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NBA planning to announce latest Ja Morant decision after Finals, Silver says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

DENVER (AP) — The latest sanctions, if any, that the NBA plans to levy against Memphis guard Ja Morant for his second instance of displaying a gun on social media will be announced shortly after the finals, Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday.Silver did not say what the penalties were, not even saying if Morant would be available at the start of next season. Morant was suspended for eight games by the NBA in March for an incident where he broadcast himself on Instagram displaying a gun in a suburban Denver club, and was suspended by the Grizzlies last month after another video showed Morant displaying what appeared to be a gun yet again.Silver said the league has discovered more information during its current investigation, but the decision was made to not have the next round of Morant news overshadow the NBA Finals.“We probably could have brought it to a head now, but we made the decision — and I believe the players’ association agrees with us — that it would be unfair to ...

Fiscalía de Jalisco investiga si desaparición de un hombre está vinculada a la de empleados de call center

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Fiscalía del Estado de Jalisco, en México, informó este jueves que indaga si la desaparición de un hombre estaría vinculada a la investigación de los siete trabajadores de un centro de atención telefónica que fueron reportados como desaparecidos entre el 20 y 22 de mayo en la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara.Según la fiscalía, el hombre desaparecido “fue visto por última vez el pasado 22 de mayo cuando se dirigía a trabajar en el municipio de Zapopan”.En otro mensaje, la entidad agregó: “De acuerdo a la información proporcionada al Ministerio Público por los familiares, se considera que el masculino podría estar relacionado con la investigación por desaparición de los siete jóvenes empleados de un call center”.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Nuggets take Game 1 over Miami Heat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Nuggets dominated the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the NBA Finals with a 104-93 victory.After nine rest days the team earned after sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers for the Western Conference championship, the Nuggets dominated the opening matchup in their first-ever championship bid.In his first finals appearance, Nikola Jokic — who got another triple-double — also joined LeBron James as the only two players in the last 25 years with 10 points and 10 assists in any half of an NBA finals game.Full recap to come. Check out photos from Game 1 in the slideshow below.Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler stands on the court during warmups before Game 1 of the basketball team's NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro warms up for Game 1 of the basketball team's NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Denver Nuggets center Nik...

Judge delays first criminal trial in Elijah McClain's death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

DENVER (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to delay the first criminal trial in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb, forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative nearly four years ago. Lawyers for the two officers previously scheduled to go on trial July 10 had asked for more time, saying they could not mount a proper defense because prosecutors have not spelled out what actions by their clients allegedly led to McClain's injuries, or whether they are accused of being directly responsible for his death or considered complicit in other defendants' actions. Police kill boy, search for others after armed robbery in Aurora: chief The defense attorneys said that prevented them from lining up the appropriate witnesses to testify at the joint trial for Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jason Slothouber had objected to a delay, saying the defense has had 20 months to pre...

Colorado 10th in US for getting by on credit cards

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Coloradans are leaning more and more on credit to get by.Analysts from the financial advisor website WalletHub ranked each U.S. state based on the share of its adults who reported using credit cards for expenses in the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey. The analysis included the share of adults who reported difficulty covering expenses on their regular wages, as well. ‘You’re on’: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock accepts NBA Finals wager from Miami’s mayor Coloradans appear to be more willing to put expenses on credit despite needing to less than the residents of other states.Colorado ranks No. 10 for the share of adults using credit cards for necessities. About 39.5% of Coloradans say they need to.Expensive states in the Northeast dominate the top of the list. In Connecticut, 42.5% of adults say they get by on credit, followed by Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Delaware.Coloradans have an easier time, however, covering expenses in the first plac...

