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Both sides appeal ruling that Trump can stay on Colorado ballot despite insurrection finding

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Both a liberal group that sought to disqualify Donald Trump and the former president himself on Monday night appealed a judge's ruling that Trump “engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, but can stay on the state's primary ballot.The appeals were filed with the Colorado Supreme Court. The ruling by Colorado District Court Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday — which said Trump is not covered by the constitution’s ban on insurrectionists holding office — was the latest in a series of defeats for the effort to end Trump's candidacy with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.The constitutional provision has only been used a handful of times since the years after the Civil War. It was created to prevent former Confederates from returning to government positions. Judge rules Trump can appear on Colorado 2024 Republican primary ballot The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filing on behalf of a group of Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, argued that...

East Colfax staple Tom's Starlight, formerly Tom's Diner, closes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Tom's Starlight, an East Colfax staple under its previous name of Tom's Diner, has officially ended operations.In an email to FOX31, historic real estate firm GBX Group LLC confirmed Tom's Starlight closed on Nov. 17. The Denver restaurant was located at 601 East Colfax Ave. in Capitol Hill. Before it was transformed into Tom's Starlight in 2022, the iconic spot was known as Tom's Diner, a 24-hour restaurant. Legendary rock band The Rolling Stones bringing tour to Denver According to the restaurant's website, owner Tom Messina took the reins of Tom's Diner in 1999 and made it a community staple for 20 years. In 2019 when the building was almost demolished, Messina teamed up with GBX Group LLC to preserve the property and turn it into Tom's Starlight.The location is considered one of Colfax's most iconic buildings, and Messina and his team successfully saved the local landmark. According to GBX Group LLC, they implemented historic preservation programs and partner...

1 game left in Deion Sanders 1st season coaching the Buffs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Deion Sanders' first season as head coach at the University of Colorado Boulder comes to a close this Saturday. After a historic start to the year when Sanders debuted his Buffaloes in Fort Worth and took home an upset win against TCU, the Buffs have faltered a bit and landed last in the Pac-12 standings. The Buffs lost their fifth game in a row last Friday against Washington State. The Cougars claimed victory over the Buffs with a final score of 56-14 and took away the team's hopes of a bowl game this year. Photos: Bigger, upgraded video board coming to CU’s Folsom Field Despite a massive improvement upon last year’s win total, Sanders said the program measures itself against its own expectations.“We’re falling short of what we’re capable of, that’s the part of this that’s tough to digest. We’ve got high expectations here, so this is tremendously disappointing,” said Sanders.The Buffaloes’ postseason hopes were dashed in their largest loss of the “Coach Prime” er...

EU gives France an ‘F’ grade on spending plans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

BRUSSELS / PARIS ― The French government has been told by the European Commission it urgently needs to adjust next year’s spending plans to fall into line with the EU’s debt and deficit rules when they return after a four-year suspension. Paris is among four governments handed warnings over their budget plans by the bloc’s executive in its role policing member countries’ public expenditure. The rules, aimed at preventing instability in financial markets and the build-up of public debt, will retake effect on January 1 after they were shelved to allow greater investment during and after the COVID pandemic. “France’s draft budgetary plan risks not being in line” with the bloc’s rules, Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters in Strasbourg, pointing to rising public expenditure and insufficient cuts to energy support.Belgium, Finland, and Croatia fall into the same category, the Commission said in its statement on Wednesday. Ignorin...

EU countries rally to exempt banks from new green and human rights rules

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

BRUSSELS — A new push from member countries to exempt financial institutions from proposed EU rules on the oversight of business supply chains risks further complicating already thorny negotiations. The proposed rules, now being negotiated by EU institutions, are meant to compel EU-based companies to police their global value chains for environmental or human rights risks.Ahead of a fourth — and potentially penultimate — round of negotiations on Wednesday, EU ambassadors have swung behind a long-standing call by France to exempt the entire financial sector. Paris wants to shield its finance houses from the compliance burden such rules would entail as they seek to win new business following the exit of Britain, and its outsized financial sector, from the EU.A majority voted last week in favor of a proposal from the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU to “exclude the financial sector from the scope” of the rules and to “delay its extension to this sector to a later ...

