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Parent group demands removal of 3 Denver Public Schools administrators

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver Public Schools parent group is demanding that three district administrators be removed after a student charged with attempted murder showed up to enroll at Thomas Jefferson High School.A DPS spokesperson told FOX31 there are no plans to remove the administrators from the discipline committee, which decided not to expel a student accused of a gun crime just off the East High School campus. Stabbing suspect arrested again shortly after being freed from jail The Parents Safety Advocacy Group, or P-SAG, sent Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero and district leaders an email expressing outrage over FOX31's exclusive investigation into discipline over gun crimes in Denver Public Schools. The Problem Solvers first reported Tuesday that a 16-year-old student wanted for attempted murder in Adams County and another gun crime in Denver caused a lockdown at Thomas Jefferson High School when he showed up there to enroll on Aug. 25.Gun case near East High before robbery and ...

Roving bear spotted in Broomfield was last seen in Lafayette

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A bear was spotted throughout the day Thursday across multiple cities north of Denver.The roving bear was last spotted in Lafayette, police there posted around 8 p.m. They said dispatchers were getting calls that the bear was sighted near Copper Stone apartments in the 700 block of Lafayette Drive.Lafayette was the latest stop for the bear that came to the public's attention earlier in the day. Police said it also was spotted multiple times on Thursday in Westminster and Broomfield.The bear was seen in Broomfield in the area of Zuni Street and West 150th Avenue, according to the Broomfield Police Department. Police posted about the bear at 5:07 p.m.A bear spotted in a Broomfield backyard on Sept. 7, 2023 (Submitted)Residents in the area told FOX31 they got a reverse 911 notification about the bear around 6:30 p.m. Police said around 7 p.m. that the bear was last spotted west of the Wildgrass neighborhood heading out of the Broomfield area.People were urged not to app...

Boulder stabbing suspect arrested again shortly after being freed from jail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — As Boulder prepares for the Colorado Buffaloes football home opener, police in the city have made several arrests in one of its busiest areas.One of the people they arrested had just gotten out of jail after being arrested for allegedly stabbing someone just two weeks ago. CU Buffs football vs. Nebraska: TV channel, time, what to know for home opener Seven people were arrested in two hotspots near downtown on Wednesday. The targeted enforcement took place in two areas including Central Park and Pearl Street Mall. Police in Boulder say drug overdoses and an uptick in crime triggered the operation.“Our goal is we want our public spaces to be safe for everyone to enjoy. We have issues with people camping in our public spaces, and what we’ve learned from our community is people have not felt particularly safe,” Boulder Police Deputy Chief Stephen Redfearn said.Boulder Police say one of the men taken into custody had just been arrested two weeks ago for allegedl...

‘Everybody in that tunnel was trapped’: Driver caught in street takeover, as reckless racing continues to roar across South Florida

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

They are loud, disruptive and dangerous. The problem of illegal street racing and drivers taking over intersections is roaring across the streets of South Florida. 7’s Karen Hensel investigates this reckless trend.The sounds of burning rubber, revving engines and gunfire.Dispatcher: “Female shot in the leg, male grazed in the shoulder.”A combustible mix that ended with three people injured in Northwest Miami-Dade on Aug. 6.Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, Miami-Dade Police Department: “We could have had multiple people dead.”A week later on South Beach…Witness: “Yeah, there was a good amount of blood.”A man was beaten during another street takeover.Witness: “As the guy was walking, he jumped off his bike and started wailing on him.”And just this past weekend at an intersection in Miami, drivers were doing donuts in a ring of fire. Videos like this are often shared on social media.It’s one thing to watch this reckless behavior cau...

Jimmy Fallon apologizes to staff over allegations of difficult work environment on ‘Tonight Show’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

(CNN) — Jimmy Fallon has apologized to his colleagues over allegations outlined in a Rolling Stone story published Thursday about a difficult work environment at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” CNN has learned.During a Zoom call with staff of “The Tonight Show” held after the story published, Fallon reportedly said he did not intend to “create that type of atmosphere for the show,” according to a follow-up story by Rolling Stone, citing unnamed employees who were on the call.CNN has reached out to representatives for Fallon.An NBC representative referred CNN to the network’s statement printed in Rolling Stone’s original report.“It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad,” the employees claim Fallon said, according to the Rolling Stone article.“Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends… I feel so bad I can’t even tell you,” the article quotes Fallon.“I want the show to be fun, [it] should be inclusive to everybody,” Fallon also reportedly said...

