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Denver conducts 3rd encampment sweep, sends people to hotel

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Tuesday morning, a Denver city crew conducted a third homeless encampment sweep under Mayor Mike Johnston. Around 7:30 a.m. crews showed up to put a fence around the camp at 7th and Logan near the governor's mansion. Denver police officers also showed up. This is the first time the unhoused will be offered a hotel to stay in following the sweep.A seven-day notice was posted on Sept. 19 that the camp would be cleared on Sept. 26. Some of the people living on 7th and Logan will move into a hotel where they will be offered resources. Denver City Council to vote on numerous contracts tied to homelessness Housing advocates at Housekeys Action Network Denver said the hotel stay is appreciated due to the cooler weather coming up. However, they said some people at the camp are not interested in going to the hotel due to the "halfway house-like rules" and called the rules invasive. "It is a surety that many people will move into Best Western only to be kicked out days, w...

Deion Sanders talks tough loss to Oregon, what's next for USC

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It was a rough weekend for Deion Sanders and his Buffaloes. The Oregon Ducks handed Colorado its first loss of the season with a disheartening final score of 42-6.Now, Sanders will face questions surrounding what's next for the Buffs in a press conference at the University of Colorado Boulder on Tuesday. Sanders will speak at 11 a.m., and the press conference will be streamed in the player above. The Buffs were feeling confident heading into their first in-conference game against a Pac-12 opponent. But Bo Nix and his 10th-ranked Ducks proved to be a tough match for CU. Colorado Buffs get national slot for USC game Nix threw three touchdown passes and the Ducks emphatically slammed the brakes on Sanders’ “Cinderella story.”The loss was painful in more ways than one. Not only did Shedeur Sanders get sacked seven times, but CU officially fell out of the AP poll rankings. USC comes to Boulder next week to give Colorado a chance to either jump back in the rankings or be...

Sean Payton has at least met one of the Broncos' goals: make fans forget all about Nathaniel Hackett

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Ownership was counting on Sean Payton to make Broncos fans forget all about Nathaniel Hackett's miserable 2022 season in Denver.Only, not like this.Scowls and scolds have replaced the hugs and handshakes, but some of the bigger embarrassments remain such as the penchant for penalties, the burned timeouts and the troublesome turnovers.September isn't over and Payton's already scrambling to salvage the season following the Broncos' breathtaking 50-point loss at Miami, where only the mercy of Mike McDaniel kept Denver's debacle simply horrific and not also historic. How will the Broncos move forward after historical loss to Dolphins? Rather than tack on a short field goal in the final minute, McDaniel had his backup QB take a knee on fourth-and-14 at the Denver 27, bypassing the chance to break the regular-season record for points scored in a single game set by Washington against the New York Giants in 1966 and tie the all-time record set by the Chicago Bears ...

Jack-in-the-Box employee shoots at customers over missing curly fries: Lawsuit

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Just-released video shows a Jack-in-the-Box employee shoot at a drive-thru customer, reportedly during an argument over missing curly fries.According to a lawsuit filed by Houston attorney, Randall Kallinen, Anthony Ramos and his family ordered a combo meal at the restaurant near Bush Intercontinental Airport in March 2021.Ramos, a Florida resident, was in Houston for work after the February freeze. He picked up his pregnant wife and daughter, who was 6 years old at the time, from the airport and stopped at the drive-thru for food. Fifteen minutes later, they were speeding off in an attempt to avoid gunfire.In newly released video, employee Alonniea Fantasia Ford appears agitated with Ramos. He is in the driver’s seat, his wife is sitting in the front passenger seat, and their daughter is in the back seat. They paid $12.99 for a meal combo, the lawsuit states, but did not get the curly fries they ordered, prompting an argument.Not even half way in...

McDonald’s is adding two new sauces

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

New York (CNN) — McDonald’s is spicing up its sauces.Beginning October 9, the fast food chain is adding two new dipping sauces to its menu for a limited time, joining its lineup of six sauces that include barbecue, ranch and sweet and sour.The first new addition is a sweet and spicy sauce that McDonald’s describes in a release as a “jammy red pepper sauce with a tongue-numbing Szechuan peppercorn kick and extra heat from cayenne pepper.” It’s the first-ever “breakfast-inspired” dipping sauce to be served at its US restaurants.The second is a “mambo sauce,” which is a tomato-based sweet, spicy and vinegary sauce that’s inspired by a type of sauce that’s popular in Washington, DC. Previously, rival KFC briefly sold a mambo sauce at some of its locations in 2021, with the chicken chain describing it as being “synonymous with Black DC food culture” since its creation in the 1950s.Dipping sauces, which don’t require employees to add an ingredient to burgers or make a whole new menu item,...