Brother of UPS driver killed in 2019 Miramar shootout reacts to MDPD dashcam video, demands justice amid ‘continuing’ probe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

Never-before-seen police dashcam video captured a harrowing 2019 officer-involved shootout in Miramar that left several people dead, including the driver of a UPS truck. That victim’s brother shares his anger and anguish about the incident and the ongoing investigation.It has been three and a half years since 27-year-old Frank Ordonez lost his life after his truck was hijacked by armed robbers in Coral Gables.Dashcam footage provided to 7News captured the heart-stopping moments when the suspects and police officers exchanged gunfire north of the county line, along Miramar Parkway, just east of Flamingo Road, on Dec. 5, 2019.The camera is said to belong to one of the first Miami-Dade Police officers on the scene, following a 30-mile chase into Miramar and a botched robbery at Regent Jewelers on Miracle Mile.Authorities said the two robbers kidnapped Ordonez prior to the deadly encounter on Miramar Parkway.The dashcam audio picked up officer chatter before the cruiser’s dr...

Jokic gets triple-double, Nuggets roll past Heat 104-93 in Game 1 of NBA Finals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic got a triple-double in his NBA Finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the Denver Nuggets had little trouble with the cold-shooting Miami Heat on the way to a 104-93 win in Game 1 on Thursday night.Jokic finished with 27 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets, who waited 47 years to make the finals and didn’t disappoint. Aaron Gordon added 16 points and Michael Porter Jr. scored 14 for Denver, which trailed for all of 34 seconds and eventually led by as many as 24.Bam Adebayo finished with 26 points and 13 rebounds for Miami, which shot 41% for the game — 33% from 3-point range. Gabe Vincent scored 19, Haywood Highsmith had 18 and Jimmy Butler added 13 for the Heat.Game 2 is in Denver on Sunday night.Miami opened the fourth quarter on an 11-0 run, cutting an 84-63 deficit to start the final period down to 84-74. The Heat actually got within nine on a 3-pointer by Highsmith with 2:34 left, but no closer and there wasn’t any doubt, ...

A Parliament of bullies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

EU authorities have repeatedly failed to protect victims of bullying by powerful politicians, amid a culture of indifference toward harassment within the European Parliament, a major POLITICO investigation reveals. A picture built up over four months, based on dozens of interviews and confidential documents, showed a system in crisis that has left junior staffers scarred by years of abuse. Witnesses and victims, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly, described feeling “physically and mentally dead” or even suicidal as a result of harassment, and suffering anxiety and sleep deprivation as they waited for several months — or longer — for their complaints to be processed. One likened the experience of the delays to waiting like “prisoners on death row.” Some insiders said the scale of bullying within the headquarters of EU democracy was “out of control” while others alleged they had suffered sexual harassment and said “mind games” were rife. Often, it was eas...

The Tiananmen massacre and China’s pragmatist soft power

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

Jianli Yang, a Tiananmen massacre survivor and former political prisoner of China, is the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China and the author of It’s Time for a Values-Based “Economic NATO.”The Tiananmen pro-democracy movement of 1989 stood against government corruption and for freedom, attracting countless democracy-seeking supporters before ultimately ending in the bloody Tiananmen massacre.The massacre caused a global outcry, focusing the world’s attention on China’s human rights atrocities. And since then, the country has been unable to escape condemnation and sanctions from the international community over human rights violations.Over the past 34 years, however, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hasn’t just survived the Tiananmen crisis, but it has also established “pragmatist soft power,” which poses a significant challenge to liberal democracy as the only path to modernity.So, how did this happen? And how should the...

From Russia Without Love! The return of the spy whale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:56 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.When you think of a spy it’s probably the usual, James Bond-style tropes: Smart suit, fancy car, bulging forehead, blowhole. Wait, what?Yes, this week has seen the reappearance of a beluga whale that is believed to be a Russian spy. Back in 2019, marine experts in Norway noticed a white-colored whale that they suspected was trained by the Russian navy as part of a program to use underwater mammals as a special ops force. The whale was said to be actively seeking out fishing vessels and trying to pull ropes from the sides of boats, and it was wearing a tight harness which seemed to be for a camera or weapon, raising suspicions that the animal had been given military-grade training by Russia. Inside the harness were the words “Equipment of St. Petersburg” and “Actual Spy” (maybe).Suspicions were also aroused when the whale ordered some herring “shaken, not stirred” and tried to shag everything.Anyway, th...