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Royal Sonesta, first new hotel on Capitol Hill in 40 years, has opened

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

Royal Sonesta‘s new D.C. location, the first hotel to arrive on Capitol Hill since 1984, opened its doors Sept. 1, with a French bistro from a busy D.C. restaurant group.The 274-room hotel is part of a recently redeveloped 10-story office building at 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW, near Union Station.The Royal Sonesta Washington DC Capitol Hill recently opened with some of the largest rooms in the area. (Courtesy Royal Sonesta)The hotel includes Bistro du Jour, the second French bistro for D.C. restaurant developer Knead Restaurants. The original Bistro du Jour is at The Wharf on the Southwest Waterfront. Knead’s other restaurants include Succotash, Mi Vida, Mi Casa, Gatsby and The Grill.The Royal Sonesta Washington, DC Capitol Hill has some of the largest average hotel room sizes in the District, averaging 480 square feet. Room rates are mostly between $200 and $400 a night.The hotel pays homage to the District with art installations, portraits of Supreme Court justices, hi...

Caught on camera: Who dumped this cat without food or water?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver police are looking for a woman who allegedly abandoned a confined cat near a dumpster for several hours without food or water.According to the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, the "unspeakable act" occurred on Aug. 17 at 10:33 a.m. in an alley near 1390 North Emerson St. in the Cap Hill neighborhood. The bulletin was posted on Sept. 5. Naked man enters 2 Edgewater homes, fights with homeowners The animal cruelty case was all caught on camera. An unidentified woman was seen leaving a cat that was trapped in a canvas carrier near a set of dumpsters. The woman then left the scene.Police are looking to identify this woman who allegedly abandoned a cat near a Denver dumpster. (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)Police are looking to identify this woman who allegedly abandoned a cat near a Denver dumpster. (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)According to police, the cat was left there for over six hours, still trapped inside the carrier without food or water.Eventually, police sai...

2 Colorado campuses named among most beautiful in US

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Out of the top 100 most beautiful colleges in the United States, two local universities made the list. College Rover, a college search website, reviewed the top 10 colleges in each state on Yelp and TripAdvisor, and then looked at the number of reviews using the word “beautiful” and compared it to the total number of campus reviews. Here's what the website found: The University of Colorado Boulder is the 15th most beautiful college campus in the U.S. while the University of Denver is ranked 28th. Can Denver go from 90 degrees to 1st freeze? CU Boulder is ranked above the College of Charleston, a school known for its alluring looks. Meanwhile, DU was above Tulane, a historic university made out of white stone and bricks. Here are the top 30 out of the 100 most beautiful colleges in the United States:Davidson CollegeRhodes CollegeUniversity of Puget SoundSewanee: The University of the SouthWashington and Lee UniversityMount St. Mary's UniversityUniversity of Mississ...

Blinken visits Kyiv as he makes the case the US needs to support Ukraine for the long haul

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

(CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv Wednesday on what is his third trip to the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, seeking to double down on US support for Kyiv’s counteroffensive and make the political case back home that the US needs to commit billions of dollars more to help defeat Vladmir Putin.Blinken said the US is “determined to continue to walk side-by-side” with Ukraine when he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, as he called the country’s progress in the counteroffensive “very, very encouraging.”Zelensky said it is always a “great message of support” for Ukraine when US officials visit, noting that this is a “tough period” for his country.The visit comes as Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into its fourth month, with both political and military leaders in Kyiv talking up recent gains, especially in the south of the country, following growing concerns the concerted push on the battlefield has failed to produce resul...

Federal safety regulators push to recall 52 million air bags

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

New York (CNN) — Federal safety regulators are pushing to get 52 million air bags recalled due to the threat that they could explode, severely injuring or even killing a car’s occupants.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a ruptured inflator from these air bags killed at least two people, one in the United States and one in Canada, and caused at least seven serious injuries in US vehicles since 2009, with most occurring since 2016. The air bags were built by ARC and by Delphi between 2000 and 2018. About 11 million of the air bags were manufactured by Delphi under a licensing agreement with ARC.They are included in vehicles built by General Motors, Ford, Stellantis, Tesla, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen. NHTSA did not release exact models containing the air bags, saying that will be determined by the manufacturers. It also did not give an estimate for how many vehicles contain the air bags, since most vehicles have multiple air bags....

