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Supreme Court allows work to proceed on a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court allows work to proceed on a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters.Source

Teenage girl struck by car in Montgomery Village, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 GMT

A teenage girl is in the hospital after being struck by a car early Tuesday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland.According to Montgomery County police, the crash happened at around 6:45 a.m. on East Village Avenue between Heritage Farm Drive and Plum Creek Drive.The teenager suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police did not reveal her name or precise age.The driver of the vehicle stayed on the scene.No charges have been announced at this time.East Village Avenue was temporarily closed between Heritage Farm Drive and Plum Creek Drive for around three hours as police investigated the scene. The roadway has since reopened.Below is a map of where the accident took place. Source

The Philadelphia Eagles’ ‘tush push’ is becoming the NFL’s most unstoppable play

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The most unstoppable play in the NFL was on full display under the bright lights Monday night.When the Philadelphia Eagles need a yard, they often resort to the “tush push. ”Quarterback Jalen Hurts lines up under center with two or three players behind him. He takes the snap, the offensive line surges forward and Hurts gets a big push from behind.It almost always works. Even when it doesn’t, the Eagles do it again.Hurts was stopped short of the end zone on third down from the 1 in the third quarter of a 25-11 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night. So Philadelphia went for it on fourth down. Tight end Dallas Goedert, running back D’Andre Swift and wide receiver A.J. Brown provided the push from behind and Hurts crossed the goal line for a touchdown that made it 20-3.In the fourth quarter, the Eagles did it successfully for the fourth time against the Buccaneers to extend a drive that chewed up the final 9:22.Philadelphia had tremendous success with ...

Denver conducts 3rd encampment sweep, sends people to hotel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:24 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...