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Driver says she's 'very lucky' after pole smashes her windshield on I-25

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- It was a close call for a Denver woman who said as she was merging onto Interstate 25, a pole flew toward her car and smashed into her windshield. Fortunately, she wasn't hurt, but knows this could have been avoided if drivers hauling items secured their loads properly. Police searching for driver in deadly crash in Aurora “I really didn’t know what to do," said Jessica Valov. "I was pretty shaken up.”It's hard for Valov to look at the pictures of her damaged car. She knows things could have ended so much worse. “I got really lucky that it didn’t go through my windshield. I’ve heard horror stories," she said. Valov told FOX31 she was traveling on Kalamath Street merging onto I-25 around 6 a.m. Wednesday.“Within like a split two seconds, I just saw the pole hurling at my window and I literally ducked to avoid it," Valov said. She is still trying to figure out how the freak accident happened. “It was a pole, like a foot-and-a-half pole that may be like 3-4 inches i...

Family members ID 3-year-old girl shot and killed in Tamarac hotel amid investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

Loved ones have identified the 3-year-old girl who, police said, was shot and killed in a hotel in Tamarac, as detectives continue to piece together what led to the tragedy.Family members said D’Yonnie Cleveland lost her life in a room at the Extended Stay America on West Commercial Boulevard, near U.S. 441, Saturday morning.Speaking with 7News Sunday night, the child’s aunt, Connie Hafley, said her family is still reeling from the devastating and sudden loss.“We’re just doing the best we can,” she said.Hafley described the moment she learned about the shooting.“I got the call that my niece is gone, but [a family member] called me screaming,” she said.Since then, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies have guarded the first-floor room. The door was taped off after investigators spent hours searching for evidence inside the unit and throughout the parking lot.Neighbors said they heard a single gunshot that echoed through the hotel at around ...

Q&A: Ending HIV in the EU

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

European countries are pioneering techniques to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Yet progress varies widely between countries–and even among communities within the same country.POLITICO Studio sat down with Neil Mulcock, Vice President International Government Affairs at Gilead Sciences, to learn more about the latest best practices for testing, prevention and treatment, and how Europe can move forward to end the epidemic, once and for all.This Q&A is part of POLITICO Telescope: The New AIDS Epidemic, an ongoing exploration of the disease today.Neil Mulcock, vice president international government affairs at Gilead Sciences | via Gilead SciencesQ: What success have we had so far in reducing the spread of HIV?A: We have already made huge advances in fighting this disease. HIV is now a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. People living with HIV who are diagnosed early after infection and start treatment can now live long and healthy lives. And, because medication reduces...

Stalemate best describes the state of war in Ukraine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.”As Russia’s war on Ukraine rages on, neither country is likely to achieve a breakthrough this year — or even next. But that doesn’t mean it will be over soon. Moscow and Kyiv aren’t interested in negotiating an end to the war, or even settling for a frozen conflict.The fighting is bound to continue for a long time.This means the reality of the current stalemate must now inform the West’s strategy toward the conflict. And rather than counting on Ukraine to regain most or all its territory through military means, focus must shift to securing Ukraine’s future in the West.Over the past 11 months, during which both Russia and Ukraine launched major offensives, little more than 500 square miles of territory has changed hands — that’s less than one-fifth of 1 percent of Ukraine’s territory.Debates are now brewing about why this has happ...

A football star, caviar and a water show: Inside Saudi Arabia’s campaign to host the 2030 Expo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

PARIS — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been throwing everything into winning the race to host the glitzy 2030 World Exhibition event as a centerpiece of his sweeping reforms to overhaul the Kingdom’s reputation as a repressive oil exporter. For anyone strolling around Paris, it’s impossible not to run into giant billboards or buses and taxis plastered with advertisements for the Expo. After all, it is in the French capital that Riyadh will face off against Italy and South Korea in a vote on Tuesday. Far from being simply a belle époque legacy — the Eiffel tower was built for the Paris exposition of 1889 — Expos are still big-money opportunities to showcase nations, while generating cash, jobs and a global buzz. MBS’ goal is to convince the world he is pushing an absolute monarchy run by Islamic law in a more socially progressive direction, embracing cutting-edge sectors such as green technology and healthcare. Delegates from 182 countries ...

