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Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted to the right. Can the parties make a deal?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a decade ago that Capitol Hill was consumed by an urgency to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, fueled in no small part by Republicans who felt a political imperative to make inroads with minority voters by embracing more generous policies.But nothing ever became law and in the time since, Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right, with the debate now focused on measures meant to keep migrants out as Republicans sense they have the political upper hand.Long gone are the chatter and horse-trading between parties over how to secure a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, or a modernized work permit system to encourage more legal migration. Instead, the fights of late have centered on how much to tighten asylum laws and restrain a president’s traditional powers to protect certain groups of migrants. Now, Democrats and Republicans are again struggling to strike an immigration deal — and the consequenc...

Weld County deputies searching for suspect after shelter-in-place

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Deputies in Weld County were asking residents to stay in their homes while they searched for a suspect with "violent tendencies."The Weld County Sheriff's Office tweeted about the incident at 8:46 a.m. Wednesday saying they were looking for a "violent" suspect.They provided an update at 10:52 a.m., saying that the scene was safe. Deputies were in the area of Yosemite Drive and Badlands Court in the Hill N Park subdivision in Greeley. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox According to WSCO, deputies are still looking for the suspect, identified as Todd Anderson.Anderson is described as:White male44 years oldLong brown hair and blue eyes6 feet, 2 inches tallWeighs 170 lbs.Last seen wearing a black jacket and black pantsThe Weld County Sheriff's Office tweeted out two photos of Anderson. The sheriff's office established new charges against Anderson based on deputies' contact with him on Wednesday. Anderson is wanted for suspicion of posse...

Colorado had the highest remote work rate nationwide last year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- According to U.S. Census Bureau data, a higher percentage of Colorado employees worked from home in 2022 than in any other state nationwide. In 2022, an estimated 21.2% of Coloradans worked remotely, just over a fifth of the working population, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Denver homes are 120% more expensive than 10 years ago While not a state, Washington, D.C. did have a higher rate of remote work, with 33.8% of residents in the nation's capital doing so.Among the states, Washington had the next-highest rate at 20.5%:Colorado - 21.2%Washington - 20.5%Arizona (tie) - 19.2%Maryland (tie) - 19.2%Oregon - 19%Colorado's rate was down from 2021 when 23.7% of state residents worked from home.However, unsurprisingly, the number is much higher than before the pandemic, when only 9.1% of Coloradans worked from home, according to the data.Still, even in 2019, Colorado had the highest remote work population nationwide.Boulder popular for remot...

Colorado awarded initial funding for Front Range Passenger Rail Project

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation are including the Front Range Passenger Rail in a project authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and have awarded $500,000 for initial development.The Front Range Passenger Rail Project would create a passenger railroad system from Fort Collins to Pueblo, according to Rep. Joe Neguse, connecting 13 of Colorado's most populous counties and spanning roughly 200 miles to create a "transportation 'spine' along the Front Range of Colorado." Timing, totals, impact of Friday’s snowstorm in Denver metro Long-term goals are to connect the state with its neighbors to the north and south -- Wyoming and New Mexico.Gov. Jared Polis applauded the inclusion of the Front Range project in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's Corridor ID Program."Coloradans want Front Range Rail and I've heard firsthand from people in Pueblo, Fort Collins, and from across our state that they want more options to ge...

ISIS propaganda seducing ‘new generation of teenagers,’ French domestic intel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

A new generation of French teenagers is being wooed by the Islamic State terrorist group — infamous for its on-camera immolations of captives in Iraq — and seems ominously susceptible to the group’s propaganda, according to the head of France’s DGSI internal security directorate, Nicolas Lerner.France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations — has suffered multiple terrorist attacks in the past few months, most recently last weekend near the Eiffel Tower in Paris when a German man was killed and two others were injured. A French prosecutor said the perpetrator had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.“The three attack plots foiled by the DGSI in 2023 involved individuals who were all under the age of 20,” Lerner said in a Thursday interview with Le Monde, in which he claimed they were members of this group. Lerner used the terms Islamic State and ISIS interchangeably.“The youngest was 13 years old. Two others were 14 years old. In s...

