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2023 NBA Draft Selections

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

ThursdayFIRST ROUND1. San Antonio, Victor Wembanyama, c, Metropolitans 92 (France).2. Charlotte, Brandon Miller, f, Alabama.3. Portland, Scoot Henderson, g, G-League Ignite.4. Houston, Amen Thompson, g, Overtime Elite.5. Detroit, Ausar Thompson, g, Overtime Elite.6. Orlando, Anthony Black, g, Arkansas.7. a-Indiana, Bilal Coulibaly, f, Metropolitans 92 (France).8. b-Washington, Jarace Walker, f, Houston.9. Utah, Taylor Hendricks, f, UCF.10. Dallas, Carson Wallace, g, Kentucky.Proposed Tradesa-Indiana from Washington.b-Washington from Indiana.MORESource

Denver weather: Severe storm warning until 9 p.m

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather saw another day of severe storms before dry, hot days return to the forecast.A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties until 9 p.m.Weather tonight: Storm, flood watch Storms were strong once again on Thursday afternoon and evening, a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day. Some turned severe with large hail and strong winds. Tornado in Highlands Ranch damages buildings, downs trees The strongest storms were expected between 2-6 p.m.However, it will be best to keep cars in the garage through Tuesday evening. Denver is under a severe thunderstorm watch through 9 p.m. and a flood watch until midnight.A slight risk is in place (yellow) for the Front Range and plains for large hail and strong wind.The Front Range will dry out late Thursday night, with temperatures falling into the 50s. Weather tomorrow: Drying outFriday will be hot and dry with temperatures hitting the mid-80s. There will be a 10% chance for storms on...

Couple in Lambo robbed outside SW Miami-Dade home; victims chase armed crook, leading to shots fired

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

An alarming ambush near the driveway of their Southwest Miami-Dade home prompted a couple to turn the tables on an armed robber, triggering a car chase that led to shots fired.It was a morning from hell for the Gonzalez family.Speaking with 7News on Thursday, the couple said they were robbed just outside their home while on their way to work.“I gave him the chain,” said Peter Gonzalez.Gonzalez said he was stuck up for his jewelry feet from his front door and garage.“He got right next to my car,” he said.Cellphone video captured the immediate aftermath of the robbery.“Call the police!” Gonzalez screamed to his wife in Spanish.Gonzalez said it started when they were cut off while in their Lamborghini and nearly hit at the stop sign at Southwest 77th Street, near 127th Avenue.When Gonzalez got out of his vehicle, the robber exited his car.“He pulled out the gun, pointing it at me, the gun, right in front of my house,” said Gonzalez.With h...

Remembering Surfside: 92-year-old Hilda Noriega’s legacy honored by grandson in new book about healing after heartbreak

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

Saturday marks two years since the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside. As 7’s Karen Hensel reports, one victim’s family member is turning his pain into purpose.Pictures captured a cherished moment between Mike Noriega and his grandmother.Mike Noriega: “My grandmother would cook dinner for us and spend time with us, and she was in so many ways like my second mom.”Ninety–two-year-old Hilda Noriega lived on the sixth floor.Within minutes of the tower collapsing at 1:22 a.m. on June 24, 2021, Mike got a phone call.Mike Noriega: “My mom said to me, ‘Mike, your father just got a phone call from someone. In your grandmother’s building, she was irate, she was fanatical.'”Mike and his dad Carlos, who is the North Bay Village Police chief, raced to Surfside.Mike didn’t know it then, but that night would begin a two-year-long journey of hope, heartbreak and eventually healing.Mike Noriega: “When you go through a brok...

Qatargate is bruised, not broken (yet)

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

The director has quit and skepticism is mounting — but even a faltering show must go on. That’s the mantra coming from the Belgian legal community after the investigative judge leading the so-called Qatargate probe — a generational case involving bags of cash and foreign bribery allegations at the European Parliament — stepped aside amid conflict-of-interest questions.The exceedingly rare move has cast a pallor over the whole affair, even though the authorities say the step was only taken out of extreme caution to head off any sense of impropriety, not because of any actual problems. They made the decision after it emerged that Michel Claise, the investigative judge, had a son involved in a medicinal cannabis business with the son of an MEP linked to the case, Maria Arena.The suspects and their lawyers have predictably pounced, arguing much of the case now needs to be re-examined. To start, they want to know if the connection explains why Arena has stayed out of jail ...

