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Chase Kalisz joins six-timers worlds club with runner-up finish at US national championships

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Add another member to the six-timers club.Chase Kalisz became the seventh American swimmer to make a half-dozen world championship teams with a runner-up finish in the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. nationals.The 29-year-old Kalisz will be heading to the worlds in Fukuoka, Japan, next month, joining Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Natalie Coughlin, Katie Ledecky, Elizabeth Beisel and Nathan Adrian in the elite group.Ledecky earned the distinction on the opening night of nationals with a dominating victory in the 800 free. “I’m very proud of my longevity in the sport,” Kalisz said. “It’s not an easy thing, especially in the U.S. I don’t know if I ever would’ve predicted I would go this long, especially doing the 400 IM. But I’m really proud of how everything is going.”Carson Foster won the race that encompasses all four strokes in 4 minutes, 8.14 seconds, edging Kalisz by a mere 0.08. “I want to be like Chase,” Foste...

Rain washes mud and debris onto flooded I-25

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A severe thunderstorm that hit the Denver metro area on Thursday afternoon brought a deluge of rain that flooded Interstate 25 and left a mess in its wake.Plows were clearing dirt and debris that had piled up in the right lanes of southbound I-25, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. CDOT said heavy rain washed it onto the interstate, affecting traffic near West 23rd Avenue. Photos show Coors Field covered in hail after storm in Denver Aerial images from CDOT's interstate cameras showed the mud piled up around 4:30 p.m. Travelers, who were already dealing with localized floods on the interstate, were forced to drive around the affected area. The mud pile was several car lengths long and affected two lanes.Mud and debris on southbound Interstate 25 near West 23rd Avenue (Credit: Colorado Department of Transportation)Mud and debris on southbound Interstate 25 near West 23rd Avenue (Credit: Colorado Department of Transportation)Mud and debris on sou...

Thief steals car off dealership lot, runs over salesman

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A car thief at a dealership ran over a salesman as he fled. Now police are asking for the public's help in finding the suspect.The owner of Cherry Creek Automotive, Justin Franks, said he’s been in the business for over 30 years and has never seen something like this happen. He said it all started when the man entered the lot just before closing time, around 6 p.m. Saturday. Zipline guide protects child from mid-air collision The thief told the salesman he didn't want to test drive any cars but wanted to hear the white Jeep Wrangler's engine. As the salesperson closed the hood, the thief got behind the wheel and took off. Surveillance video shows the employee is forced to ride on the hood before he was thrown off and run over.'He could have lost his life'The employee was left lying in the street, while another employee rushed out to help — making it a near-death experience for the man. "It was very close. Had he fallen any further, he could have lost his life," Fra...

Zipline guide protects child from mid-air collision

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (KDVR) — The parents of a 21-year-old employee at Edge Ziplines and Adventures say they're proud their son helped protect a child on a zipline during a mid-air collision.Jen and her husband, Patrick, who both live in Boston, said they received the call Sunday that their son was being taken to the hospital after a collision while up on a zipline at work. Rain washes mud and debris onto southbound I-25, closing lanes Jen explained that her son, who has worked at the zipline location for around a month, went up to rescue a child stuck on one of the lines.“The headwind was kind of strong, which slowed the kid down coming in," Jen said. "So JP went to rescue him."JP Schiller, a zipliner guide, was injured Sunday during a mid-air collision. (Credit: Jen Schiller)Jen said from there, she understands there was a miscommunication. “Someone else came down the line. In the process, JP saw that person coming down the line and he grabbed the kid and turned around and to...

US actively considering giving cluster munitions to Ukraine

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

The Biden administration is actively considering sending cluster munitions to Ukraine to help Kyiv’s counteroffensive punch through Russia’s defenses, two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the debate said.The discussion to send dual-purpose improved conventional munitions has intensified in recent days as Ukraine’s effort to break through Russia’s frontline has stalled. The belief among some senior U.S. officials is that the munitions could be one of many tools that makes Ukraine’s campaign more successful.Late last year, the administration said it had “concerns” about delivering the munitions to Ukraine, mainly for humanitarian reasons and also the U.S. didn’t assess Ukraine needed them at that point. The administration never ruled out their delivery, but cluster munitions didn’t receive a serious look as there were other priority items to give to Kyiv first.But the internal administration debate over their use has intensified since the sputtering counteroffensive...

‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ flounders as tale of high school angst

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

What is a teenage kraken to do? Well, she could try going away, which I’m sure will happen soon. Dreamworks’ “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” tells the story of a not-quite-human-looking adolescent kraken, which according to one source is an “enormous, mythical sea monster said to appear off the coast of Norway.” In “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” the title character Ruby (Lana Condor) is a “mathlete,” who does not fit in at her seaside high school, which could be because she is blue with fins for ears.Ruby and her somewhat less outlandish best friends, including Margot (Liza Koshy), have made a pact not to attend prom. But when Ruby learns that Margot and the others are going to prom, she has a crisis of identity. You see Ruby, her real-estate sales-working mother Agatha (Toni Collette), father Arthur (Coleman Domingo), who runs a company called Bottled Up, little brother Sam (Blue Chapman) are all krakens. They are no longer kraken-sized because they no longer live in th...

Ghosh: Biden can’t just slip a new Iran deal past Congress

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

If it looks like a deal, and smells like a deal, then Congress has the power to reject it. That is the message lawmakers are sending the White House as administration officials try to strike a new bargain with Iran over its nuclear program.After indirect parleys through Oman, President Biden’s team has agreed to release payments owed to the Islamic Republic that have long been frozen by sanctions. Officials with knowledge of the negotiations have said Tehran has in turn agreed to free three Americans wrongfully detained in Iranian prisons, as it did three Europeans earlier this month. The ransom for the hostages may be in the region of $10 billion, in the form of sanctions waivers that allow Iraq to pay about $2.7 billion it owes Iran for natural-gas shipments, and South Korea to transfer $7 billion for previous oil purchases.More significantly, the U.S. is offering Iran the opportunity to export more oil if it will limit its uranium-enrichment levels and cooperate more fully ...

‘Nimona’ needs more than shape-shifting to succeed

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

Set in a futuristic, medieval fortress kingdom, computer-animated entry “Nimona” is the story of a mysterious shape-shifting teenage girl (voiced by Chloe Grace Moretz) with strangely sharp teeth, who becomes the sidekick of fugitive Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed). A former “knight of the realm,” Ballister appears to have assassinated the Queen (Lorraine Toussaint) just as she touched his shoulder with his sword on kingdom-wide television during his knighthood ceremony. He escapes, but not before Knight Ambrosius (I take no responsibility for these names) Goldenloin (Eugene Lee Yang), Ballister’s love interest, cuts off one of Ballister’s arms. Thanks, dear bro. When we and Nimona first meet fugitive Ballister, he is in his “secret lair,” attaching an artificial, robotic arm to his shoulder.A legend in the kingdom speaks of a hero who rose to destroy a great evil a long time ago. The hero was a young woman named Gloreth. In addition to being gay, Ballister is a person o...

Editorial: Supreme Court puts equality over equity

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

You can have equality. You can equity. But according to the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision banning affirmative action, you can’t have both.The High Court declared that race can’t be a factor in admissions. As the Associated Press reported, the court’s conservative majority effectively overturned cases reaching back 45 years in invalidating admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”Like the Court, reactions were divided along conservative and liberal lines.From the Black conservatives at Project 21: “Today we have a 21st century Brown v. Board moment,” Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper sai...

Shapiro: Hunter Biden story one of scandal, not a caring dad

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed the testimony of an IRS whistleblower who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation. That whistleblower had two revelations to present. First, he said that the federal prosecutor overseeing Hunter’s case told at least six witnesses that he had been blocked by Attorney General Merrick Garland from special counsel status — status that would allow him a free hand in fully investigating Hunter. Second, the whistleblower presented a WhatsApp message between Hunter Biden and a Chinese executive shaking down the executive for cash by leveraging Joe Biden’s presence in the room.“I am sitting here with my father,” Hunter texted, “and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or t...