Roku is laying off 10% of its workforce

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

New York (CNN) — Roku stock soared higher on Wednesday after the streaming service announced it would lay off 10% of its workforce – about 300 people – in an effort to cut costs.Roku said that in addition to the layoffs, it would slow its pace of hiring, consolidate office space, reduce its outside services and perform “a strategic review of its content portfolio” to save money, in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Shares of Roku (ROKU) surged more than 10% on the news.This is Roku’s third round of layoffs in under a year. The company cut 200 jobs in both March 2023 and in November 2022, respectively. The company expects to incur restructuring charges of $45 million to $65 million.But even as it eliminates the positions of hundreds of workers, Roku said it would bring in more money than it previously expected. The company’s new third quarter forecast anticipates revenues between $835 million and $875 million (excluding the restructur...

Trump is liable in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge rules; January trial will determine damages

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

(CNN) — A federal judge ruled that the jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit will only need to decide how much money Donald Trump will have to pay her, after the judge found the former president was liable for making defamatory statements.The finding is a significant blow to Trump, who is facing numerous criminal indictments and civil lawsuits – many of them coming to a head as he embarks on a presidential campaign.Judge Lewis Kaplan said that a federal jury’s verdict earlier this year against Trump will carry over to the defamation case set to go to trial in January involving statements Trump made in 2019 about Carroll’s sexual assault allegations.Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim.In May after a two-week trial, a jury found Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her when he said in 2022 that he didn’t rape her, didn’t know h...

The Patriots get great news at practice ahead of Sunday’s season opener

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

FOXBORO — The Patriots practiced with a full roster Wednesday, a sign of excellent heath heading into this weekend’s season opener against the Eagles.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Devin McCourty believes Patriots are happy Matt Patricia ‘experiment is over’ New England Patriots | Bill Belichick Patriots to have Jack Jones vs. Eagles, won’t confirm status beyond Week 1 New England Patriots | Callahan: Matt Patricia knows the Patriots better than any ex-coach ever — and they don’t care New England Patriots | Patriots outlook: NFL sources expecting franchise to finish in middle of the pack New England Patriots | Patriots QB Mac Jones reveals that Tom Brady has helped ‘mentor’ him Every member of their 53-man roster and practice squad was present for initial stretching and drills. Wide receiver DeVante Parker appeared limited for a second straight practice. Vetera...

Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Wednesday launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice being targeted after she criticized GOP-drawn legislative electoral maps and spoke in favor of abortion rights.After investing nearly $10 million in electing Justice Janet Protasiewicz, the effort is meant to protect what Democrats hailed as a major political victory. The judge’s election tipped the balance of power in the state Supreme Court, giving Democrats the upper hand in state’s fights over abortion and redistricting. “Republicans are holding a political nuclear football,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler said in reference to impeachment. He said the threat amounted to “political extortion.”But Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who has been the most outspoken about possible impeachment, said on WISN-AM that Democrats were “trying to intimidate us” but Republicans...

Vancouver-based writer John Vaillant among contenders for a prestigious non-fiction prize

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:34:04 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Books about the perilous state of our world, our food and our relationship with technology are in the running for Britain’s leading non-fiction book award, the Baillie Gifford Prize.The 13-book long list announced Wednesday includes Vancouver-based John Vaillant’s look at the reality of climate change, “Fire Weather”; Chris van Tulleken’s dietary warning “Ultra Processed People”; and “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.Best-selling American author David Grann is nominated for the stirring seafaring yarn “The Wager,” while physician-writer Siddhartha Mukherjee is in the running with “The Song of the Cell.”British journalist Hannah Barnes is on the list for “Time to Think,” which charts the demise of Britain’s controversial Tavistock gender clinic for children.Other contenders examine key moments in history, including Tania Branigan’s look at China’s Cultural Revolution, “Red Memory,” and Kat...