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Jueza federal ordena al gobierno de Biden no retirar alambre de púas instalado por Texas en el río Grande

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

Una jueza federal de Texas ordenó temporalmente este lunes al gobierno de Joe Biden que no retire el alambre de púas instalado por el gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, en el río Grande y que divide la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. La orden de restricción de la jueza del Distrito Oeste de Texas está vigente hasta el 13 de noviembre. La medida prohíbe al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) retirar el cableado “por cualquier motivo que no sea el de proporcionar u obtener ayuda médica de emergencia”.Hace una semana, Texas demandó al DHS y a su titular, Alejandro Mayorkas, por presuntamente permitir que los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza corten el alambre de púas colocado por ese estado en su frontera con México. Gobernador de Texas comparte video del alambre de púas que se instaló en la frontera “Es horrible ver esas púas”: Guardia Nacional refuerza barricadas fronterizas de alambre El fiscal estatal Ken ...

What will the weather be like on Halloween night in Denver, the Front Range?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- When it comes to trick-or-treating in Colorado, you never know whether it will be a frightening evening or just a frighteningly cold one. Halloween falls on Tuesday this year. And while FOX31 does not have a crystal ball to tell you exactly what the future weather will look like, it has something better: Meteorologists.What will the weather be on Halloween?According to Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Greg Perez, conditions will not be too spooky across the Front Range. However, it will be chilly.The sun will set a little before 6 p.m.Trick-or-treat forecast for DenverIn Denver, the outlook isn't too bad: Temperatures look to stay above freezing for the evening. This Colorado town got the most snow this weekend According to Perez, it will be sunny and 42 degrees around 4 p.m. After the sun sets, the temperatures will get a bit colder, coming in at 39 degrees at 6 p.m. and 37 degrees at 8 p.m.Trick-or-treat forecast for DenverTrick-or-treat forecast for AuroraTempera...

Photos: Fancy fowl rescued from Lakewood yard

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Police say they have captured a feathered figure spotted on rooftops in a Lakewood neighborhood on Friday.A peacock was captured in the Copper Oaks neighborhood and transported to the Foothills Animal Shelter before snowflakes began to fly. Lakewood Animal Control Officers caught the peacock with a large net and safely transferred the fowl into a cage of the Animal Control vehicle. $50K reward offered for Horsetooth ‘suspicious’ death classified as homicide The peacock is now safely in the care of the Foothills Animal Shelter, where he (it's a male!) has been listed among the shelter's lost and found animals. The cross street listed is the 10000 block of West Evans Avenue.According to the City of Lakewood's zoning maps, the Copper Oaks neighborhood where the peacock was recovered does allow for poultry houses if they are under 400 square feet.Lakewood Animal Control Officers found this peacock on West Evans Avenue.A lost peacock struts his stuff on a roof of a La...

Lawyers argue whether the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause blocks Trump from the 2024 ballot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for a group of Colorado voters on Monday focused on the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s role, opening a trial that could determine whether the Constitution’s insurrection clause bars Trump from running again for the White House.Attorney Eric Olson recounted Trump’s violent rhetoric preceding the Jan. 6 attack and his encouraging a crowd that came within “40 feet” of the vice president when they stormed the Capitol. He said Trump “summoned and organized the mob.”“We are here because Trump claims, after all that, that he has the right to be president again,” Olson said. “But our Constitution, the shared charter of our nation, says he cannot do so.” Trump’s legal team and presidential campaign assailed the lawsuit as little more than an attempt by Democrats to derail his attempt to reclaim his old job. Trump is so far dominating the Republican presidential primary.Before the trial on the lawsuit began, his lawyers filed...

Israeli President Herzog endorses Macron’s plan for a coalition to fight Hamas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has backed French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for a joint coalition to fight Hamas. “I like Macron’s idea. I thought it was innovative, original, it makes sense,” Herzog told Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company. Referring to Hamas, Herzog added that “this threat must be eradicated by a major effort of the international community such as they’ve done to ISIS.”During Macron’s visit to Israel last week, the French leader suggested the remit of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State terror group should be widened to fight Hamas. “We should build a regional and international coalition to battle against terrorist groups that threaten us all,” he said.Macron’s office took a more cautious stance following the president’s comment...

