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Denver suspends length-of-stay limit for migrant families in shelters

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The city of Denver is making major changes to how long certain migrants will be allowed to stay in city-run shelters. Previously, migrants with children were allowed to stay for 37 days, but that policy has been paused, at least for now."We're seeing children on the street, and nobody wants to see children on the street," said Jon Ewing, with Denver Human Services. "What we did was we paused discharges for all families, and we actually told families who had timed out to come back inside."Ewing and Denver Human Services say the decision was not an easy one and comes with some compromise. To make room for the additional families, individuals without kids are now only allowed to stay for 14 days, instead of the previous 21.“It’s a hard decision," Ewing said. "Everything we’re talking about involves compromise and tough decisions, and we do not make them lightly." Denver job fair Friday aimed at hiring bilingual shelter workers Ewing said with winter weather quickly mo...

7 months after Edgewater shooting, family still pushing for justice

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

EDGEWATER, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado family is pushing for justice seven months after their loved one was shot and killed at an Edgewater Tesla charging station.The shooter continues to remain unidentified by law enforcement and is so far uncharged as the district attorney now reviews the case. Polis to Biden: Reschedule marijuana before 2024 Loved ones of Adam Fresquez lit candles and shared prayers and pictures of the 33-year-old outside of Edgewater City Council on Tuesday night.Fresquez was shot at a Tesla charging station on May 3. Autopsy results state he was bear sprayed and shot in the back in what police say the shooter claimed was self-defense.Fresquez’s family members still do not know the identity of the person who killed their loved one. They told FOX31 they only have been told he shot him twice in the back and left the scene before turning himself in.“Seven months have been miserable with no answers, no rest, no nothing. Just being left in the dark,” Fresquez’s siste...

Riders say traveling is a nightmare after changes made to Miami-Dade County’s bus system

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

Miami-Dade County has changed the way it runs the bus system. But some riders say it hurts more than it helps.Karen Hensel has tonight’s 7 Investigates.She shares a name with an icon; Barbara Walters.Barbara Walters/transit activist: “I’m not a ghost.”This Barbara Walters says she may not be known for hard-hitting interviews, but she is known for something.Barbara Walters: “I have not owned a car in about 30 years. I’ve become a very strong advocate for public transportation. I can really say it’s my contribution to the environment.”But changes in the Miami-Dade bus system have created a huge bump in the road for Barbara.Barbara Walters: “I went to the bus stop and I see the sign on the bus that as of the 13th of November, no more bus service at that area.”The county rolled out its “Better Bus Network” in November.At least 1,200 bus stops were eliminated.Barbara’s usual stop, which was just a few blocks aw...

David Cameron is living his best life — while Boris Johnson squirms

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

LONDON — As David Cameron heads to Washington this week for his first big speech back on the world stage, his bête noire Boris Johnson will be sat in a dingy room in west London.Johnson is to give two days of televised testimony before Britain’s COVID-19 inquiry, answering a barrage of questions under oath about decisions he took while prime minister in 2020 and 2021 which — many believe — cost thousands of people their lives.As Johnson battles to salvage his battered reputation, Cameron will be strutting through America in a ministerial motorcade, glad-handing Washington’s power players and preparing to address the Aspen Security Forum as U.K. foreign secretary.It’s a stark symbol of just how quickly the political sands can shift. Cameron had long been written out of the British political scene, famously retreating to a hut in his garden to write his memoirs after calling — and losing — the divisive Brexit referendum in 2016. Johnson — an old acquaintance from...

A fixation on death tolls can be a fatal distraction

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

Clionadh Raleigh is President and CEO of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.When Hamas fighters attacked Israel on October 7, they didn’t just target Israeli army bases or civilian towns and homes. They also struck a weak spot in the popular perception of war: a global fixation on fatality figures.Hamas’ apparent order of the day — to kill and capture as many Israelis as possible, whether military or civilian – was a terrorist act by any definition, and its brutality multiplied the shock. However, it would be a mistake to call this nihilism, as United States President Joe Biden did in an editorial. For as both Biden and Hamas know, in many cases, people only notice a conflict when struck by a death toll.I say this because it’s my job to count. It was the astonishing unreliability of fatality statistics that years ago coaxed me to start collecting data on political violence in six African countries. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), which...

