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Denver weather: Hot, dry, windy Friday poses elevated fire risks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

The warm and dry weather is sticking around for another day, but some strong winds added to the forecast Friday have increased the area’s fire risks.Another warm and dry today. West winds gusting to 25 mph will result in elevated fire weather conditions over the higher terrain. A couple of showers/storms will be possible over the plains late this afternoon and evening. #COwx pic.twitter.com/WAmLxbS6Un— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) September 8, 2023Denver will see a mostly sunny day with a high of 90 degrees. Winds will be between eight and 13 mph, with some gusts reaching 17 mph. The low Friday night is 57 degrees.Humidity will get into the teens Friday across most of Colorado, adding to the elevated fire danger throughout the state.After Friday, Denverites will have to endure one more warm day before a cold front moves in Sunday to bring temperatures down to the 70s most of next week. Saturday will still be warm and sunny, but the high is a couple degrees below 90 at 88. T...

Apple loses about $200 billion in market capitalization on reports of iPhone restrictions in China

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

Apple has lost around $200 billion in market capitalization over several days as tensions between the U.S. and China rise, with several media outlets reporting this week that the iPhone maker is being singled out by Beijing.Apple shares fell 3% Thursday and are down more than 5% for the week on reports of an iPhone ban for Chinese state employees that is being dictated by Beijing. The ban was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources saying China is ordering officials at central government agencies not to use iPhones or other foreign branded phones. The Financial Times cited six unnamed sources at government institutions and state-owned companies, including a nuclear technology company and a hospital, saying they’ve been told to stop using Apple phones. The ban widens earlier restrictions on using iPhones for work, the outlets said. “Beijing is looking to reduce its dependence on U.S. technology, but this (ban) acts as a significant headwind ...

Anti-LGBTQ messages posted to Metro's Facebook page

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

Anti-LGBTQ messaging was posted to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Facebook page Thursday, which the agency attributes to a hack.The agency took to X, formerly Twitter, at 12:35 p.m. to apologize for the "hate speech" that was posted.At that time, Metro said they "don't have the ability to remove" the post, but by Friday morning, it could no longer be seen on their Facebook page.Despite its eventual removal, the message was noticed by many in Southern California, including by the users of the r/LosAngeles community on Reddit. Man fatally stabbed on Metro platform in downtown Los Angeles A screenshot shared to the site shows the hackers claimed that "homosexuals go against the natural disposition (fitrah) which Allah has created in mankind."The hackers further alleged that homosexuality leads to "the breakup of the family" and causes people to give up on "work and study because they are preoccupied with these perversions."While many Redditors seemed t...

Freeway takeover frustrates drivers in Anaheim

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

Dozens of participants in a freeway takeover in Anaheim were seen on video scattering and jumping into their vehicles to leave the area early Friday morning. The incident was reported around 1:15 a.m. on the northbound 5 Freeway just before Magnolia Avenue. Dozens of participants scatter after a freeway takeover in Anaheim on Sept. 8, 2023. (OnScene.TV)The video does not show the vehicles taking part in the takeover but burnout marks can be seen across nearly all lanes of traffic. Drivers who were unable to move because of the incident could be heard honking their disapproval. Woman stabbed at Red Lobster in West Hills California Highway Patrol officers did show up at the scene and apparently pursued several vehicles, according to stringer news service OnScene.TV.There was no word on whether any arrests were made.

Highway 87 set for weekend closures in coming weeks: Roadshow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

Q: The Highway 87 sign at Taylor Street eastbound and the 87 on-ramp has fallen over completely. It should be removed.Steven LimA: Thanks for this information. I passed it on to Caltrans and it has been fixed.In other Highway 87 news, Caltrans will close southbound and northbound Highway 87 on two weekends, one in late September, the other in late October. During the 56-hour closures, Caltrans will do major pavement repair work in one direction at a time. Detours will be in place during the closures.The northbound 87 closure between Interstate 280 and Highway 85 is scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 22. The southbound 87 closure will be the weekend of Oct. 20. Closures start Friday after 9 p.m. and conclude the following Monday, no later than 5 a.m.Q: My husband has a Purple Heart license plate. He recently saw on the DMV website that he is entitled to a waiver of tolls (AB 2949). He has a FasTrak transponder. How does he claim this benefit?Susan McCloryA: FasTrak handles the vetera...