Out on the piss with macho man Emmanuel Macron

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. If Declassified ever gets around to writing the book “How to be a Politician and not an Idiot, by an Idiot,” there would be an entire section on how to ingratiate yourself with the electorate, no matter how much you despise them.The main takeaway would be to never, ever pretend to be something you are not. How many people watched footage of Emmanuel Macron downing a bottle of beer in 17 seconds in a rugby team dressing room and thought “now there’s a real man’s man, a macho guy, a bro, and definitely not a former Rothschild banker who probably has peasants spoon-feeding him caviar on his chaise longue of an evening.” Macron’s beer-swigging has been criticized, with Sandrine Rousseau, an MP for the Greens, tweeting that it was “toxic masculinity in political leadership in one image.” His choice of beer — Corona — has also raised the question of whether he’s courting the righ...

Keir Starmer’s dark secret: A brush with the French police over illegal ice creams

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

LONDON — He’s been dubbed “Mr. Boring,” the squeaky-clean ex-lawyer who believes politics is a serious business.But Labour leader Keir Starmer, who was once Britain’s chief prosecutor and hopes to become U.K. prime minister next year, has an unlikely skeleton in his closet — a brush with the French police over the illegal sale of ice creams.Trying to raise cash during a lads’ holiday to the French Riviera as a student in the early 1980s, Starmer and his pals were spotted by cops who were clamping down on illegal beach sellers. John Murray, a university friend of Starmer’s who was also on the ill-fated trip, told POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast that while he himself was arrested, Starmer — who served as U.K. director of public prosecutions (DPP) from 2008-2013 — was not. The young Starmer did have his contraband ice creams confiscated but appears to have escaped without further penalty.Murray revealed the friends headed to the south of France...

Greek election looks set to strengthen PM Mitsotakis’ power

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

ATHENS — Greece’s conservatives are set for a resounding victory in Sunday’s elections with leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis destined to return to the prime minister’s office in a far stronger position to advance investor-friendly reforms.After heading to polls on May 21, Greeks will now do it all over again. New Democracy last month notched up a double-digit lead over its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, but fell short of achieving an outright majority. This time, a new electoral system will reward the leading party with up to 50 bonus seats. POLITICO’s Poll of Polls puts the backing for New Democracy on 42 percent support, more than twice the support for Syriza on 20 percent. “Mitsotakis will be dominant with a comfortable majority,” said Petros Ioannidis, political analyst founder of the firm About People. “Usually when you win elections for the first time you have a honeymoon period, in the second term you don’t. The paradox here is that, because the oppositi...

How Italy is using surrogacy to erode LGBTQ+ rights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

Andrea Carlo is a British-Italian researcher and journalist living in Rome. His work has been published in various outlets, including TIME, Euronews and the Independent. “A fight for civil rights . . . can never be used to support demonstrations aiming to promote illegal behaviors, in this specific case the practice of ‘renting out wombs.’”It is with these words that the president of Rome’s Lazio region — and colleague of right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — withdrew his official endorsement of Pride, on the eve of the celebratory march that took place in the Italian capital earlier this month.The announcement inevitably sparked fury among the country’s progressive camp, with one member of parliament and leading LGBTQ+ activist calling it “state homophobia.” It’s “a farce,” stated another.But one aspect that most criticisms have overlooked is the bigger playbook that Italy’s right-wing government is taking a page out of — namely, the surrogacy smokescreen — and how it’s being ...

Second person arrested in connection with child pornography case at Tyngsboro daycare

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:55 GMT

Two people were arrested Thursday in connection with a child pornography case at a Tyngsboro day care, officials said. The US Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts initially announced the arrest of Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, N.H., saying she is accused of taking nude pictures of children at the Creative Minds Early Learning Center day care, where she was an employee. Nashua police later announced the arrest of Stacie Laughton, a former New Hampshire state representative, in the case.From May, 2022 to June of this year, the US Attorney’s Office said Groves allegedly took nude pictures of children at Creative Minds and sent the photos to someone she was previously in an intimate relationship with.Groves, the US Attorney’s office said, allegedly took the pictures during routine diaper changes. Investigators said they found 2,500 text messages on Groves’ phone talking about the exchange of images, as well as at least four sexually explicit photos of children aroun...