Rishi Sunak flies to India for G20 summit with post-Brexit trade deal in sight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

LONDON — Rishi Sunak arrives in New Delhi for the G20 leaders’ summit Friday hoping to finalize a slimmed-down trade deal with India for signoff next month.A free-trade agreement between the U.K. and India — one of the most coveted prizes of Brexit — will not be done and dusted this weekend, but both sides are hopeful a deal can be reached before the end of the year.Such an outcome hinges in part on face-to-face talks between Sunak and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scheduled for Saturday in New Delhi. No. 10 Downing Street is keen to make much of Sunak’s trip, with his spokesperson telling reporters this week: “As the first British prime minister of Indian descent, his visit will be an historic moment.”Sunak now faces “a political decision” on whether to press ahead with a slimmed-down trade deal, one senior business representative told POLITICO, as Modi works to “bounce” him into a rapid agreement ahead of next year’s Indian election.“Modi...

What ex-prime ministers do next 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast In the week we marked the first anniversary of Liz Truss taking office — and Boris Johnson leaving Downing Street — host Aggie Chambre explores what former prime ministers do next with their lives. Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, fired by Truss 38 days into her 45 day premiership, talks of the “emptiness” and “numbness” that comes with leavin...

Liz Truss’ sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng speaks of ’emptiness’ after Downing Street

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

LONDON — Former U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng spoke out about the “numbness” and “emptiness” top politicians feel after being ousted from office.Kwarteng was sacked 38 days into Liz Truss’ short-lived and chaotic premiership last year. He presided over the “mini-budget,” which precipitated market turmoil, an emergency intervention from the Bank of England, and was gutted within days.Speaking to POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast, Kwarteng said he felt “let down” by his longstanding friend and political ally Truss. He revealed the two have not spoken about his dramatic firing since it took place.In an episode about what former prime ministers do after leaving office, Kwarteng gave a frank assessment of politicians who are “adrenaline junkies” and likened top jobs to being in an “action movie.”Speaking about how ex-leaders feel after office, Kwarteng said: “These people, political people, but I think particularly people who get to the top, they...

Labour should encourage Britain’s Indo-Pacific ambitions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

Ben Bland is the director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House.As the United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party senses that it is getting closer to power, it is following a seemingly contradictory strategy: intensifying its polemical attacks on the Conservatives, while also ensuring its own policies hew closely to the Tories to neutralize any claims that leader Keir Starmer is a dangerous radical.This may well prove to be sound electoral triangulation, but when it comes to foreign policy and Britain’s uncertain place in a fast-changing world, Labour needs to be thinking beyond such electoral tactics.Along these lines, Starmer and Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy have already indicated that, if elected, Labour will maintain support for Ukraine and work along Tory lines to improve the post-Brexit relationship with the European Union. However, the party seems unconvinced by the Conservative government’s Indo-Pacific tilt — and this needs to change.For the past yea...

Europe is under attack — by wolves and deadly insects

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:41 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.Yes, it’s the return of Declassified after a busy month moonlighting doing PR work for the Spanish football federation.It’s been a strange month. Olaf Scholz is now sporting an eye patch after an accident while out jogging, meaning that there is now one interesting thing about Olaf Scholz. Also, congratulations to those of you who had “August 23” and “in a plane crash” on your “How Yevgeny Prigozhin Will Be Killed By Putin” bingo card.Speaking of the hunted, Ursula von der Leyen is angry like the wolf (again). You may remember that the European Commission chief’s beloved pony was killed by a wolf in Germany last year (RIP Dolly). The wolf responsible — known as GW950m, or Dave to his mates — faced a kill order but has not, as far as we are aware, actually been shot by either a German hunter or by one of the more anonymous members of the Commission, sent by VDL to live ...