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump is backing away from a social media post depicting himself as Jesus — but not from the broader war of words he’s still waging against Pope Leo XIV.

Trump on Monday deleted an image of him as Jesus from his Truth Social account amid intense backlash, telling reporters that he thought it was meant to portray him as a doctor.

“I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross,” he said outside the West Wing. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better.”

Yet pressed on whether he also disavowed a separate post in which he slammed the pope as “WEAK on Crime” and accused him of “catering to the Radical Left,” Trump stood his ground.

“Pope Leo said things that are wrong,” Trump said, adding that he wouldn’t apologize for his social media post. “We believe strongly in law and order, and he seemed to have a problem with that, so there’s nothing to apologize for.”

The pope first earned Trump’s ire last year over comments seen as critical of the administration’s mass deportation policies. Leo has since clashed with Trump over the US and Israel’s war with Iran, urging the sides to seek a peaceful resolution and then more explicitly rejecting the president’s threats to wipe out “a whole civilization” if Tehran didn’t bend to his demands.

Trump’s tensions with the papacy come despite the president surrounding himself with several prominent Catholics, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and first lady Melania Trump. Vance and Rubio met with the pope last year but have not taken any public steps to ease relations between Trump and the Vatican in recent days.

Still, Trump appeared to realize that the depiction of him as Jesus — which he first posted Sunday — went too far. The image showing him in white and red robes and composed in the style of religious art prompted criticism from several Republicans and conservative commentators who saw it as anti-Christian.

“I cannot understand why he’d post this,” Riley Gaines, a conservative activist who has served as a key cheerleader for the administration’s restrictive policies on transgender athletes, wrote on X. “Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked.”

The post was gone by Monday morning, with the president later telling reporters that “I just heard” about the controversy and acknowledging that he made the initial decision to put up the post. It was a comparatively rare and rapid walkback for Trump, who frequently reposts a range of AI-generated videos and images to his Truth Social platform and has previously dodged responsibility for their content.

In February, for instance, Trump shared a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes, which remained online for nearly 12 hours before it was deleted. The White House ultimately blamed a staffer for the post and Trump declined to apologize.

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