China’s paranoid purge

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

Something is rotten in the imperial court of Chairman Xi Jinping. While the world is distracted by war in the Middle East and Ukraine, a Stalin-like purge is sweeping through China’s ultra-secretive political system, with profound implications for the global economy and even the prospects for peace in the region.The signals emanating from Beijing are unmistakable, even as China’s security services have ramped up repression to totalitarian levels, making it almost impossible to know what is really happening inside the country.The unexplained disappearance and removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers — both Xi loyalists who were handpicked and elevated mere months before they went missing earlier this year — are just two examples.Other high-profile victims include the generals in charge of China’s nuclear weapons program and some of the most senior officials overseeing the Chinese financial sector. Several of these former Xi acolytes have apparently died in custody.Anothe...

EU in disarray over plan to fund Ukraine from frozen Russian assets

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

BRUSSELS ― EU countries have poured cold water on a plan to use revenue generated from Russian assets frozen since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine to support the war-torn country’s reconstruction.Several ambassadors from the bloc’s 27 governments argued that an idea drawn up by Spain, in its role at the helm of the EU’s rotating six-month presidency, would not give Ukraine’s economy the urgent boost it needs, and instead risks undermining the EU’s commitment to provide support to Kyiv.For months, EU officials have been exploring ways to skim off the earnings from assets worth some $300 billion that were immobilized after the war began. But the plan has drawn skepticism from some governments, including France and Germany, as well as from the European Central Bank, which fears it could cause instability in the euro currency.The criticism came to a head at a meeting of EU envoys on Tuesday evening. Under Spain’s proposal, obtained by POLITICO and discussed a...

Will China blink? EU to push Xi to cut dual-use exports to Russia

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

BRUSSELS — The EU’s two leaders are expected on Thursday to push China’s President Xi Jinping to take action to curb exports of dual-use goods by Chinese companies to Russia, including a veiled threat of sanctions absent fresh commitments from Beijing, according to five EU officials and diplomats.“We’re very concerned about circumvention of sanctions … And we would like China to take care of some of the entities that are circumventing our sanctions,” a senior EU official said on Tuesday. “The preferred option is that China deals with [the problem] themselves — but we have tools to deal with it ourselves, if necessary.”The strong message is the latest sign of what could be a frosty summit meeting between Xi, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen, presidents of the European Council and the European Commission. While China has stopped short of sending weapons to Russia, there are concerns it has shipped nonlethal but militarily useful g...

Skimming device found at Chelsea Market Basket register

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

An investigation got underway Tuesday after a skimming device was found on a register at a Market Basket store in Chelsea, police said. A police official told 7NEWS store management personnel at the Market Basket on Everett Avenue were told about the device Tuesday evening. The official said the device, which is used to steal credit card information, was similar to ones found at other stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire earlier this year. While the devices were similar, the official said authorities were still investigating whether this latest incident is related as of Tuesday night.Police in Concord, New Hampshire shared an initial warning about skimmers in their community on Nov. 13 a matter of weeks after the skimmers were found at local Walmart and Market Basket locations, respectively. Concord police at the time said skimmers had also been found recently in Somerville, Reading and Haverhill, Massachusetts as well as in Nashua, New Hampshire. The R...

7 Investigates: Dangerous mold spreading through luxury apartments in Quincy

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:42:50 GMT

A new luxury apartment complex in Quincy has great water views and high end amenities. But all was not what it seemed.  Dave Puglisi has tonight’s 7 Investigates.Sandra Fernandez said everything was great in her new Quincy apartment until her son developed a rash.“I was like ‘Something is not right in this apartment,’” she said. “‘My son is sick every night.’”Sandra says she begged management to check inside her walls after she found numerous leaks and suspected mold was growing.“I asked them, they kept denying it and denying it and denying it until we opened the walls,” she said.Mold was discovered in two bedrooms and under her carpets.“They have put our health in danger, my son’s health in danger,” she said.Now some residents have filed a class action lawsuit against Marina Bay, LLC and Bozzuto Management.“We had black mold over here that they recently had to do from the exterior,” said Jared Hannigan. “Our entire wall was taken out.”The suit claims that, by the f...