Israel could open second front in Lebanon, defense minister hints

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

Despite increasing pressure from the U.S. to rein in the war in Gaza, Israel’s defense minister is now suggesting his forces could soon open a northern second front to push Iran-backed Hezbollah back from the Lebanese border.Speaking to mayors and municipal leaders from the north, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday the government would not encourage some 80,000 residents evacuated from northern communities near the Lebanese border to return home before Hezbollah is driven back beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon.The persistent fear from northern communities is that they are at serious risk of rocket attacks and incursions by Hezbollah.In remarks cited by the Times of Israel and Haaretz, Gallant said in a meeting in Nahariyya, the northernmost coastal city in Israel, that the government hoped to push Hezbollah back through diplomatic means but, if that failed, would “act with all the means at its disposal” using military action.The southern stretch ...

Minister quits over Rishi Sunak’s new plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s government suffered a blow Wednesday night when his immigration minister quit just as the government unveiled a new plan aimed at making it easier to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.Robert Jenrick had been among those arguing for a tougher line from Sunak’s government as it tries to get a controversial scheme long snarled in the courts off the ground ahead of the next election.But as the plan was published Wednesday, Home Secretary James Cleverly confirmed in the House of Commons chamber that Jenrick had left government. In a statement minutes later, Jenrick said: “I cannot continue in my position when I have such strong disagreements with the direction of the government’s policy on immigration.”It comes after Jenrick’s old boss at the Home Office, Suella Braverman, took her own swipe at Sunak and warned the Tories faced electoral “oblivion” without a more hardline bill to force through the Rwanda scheme, meant to see asylum seekers who make “dange...

Driver killed after SUV goes off road in Wellesley, crashes through pole and into tree

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

Police in Wellesley say a driver was killed after their SUV went off of Route 9 and struck a utility pole and a tree Wednesday morning.The Wellesley Police Department said first responders were called in around 7:15 a.m. after receiving a 911 call for a crash on Route 9 westbound, near Cedar Street.Authorities said officers arrived to find an SUV had gone off of the roadway before striking a utility pole, shearing it at the base before crashing into a tree.Image provided by the Wellesley Police Department.According to police, the driver was found to be unresponsive and was the only person inside the SUV, with officials determining no other vehicles were involved in the crash.The victim was later taken to Newton Wellesley Hospital where they were declared dead shortly after 8 a.m.Throughout the morning, Route 9 westbound was reduced to one lane as an investigation got underway and personnel with the Wellesley Municipal Light Plant replaced the pole.No additional details on the crash ...

Holiday Baking 2023: 3 new cookbooks to inspire the perfect cookie platter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

Looking for ways to boost your cookie-baking skills this holiday season? We paged through three hot new baking cookbooks to help and the results — Scandinavian honey cookies with chocolate, gingerbread and coconut almond slice-and-bake butter cookies — are sure to impress at your next holiday party or cookie exchange.But there’s more where these recipes came from. Here’s what to expect from the pages of these new baking-centric volumes.‘Scandinavian from Scratch’ by Nichole AccettolaScandinavian from Scratch is a cookbook by Nichole Accettola, the chef and owner behind Kantine, a Scandinavian cafe and bakery in San Francisco. (Courtesy Anders Schønnemann/Ten Speed Press)For guidance on what to bake when it’s cold out, why not seek guidance from the folks who weather some of the gnarliest winters out there, the Scandinavians?Nichole Accettola, the chef-owner behind San Francisco’s Kantine, a Scandinavian bakery and cafe, offers more than 60 recipes in her new cookbook, which was insp...

Nurse shortages are set to get even worse with mass US visa delays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:44 GMT

Katia Dmitrieva | (TNS) Bloomberg NewsErica DeBoer, the chief nurse at America’s largest rural health network, thought she could finally offer some relief for her overworked staff and thousands of patients. More than 160 reinforcement nurses were supposed to arrive over the coming months across Sanford Health’s Midwest facilities from as far away as Manila and Lagos, Nigeria.But now, only 36 are coming — if they’re lucky.The U.S. is in the midst of a visa retrogression, when a surge in demand collides with annual caps, jamming up the processing queue. The delays are particularly bad for the main visa category that hospitals use. Today, government officials are only just starting to work on filings made two years ago — right around the time when many hospitals began hiring foreign nurses and applying for their visas.Experts estimate that at least 10,000 foreign nurses have been delayed indefinitely — a holdup that’s almost certain to worsen an already dire national shortage. After th...