Boston police arrest man accused of cutting hole in pants of victim to steal cash and phone

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

A 36-year-old man was taken into custody after Boston police say he allegedly robbed a person at knifepoint, cutting open the victim’s clothing to get at their cash and other items in the process.The Boston Police Department said Brandon Frazier of East Boston was arrested after officers were first called to the area of 406 Meridian St. for a report of an armed robbery on Monday.Police arrived to find the victim, who told authorities that a man had approached him while wielding a knife and demanded money from him.According to the victim, when he refused, the suspect proceeded to “cut a hole in the victim’s pants” to get at his money, cell phone, and ATM card.“The victim then stated the suspect placed the knife to his throat and demanded his pin number,” Boston PD stated in a news release.After the victim refused to give a number, police say the suspect threw the victim’s phone and ATM card to the ground before fleeing the scene.Frazier was l...

Belichick refuses to shed light on starting QB decision for Patriots

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

Patriots coach Bill Belichick declined to reveal his starting quarterback when talking to reporters Tuesday morning, repeating only that all of his players should be prepared when New England comes out of its off week to face the New York Giants on Sunday.“I’ve told all the players the same thing: Be ready to go,” Belichick said. “Hopefully, they will be.”Pressed on the question more than a dozen times in the eight minute availability, Belichick repeated a version of the same answer. Asked if he had made a decision, he said, “We’ll let you know on Sunday.”2021 first-round draft choice Mac Jones has started every game this season, but he hasn’t been able to finish three of them — twice in blowouts when Belichick said there was no point in sending him out there, and again in Week 10, a 10-6 loss to Indianapolis. With a chance to rally the Patriots, Bailey Zappe was 3 of 7 for 25 yards and finished by throwing an interception on a fake-spike play to seal the game.Zappe, a fourth-round ...

Gun Bills Finally Going Up For Public Hearing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

Lawmakers are interrupting their session-long push for new gun laws to give the finally public a chance to weigh in on a series of bills.Senate Democrats plan in the new year to unveil and debate a bill they want to put on Gov. Maura Healey’s desk this term, and the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on firearms bills that have been idling all year.The committee, chaired by Rep. Carlos Gonzalez of Springfield and Sen. Walter Timilty of Milton, plans to gather in Gardner Auditorium to accept testimony on 56 gun-related bills.House and Senate Democrats spent months this year at odds over whether to involve the Public Safety Committee in the review of a bill authored by Judiciary Committee Co-chair Rep. Michael Day of Stoneham, a top deputy to Speaker Ron Mariano.The House ultimately circumvented the joint committee process and approved Day’s controversial legislation 120-38 in October. That bill cl...

Israeli Cabinet to consider possible deal for release of some hostages held by Hamas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Cabinet was to convene Tuesday to consider a possible deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas, as troops battled Palestinian militants in an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza and around hospitals overcrowded with patients and sheltering families.Details of any deal, worked out through international mediators, were not immediately known. Talks over the past weeks have centered on a swap of some of the estimated 240 people taken hostage by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack into Israel for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, accompanied by a temporary cease-fire in Gaza.Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union.Senior Hamas officials said an agreement was near. But talks have repeatedly stalled and past predictions of a breakthrough proved premature. Israel announced that its War Cabinet, and then the full Cabinet – whose approval is needed on any deal – would convene Tuesday eveni...

Mass. business leaders want Beacon Hill lawmakers to ‘exercise control’ with spending

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:31 GMT

Business leaders from across Massachusetts warned Tuesday that state spending far outpaced inflation over the past five fiscal years, and cautioned lawmakers to “exercise control” as the fiscal 2025 budget process kicks off next month.Red flags from chamber of commerce leaders up and down the coast and out west come after top lawmakers painted a grim fiscal picture last week for Massachusetts, airing concerns that four consecutive months of below benchmark revenue collections this fiscal year could bode poorly for the state.State spending between fiscal year 2018 and 2022 grew by nearly 27% even as inflation in the Boston area only increased by about 15%, the chamber leaders said in a statement. Even when accounting for the “rapid pace” of increases in health care spending, spending “still substantially outpaced inflation,” they said.“This approach is not sustainable and not responsible,” leaders from Greater Boston, Worcester, Western Massachusetts, the North and South Shores, Cape...