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Colorado flags to be flown at half-staff on Thursday

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Gov. Jared Polis has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on Thursday as directed by President Joe Biden. Polis announced that all flags will be at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Dec. 7 in honor of the Americans who died at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. On this day 82 years ago, 2,403 service members and civilians were killed in a surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States Armed Forces. This attack launched the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor veteran in Fort Collins remembers the 1941 attack Dec. 7 is now known as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.The stories of the Greatest Generation’s ultimate courage and commitment continue to inspire an enduring sense of unity and purpose throughout our Nation. They remind us that, in the darkest of moments, we have the power to bend the arc of history toward a freer and more just future. They remind us that, from death, destruction, and division, we can build a better world — on...

Which areas are under a winter weather advisory on Thursday, Friday?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thursday will start warm and breezy, but conditions will change quickly overnight when a storm system moves in.The Pinpoint Weather team has been tracking a snowstorm that will make its way into Colorado late Thursday night. A Pinpoint Weather Alert Day has been issued for Friday due to the big swing in temperatures and conditions. Timing, totals, impact of Friday’s snowstorm in Denver metro Temperatures will be mild on Thursday with sunny skies and highs in the 60s, but several areas along the foothills are under a high wind warning. A sign of what's to come. The National Weather Service is issuing a winter weather advisory ahead of Friday's storm. Here are the areas that will be affected. Areas under a winter weather advisory While the snow won't make its way into the metro until mid-morning on Friday, the storm will first arrive in the high country and along the Western Slope. A winter weather advisory has been issued from 9 p.m. Thursday through 5 p.m. Friday ...

Celebrate your natural strands at Coilture Freedom Festival

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

Going natural means peace and “hairmony.” Letting your hair grow for the holiday season will make you strand out. Deco tracked down the latest curly trends to wipe those “stresses on your tresses” away.Simone Hylton, owner of Natural Trendsetters: “I like to just impress onto people that if you embrace your natural hair you can shine.”And shine you shall! Just like Oprah and Issa Rae who are all about going all natural.Hair stylist Simone Hylton can’t wait to show off her coiling skills at the Coilture Freedom Festival this weekend during Soul Basel.Simone Hylton: “It is a day to celebrate and embrace natural beauty. It’s going to be a really good time. We have performers, performances, and a hot hair fashion show where we get to show you the latest trends, fashion, hair.”Speaking of trends.Simone Hylton: “This is a new technique that everyone is going crazy about now, it’s called tree braids. I’m going to...

Vehicle crashes into Pincho Factory restaurant in Pembroke Pines

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

Pembroke Pines Police are on the scene of a vehicle crash, according to a post on X. 7SkyForce was overhead on Thursday morning and captured the crash from and aerial view. According to officials, a Pincho Factory restaurant, located at 155 N Hiatus Road, was involved in a collision with a car. No injuries have been reported, and traffic in the area remains unaffected, said police. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

‘Anyone but Putin’: Navalny launches election campaign against Russian ruler

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged Russians to vote for anyone but incumbent President Vladimir Putin in March’s election. Putin will use the election as an “approval of the war” he is waging against Ukraine, Navalny’s campaign warned on Thursday. “On 17 March, the day of the election, we urge everyone to come to the polls and vote against Vladimir Putin,” they added. Election results “will be rigged,” Navalny’s team said, but everyone must understand that “Russia doesn’t need Putin anymore.” The Russian Senate voted Thursday to hold a presidential election on March 17. Longtime leader Putin has still to formally announce his new presidential bid — but he will almost certainly run (and win) again. After silencing almost all of his domestic political opposition, Putin is expected to stay in power until at least 2030. Navalny has been one of those cracked down on, spending almost three year...