Biden envoy troubled by reports of ‘violence against civilians’ in Nagorno-Karabakh

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

KORNIDZOR, Armenia — The top U.S. humanitarian aid official Samantha Power said Tuesday she was aware of “very troubling reports of violence against civilians” in the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and complained Azerbaijan had blocked access to the breakaway region for international observers wanting to gauge the severity of the crisis.Nagorno-Karabakh leapt back to international attention last week when Azerbaijani forces won a 24-hour lightning war to force the surrender of the ethnic Armenian authorities in the enclave. Since then, nearly 20,000 people have fled — out of a population of some 100,000 — and fears are growing of ethnic cleansing. Asked by POLITICO whether she agreed with warnings from Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that the exodus reflected “ethnic cleansing,” Power — a former genocide scholar — declined to use the term. However, she added, “testimony” was already being gathered “from people who have fled violence, deprivation, ...

UK’s Suella Braverman: It’s not racist to want to change European rights treaty

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

LONDON — It is not racist or “anti-refugee” to want reform of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Britain’s home secretary declared Tuesday.Speaking in Washington at the American Enterprise Institute, Suella Braverman — seen as a top contender in a future leadership race for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives — argued Western culture could “disappear” without harder borders. And she called for changes to international asylum rules, as well as reform of the ECHR, to make that happen. Braverman argued that the international community had “collectively failed to explore any serious reform of the global asylum framework,” in part because of the “fear of being branded a racist or illiberal.”The U.K. interior minister said “any attempt to reform” the U.N.’s own refugee convention “will see you smeared as anti-refugee,” adding: “Similar epithets are hurled at anyone who suggests reform of the ECHR or its court in Strasbourg.”“I reject the not...

Specter of Russian interference hangs over Slovak election, EU warns

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

The upcoming Slovak elections are “a test case” of how vulnerable European elections are to the “multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation” that Moscow uses to meddle in votes through online disinformation, the European Union’s chief digital affairs official said Tuesday.Slovaks head to the polls on September 30 for their parliamentary election. Leading the polls is the populist Smer-SD party headed by Robert Fico, the country’s controversial former prime minister who supports ending military support to Ukraine. The vote is crucial “because the approach to Russia or Ukraine is a divisive line,” said European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová, the Czech politician in charge of digital affairs and democracy at the EU level.The EU also holds its own European Parliament election in June next year. Poland will choose its next government on October 15, in another critical election that could influence Russia’s prospects in...

Growing number of Senate Democrats call for Menendez to resign amid federal indictment

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

Washington (CNN) — Sens. Tammy Baldwin, Jack Rosen and Jon Tester on Tuesday are among the latest Senate Democrats to call on their Democratic colleague, Sen. Bob Menendez, to resign in the wake of a federal indictment accusing him of corruption-related offenses.“While Senator Menendez enjoys the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and will have his day in court to defend himself, I believe it’s best for his constituents, the American people, and our national security for the Senator to step down,” Baldwin, of Wisconsin, said in a statement Tuesday morning.Tester, who faces a tough reelection in Montana next year, echoed Baldwin’s sentiments.“I’ve read the detailed charges against Senator Menendez and find them deeply disturbing. While he deserves a fair trial like every other American, I believe Senator Menendez should resign for the sake of the public’s faith in the U.S. Senate,” he said in a statement.The lack of support from Menendez’s Democratic colleagues co...

Judge dismisses charges against Philadelphia police officer in fatal shooting during traffic stop

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:50 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has dismissed all charges, including a murder count, against a Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a driver.Philadelphia Municipal Judge Wendy Pew made her ruling Tuesday after watching video of the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry. The defense had asserted that Officer Mark Dial was acting in self-defense when he fired his weapon at close range through the rolled-up driver’s side window of Irizarry’s sedan during a vehicle stop on Aug. 14.Defense lawyer Brian McMonagle had urged Pew to drop all charges, which included manslaughter, official oppression and four other counts.Dial’s bail had been revoked this month after prosecutors argued the charges made him ineligible for release.Police bodycam footage shows Dial firing his weapon at close range through the rolled-up driver’s side window of Irizarry’s sedan during a vehicle stop. Dial shot Irizarry about seven seconds after getting out of a police SUV and walking over to his...