Elon Musk coming to Rishi Sunak’s AI summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

LONDON — Tech tycoon Elon Musk will attend the U.K.’s artificial intelligence summit this week, Rishi Sunak has confirmed.A U.K. official familiar with summit planning said the X and Tesla boss is expected to attend both days, as well as a separate reception on Thursday after the summit.Musk will take part in a conversation with the U.K. prime minister “after the AI summit,” according to a message posted on Sunak’s official X, formerly Twitter, account on Monday evening.The AI summit — which will focus on risks and mitigations for the cutting-edge tech — is set to take place on Wednesday and Thursday at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire.Attendees for the gathering are being closely watched. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and U.S. President Biden won’t be attending but are sending delegates. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are confirmed.Musk has previously urged caut...

France sues Commission over primacy of English in EU hiring

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

The use of Euro-English and Globish, a simplified version of English used by non-native speakers, may have become widespread in the EU, but France has never given up hope of Brussels bureaucrats speaking French.On the contrary, Paris is now attacking the bloc for hiring some new employees based on assessments conducted in English. Brussels is currently hiring new officials in fields such as space, defense and economics, using a selection process involving some tests that are only given in English. Paris contends that those criteria favor anglophone candidates over their rivals, and has filed two complaints before the EU’s top court; one of them was made public on Monday. For France, English-only tests amount to discrimination and violate the EU treaties. The bloc’s rules generally provide that all EU citizens should be treated equally, regardless of nationality. Rules on recruiting EU officials also ban language-based discrimination in general, and accept it only under certain...

For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

Sara Hutchinson | (TNS) KFF Health NewsHeather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.“I’ve been conditioned to act and behave in a very specific way,” said Avant. “I try to do my hair. I make sure I shower, have nice clothes. Sometimes I put on my University of Michigan shirt.”It’s a strategy to combat discrimination the 42-year-old photographer in Mesquite, Texas, has developed over a lifetime of managing her sickle cell disease, a rare blood disorder that affects an estimated 100,000 Americans. The hereditary condition can affect a person of any race or ethnicity, but Black patients, like Avant, make up the majority of those afflicted in the U.S.For people living with the disease, a sickle cell crisis can happen at any time. When it does, their rigid, sickle-shaped red blood cells become stuck in their blood vessels, blocking flow and causing extreme pain or breathing difficulties. A crisis can escalate into life-threatening complications such as strokes, sei...

Will mortgage rates go down? Experts weigh in

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

Jeff Ostrowski | Bankrate.com (TNS)The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages remained at generational highs this week, climbing to 8.01%, up from 7.99% the previous week, according to Bankrate’s weekly national survey of large lenders.The average rate on 30-year home loans hit its highest point since August 2000, according to Bankrate research. That was before the Sept. 11 terror attacks led the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, and well before the Great Recession spurred the Fed to keep rates low throughout the 2010s.The current run-up in mortgage rates reflects a variety of factors: a resilient U.S. economy, the Fed’s ongoing war on inflation and, more recently, a sharp rise in 10-year Treasury yields, which serve as an informal benchmark for 30-year mortgage rates. The 8% barrier stands as just one more unwelcome milestone in the upward trajectory of borrowing costs.“We’ve seen a tremendous run-up in rates,” says Tom Wind, head of Consumer Lending at U.S. Bank. “It’s kin...

Doubts abound about a new Alzheimer’s blood test

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:14 GMT

Judith Graham | (TNS) KFF Health NewsFor the first time, people worried about their risk of Alzheimer’s disease can go online, order a blood test, and receive results in the privacy of their homes.This might seem appealing on the surface, but the development has Alzheimer’s researchers and clinicians up in arms.The Quest Diagnostics blood test, AD-Detect, measures elevated levels of amyloid-beta proteins, a signature characteristic of Alzheimer’s. Introduced in late July, the test is targeted primarily at people 50 and older who suspect their memory and thinking might be impaired and people with a family history of Alzheimer’s or genetic risks for the condition.Given Alzheimer’s is among the most feared of all medical conditions, along with cancer, this could be a sizable market indeed. Nearly 7 million older adults in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s, and that number is expected to double by 2060 if medical breakthroughs don’t occur.But Alzheimer’s researchers and clinicians aren’t convin...