Israel’s trauma was compounded by talk of an existential threat

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — “Benjamin Netanyahu is not a brave leader,” says Tamir Pardo, a former director of the Mossad intelligence agency. “To make hard decisions for war or for peace, you have to be brave, and he isn’t, and he panics.”That’s how Pardo views his former boss’ reaction to October 7 — as fitting a pattern of behavior he observed first-hand from 2011 to 2016, when Pardo led Israel’s vaunted external intelligence agency.In the days after October 7, “Netanyahu was in a state of panic and heightened alarm by comparing the Hamas attack, however bestial, to the Holocaust,” Pardo says. He faults the Israeli PM for giving the false impression that the country’s very existence was at stake, when in fact it was not.Pardo also blames U.S. President Joe Biden for fueling apprehensions that Israel was facing an existential crisis. Biden did so, the former spy boss claims, by dispatching aircraft carriers to the region, and by tellin...

Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony. The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.Last week’s jaw-dropping constitutional court ruling that effectively rendered the core of the German government’s legislative agenda null and void has left the country in a collective shock. In order to circumvent Germany’s self-imposed deficit strictures, which give governments little room to spend more than they collect in taxes, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition relied on a network of “special funds” outside the main budget. Scholz was convinced the government could tap the money without violating the so-called debt brake. The court, in ...

Tories woo Middle East cash — just not for their beloved Telegraph

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

LONDON — Brexit Britain is open to the world — unless you’re a Dubai-backed fund trying to buy up the governing Tories’ favorite newspaper.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces an awkward dilemma Monday as his much-hyped Global Investment Summit coincides with mounting Conservative unease at the proposed acquisition of the Daily Telegraph — a staple of British conservatism for almost 200 years — to a fund backed by United Arab Emirates state money.Amid mounting calls for an official review of the deal and deep concerns about press freedom, senior Conservative MP David Davis warned “being open for business is not the same as being naive.”But Investment Minister Dominic Johnson told POLITICO on the eve of the summit that Britain needs to avoid being “sentimental about some of our so-called treasured assets” — and signaled he’s relaxed about the deal if the right process is followed.It’s hardly the ideal backdrop as Sunak and other ministers spend the day in Hampton Court Palace, ...

Collision Course: What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church.The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the creation of the largest clean air zone in the Western world through the expansion of restrictions on polluting cars to cover the entire British capital, a city of 8.9 million people. Instead, the gathering was reminiscent of a group of conspirators meeting under siege. “I’m very moved to be here,” said Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, brow furrowed, tone hushed. He praised Khan’s “courage.”Sitting beside the mayor was Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a 53-year-old teacher turned campaigner. She reflected on the tragedy that had turned her into an activist. Just over a decade ago, her daughter Ella died of severe asthma caused by the pollution from the busy road by their home. “She drowned in her ...

Milton firefighter who served in Marines holding clothing drive for homeless veterans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:56 GMT

A Milton Marine veteran and firefighter is hoping to help others who have served stay warm this winter by collecting clothing donations for veterans who are homeless.Matt Clifford is collecting clothing for homeless veterans at locations across Milton after he said he saw a great need in the veteran community.“There’s a growing epidemic of homelessness, especially in the veteran community,” he said. “I believe that any little bit helps.” There are drop-off locations across Milton, including at the fire stations, Quincy College, and Ulin Memorial Rink.“If I can give back to a community that I care so much about, especially the ones who are in need, that’s what matters most to me,” he added.The drive is especially looking for men’s and women’s hats, coats, gloves, blankets, scarves, hand/feet warmers, and winter pants.