Putin as the new Mr. Darcy? Austrian ex-minister lauds ‘gentleman’ Russian leader

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

When you think of an old-fashioned gentleman straight from the pages of a Jane Austen novel, who do you think of?Well, if you are former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, it’s Russian President Vladimir Putin.Kneissl told the BBC in an interview published Thursday that she stands by her controversial decision to move to Russia, and she was full of praise for the Russian president.  “[Putin] is the most intelligent gentleman, with the focus on gentleman — and I’ve met a few,” Kneissl said. “In the sense of what Jane Austen wrote in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ about the accomplished gentleman, he amounts to this standard.”Kneissl served as Austria’s foreign minister from 2017 to 2019, drawing criticism for her close links to the Russian leader.In 2018, she invited Putin to her wedding in the Austrian Alps and shared a waltz with him, attracting the fury of opposition leaders. But while the infamous dance remains a hot top...

Rishi Sunak vows to ‘finish the job’ as Tory migration splits burst into the open

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

LONDON — A defiant Rishi Sunak vowed to take on his Conservative critics Thursday as his party’s deep splits over migration policy burst into the open.At a hastily-arranged Downing Street press conference, the prime minister — reeling from the resignation of his immigration minister on Wednesday night — declared “I want to finish the job” and insisted a looming vote on his new plan won’t be treated as a matter of confidence in his government.It comes after Robert Jenrick dramatically quit Sunak’s administration, arguing that a new law to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda didn’t go far enough and would once again fail in the courts.The Tories have been trying since last year to get the controversial plan of sending some asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing — and potential settlement — by Rwandan authorities off the ground, in the teeth of major legal setbacks on human rights grounds.On Wednesday Sunak published a new law to try and shore up the scheme a...

United opposition poses stern test for Vučić in Serbia’s election

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

BELGRADE — Serbian firebrand President Aleksandar Vučić’s penchant for perpetually calling elections looks liable to come back and bite him, as a united opposition is mounting an unexpectedly stern challenge to his decade-long grip on power in a snap general election on December 17.Seizing on public outrage over two tragic mass shootings in May — which killed 19 people, including 10 at a Belgrade school — the opposition has pulled together under the banner Serbia Against Violence, claiming Vučić’s administration inspires a culture of brutality propagated in part through divisive television programming and coarse reality shows.It’s a political groundswell that builds upon festering fears that Vučić is presiding over a glaring decline in the EU candidate country’s democratic standards, press freedoms and the independence of public institutions.Serbia Against Violence is now polling at about 40 percent, while Vučić’s coalition has around 49 percent su...

UNLV gunman was a career professor who had applied for a job at the school, source says

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

(CNN) — The shooter who killed three people Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a 67-year-old career college professor, a law enforcement source said. And investigators are looking into the possibility that he may have been passed over for a job at the university.The shooter, identified by law enforcement sources as Anthony Polito, died at the scene after a confrontation with police outside of a university building, according to Las Vegas Metro Sheriff Kevin McMahill.CNN was told the investigative theory on a possible motive is that Polito sought a position at UNLV but was not hired.He had worked for schools in Georgia and North Carolina, a law enforcement source told CNN. Polito’s LinkedIn page lists his most recent full-time employment as a business professor at East Carolina University, a position which ended in 2017.The shooting began shortly before noon on the fourth floor of the university’s Beam Hall business school building, where s...

Facing domestic violence allegations, Von Miller expected to be available to play for Buffalo this week

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:12:32 GMT

(CNN) — Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller is expected to be available to play in the team’s next scheduled game on Sunday, according to general manager Brandon Beane.Last week, Miller turned himself into the Glenn Heights Police Department after an arrest warrant was issued for him.According to the arrest warrant affidavit from the Dallas Police Department, Miller has been accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend.Beane told reporters Wednesday that they are comfortable with Miller being with the team moving forward and will follow the National Football League’s (NFL) lead going forward.“Listen, you never want anyone in your organization, no matter what organization you’re in, to have an allegation like that,” Beane said.“That’s a very serious nature and … we’re gonna take every precaution with. Culture and character and all those things are super important. But we also have to remember we have to let the legal process play out. The guy that we’ve know...