Presto’s Picks: Virginia plays emotional matinee while Pac-12 enjoys one final run

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

There are many reasons to love the Pac-12 as it enters its final season after dissolving in record time this summer. The Big East needed two poachings by the ACC to become completely toothless.And while I know many of us can’t wait for matchups that include Maryland-Oregon, Virginia-Stanford, Virginia Tech-Cal, and West Virginia-Utah, there’s something that’s going to be lost here.Those of a certain age remember when that league dominated the Rose Bowl, often against favored Big Ten teams poised for a national championship. From 1969 to 1986, the conference went 16-2 in “The Granddaddy of Them All,” while giving Ohio State and Michigan fans nightmares for months to follow. In a sport where running ruled most game plans, the conference gave the NFL big arms from Jim Plunkett to Warren Moon, and Troy Aikman to Carson Palmer.The league also delivered outstanding rivalries where the unexpected became the expected in games like USC-UCLA (did the sport ever l...

Pumas have a goalkicker to worry England at Rugby World Cup. Ireland and Australia also kick off

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

There’s a strong whiff of ‘missed opportunity’ when Argentina has played England at the Rugby World Cup.Missed goalkicks and a red card have undermined Argentina’s three past meetings and let England off the hook.The Pumas, for the first time, are favored against the one-time world champion when they meet on Saturday in Marseille.ENGLAND vs ARGENTINA (England leads 19-1-5 overall, 3-0 in RWC)In their first World Cup meeting in 1995 in Durban, the Pumas scored two tries to none but England won 24-18 off eight goalkicks by Rob Andrew. The next time in 2011 in Dunedin, Argentina led 9-3 on kicks until England’s go-ahead, 67th-minute converted try and Jonny Wilkinson’s late penalty to prevail 13-9. The last time was 2019 in Tokyo, where Tomas Lavanini was sent off for a shoulder shot on Owen Farrell. England led 5-3 at the time. It won 39-10.The Pumas should have won the first two games but converted only a combined five of 17 penalty kicks.This time, they are armed wi...

German lawmakers approve a contentious plan to replace fossil-fuel heating

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Friday approved contentious legislation for the replacement of fossil-fuel heating systems, passing a major climate policy plan that prompted lengthy infighting in the governing coalition and helped push down its poll ratings.Parliament’s lower house voted 399-275, with five absentions, for the bill — months after an initial version of it was first approved by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet. An ensuing fight over its details in Scholz’s ideologically diverse three-party coalition fueled an impression of disarray from which the government is struggling to recover.The junior partners in the coalition led by Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party — the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats — argued publicly before sealing a bare-bones compromise in mid-June on the plan to replace old fossil-fuel heating systems with alternatives such as heat pumps.It was firmed up into detailed legislation shortly b...

Trump hosts a $100,000-per-person fundraiser to help Giuliani pay legal bills

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club as Giuliani struggles to pay his mounting legal bills.Giuliani, a longtime Trump ally who also served as the fellow Republican’s lawyer, is facing a barrage of legal fees, fines, sanctions and damages related to his work helping Trump try to overturn the 2020 election and other cases. He was indicted last month along with Trump and 17 others in Georgia for what Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has described as a wide-ranging conspiracy to subvert the will of the voters after Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.Giuliani’s son, Andrew, said in a radio interview that the Thursday night event was expected to raise more than $1 million for his father and that Trump had committed to hosting a second event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, later in the fall or early winter.“So that will be very helpful...

Rail operator fined 6.7 million pounds in Scottish train crash that killed 3

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:51 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A British rail operator was fined 6.7 million pounds ($8.4 million) Friday after pleading guilty to safety failures that led to a derailment that killed three people and injured six others in Scotland three years ago.Network Rail was punished after admitting in High Court in Aberdeen, Scotland, that several lapses endangered passengers and rail workers when extreme rainfall washed rocks and gravel over the tracks and caused the train to derail and topple down a hill. Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, were killed in the Aug. 12, 2020 crash near the coastal town of Stonehaven.“Very few people in the north east of Scotland will ever forget the images of the carriages,” Judge Hugh Matthews said as he delivered his sentence. “No penalty I can impose will come close to compensating those whose lives have been touched by this tragedy. The only disposal I have is a fine.”Peter Gray, the lawyer f...