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The Rockets have traded Kevin Porter to the Thunder, and Oklahoma City will waive him

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

ADDS (AP) — Kevin Porter Jr.’s time with the Houston Rockets is over, after the team agreed Tuesday to trade him and a pair of second-round draft picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder.The Thunder announced the deal Tuesday and said Porter, whose future in the NBA is uncertain because of serious legal issues, “will be waived immediately.” Oklahoma City also sent Victor Oladipo and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl to Houston.Porter is owed nearly $15.9 million for this season and an additional $1 million that was guaranteed for next season. The Rockets already had told Porter that he was essentially barred from the team after his arrest on domestic violence charges last month.Porter was arrested after an alleged attack on his girlfriend, former WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick, in a New York City hotel room Sept. 11. One assault charge against Porter was dropped this week for insufficient evidence, the New York Post reported; he still faces a strangulation charge and another assault charge in relation...

¿Quién es Raoul Cortez? El Doodle de Google recuerda al pionero de los medios hispanos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

El Doodle de Google conmemora este martes la vida y el legado de Raoul A. Cortez, pionero de la radio y la radiodifusión en español en Estados Unidos y activista de derechos civiles, en el aniversario 118 de su nacimiento.Cortez, originario de México, fundó en Estados Unidos la primera estación de radio en español y la primera estación de televisión dirigida a hispanos.El artista Rafael López, quien también es mexicano-estadounidense, fue invitado a diseñar el Doodle con el que pretendía representar “los diversos papeles que desempeñó Cortez en la promoción de la cultura latina y los derechos civiles en los Estados Unidos”, dijo Google.Cortez nació el 17 de octubre de 1905 en Veracruz, México, y su familia emigró a San Antonio, Texas, cuando él era joven. En 1946, fundó KCOR-AM, la primera estación de radio totalmente en español del país, propiedad de un hispano y operada por él, como señaló el Salón de la Fama de la Radio de San Antonio. La lanzó con el lema “La V...

Police: Woman asks for help before man drags her away by her hair

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Englewood Police Department asked for the public's help searching for a person in a potential domestic violence incident that happened around 4 p.m. last Thursday.Police said a woman went into a Burger King at 900 W. Hampden Ave. and asked for help. While in the restaurant, a man came in, dragged her out by her hair and left with her in a black Cadillac Escalade.Police were looking for a man in a potential domestic violence incident in Englewood (Credit: Englewood Police Department)Police were looking for a man in a potential domestic violence incident in Englewood (Credit: Englewood Police Department)Police were looking for a man in a potential domestic violence incident in Englewood (Credit: Englewood Police Department)Vehicle wanted in a potential domestic violence incident in Englewood (Credit: Englewood Police Department)Vehicle wanted in a potential domestic violence incident in Englewood (Credit: Englewood Police Department)The Escalade SUV did not have a...

What is Prop HH? Voters to decide on property taxes and TABOR dollars

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Most Colorado voters should get their ballots in the mail sometime this week. Everyone will see two statewide ballot questions. One is garnering a lot of attention because of how it would impact property taxes and TABOR refunds.Property taxes are a major concern for a lot of Coloradans. This spring, many saw sky-high property tax assessments. "We didn't know the severity of the crisis until the very end of session," Colorado Senate President Steve Fenberg said.Prop HH contentious among party linesAs a result, Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado lawmakers presented a plan during the final days of the legislative session to bring Proposition HH to the ballot this November. Fenberg was a prime sponsor of the measure. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox There was contention around the proposal then, with Republicans walking off the floor during the vote to place it on the ballot. There is still a lot of back and forth going on, specifically ar...

What Poland’s Surprise Election Winner Means for the World

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

You’ve got to hunt for news about the most consequential election in Europe this year. Israel has pushed even the war in Ukraine far down the headline scroll.But Sunday’s surprising vote in Poland deserves attention — for what it says about domestic small-d democratic politics and for what it means geopolitically for the U.S. and Europe.Let’s start with the first and the man of the moment: Donald T. — T is for Tusk — who both shares some qualities with his namesake and represents a rejection of Trumpist politics.Tusk led his center-right Civic Platform and two likely coalition partners to an unexpected victory over the ruling Law and Justice Party. Over eight years, PiS, as the governing party is known, blended social Catholic conservatism, nationalism bleeding into jingoism and state patronage. Its detractors saw in it an existential threat to Poland’s thirtysomething democracy and raised doubts about the election’s fairness.We’ve become so downbeat that the outcome came as a shock...

Is an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza a mistake? Grant Shapps won’t say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

The U.K.’s top defense official repeatedly declined to second President Joe Biden’s comment that an Israeli occupation of Gaza would be “a big mistake.”In an interview Tuesday evening, British Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps was given multiple opportunities to agree with Biden’s remark on “60 Minutes.” The president said that Israel had every right to defend itself and target Hamas during a ground invasion of the enclave. But he warned that Israeli forces shouldn’t stay behind after uprooting the militant group to control Gaza’s 2.3 million people.Shapps didn’t side with Biden’s analysis. “Judgments about how that’s done, as long as it’s within international humanitarian laws, are for Israel” to decide, he said at the U.K. Embassy in Washington, D.C. While he wants to see a proportionate Israeli response, “there’s a job to be done.”Asked again if he sided with Biden’s answer, Shapps said he didn’t want to “start advising [Israel] on precisely what they’re operation shoul...

Is an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza a mistake? Britain’s defense chief won’t say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

The U.K.’s top defense official repeatedly declined to second President Joe Biden’s comment that an Israeli occupation of Gaza would be “a big mistake.”In an interview Tuesday evening, British Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps was given multiple opportunities to agree with Biden’s remark on “60 Minutes.” The president said that Israel had every right to defend itself and target Hamas during a ground invasion of the enclave. But he warned that Israeli forces shouldn’t stay behind after uprooting the militant group to control Gaza’s 2.3 million people.Shapps didn’t side with Biden’s analysis. “Judgments about how that’s done, as long as it’s within international humanitarian laws, are for Israel” to decide, he said at the U.K. Embassy in Washington, D.C. While he wants to see a proportionate Israeli response, “there’s a job to be done.”Asked again if he sided with Biden’s answer, Shapps said he didn’t want to “start advising [Israel] on precisely what they’re operation shoul...

The smiling face of Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific: David Cameron

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

LONDON — It is a multi-billion-dollar plan to build a metropolis in the Indo-Pacific which critics fear may one day act as a Chinese military outpost.Now the vast Colombo Port City project has a new champion — former British Prime Minister David Cameron.Cameron has been enlisted to drum up foreign investment in the controversial Sri Lankan project, which is a major part of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative — China’s global infrastructure strategy — and is billed as a Chinese-funded rival to Singapore and Dubai.Cameron flew to the Middle East in late September to speak at two glitzy investment events for Colombo Port City, having visited the waterside site in Sri Lanka in person earlier this year.  His spokesperson said the former PM had had no direct contact with either the Chinese government or the Chinese firm involved. But Cameron’s lobbying for the scheme has drawn severe backlash from critics, who say his activities will aid China in its geopolitical ambiti...

Belgian officials knew all about Brussels terror attack gunman — but were unable to stop him

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities were well aware of the gunman who caused terror in Brussels — and yet he was still able to shoot two people dead.The attacker — who killed two Swedish football fans on Monday evening — had been on the authorities’ radar since 2016 over his alleged jihadist ties, Belgian officials admitted Tuesday. The country’s law enforcement agencies were notified several times that the man was potentially dangerous. He was also living in the country illegally and should have been kicked out following the denial of his request for asylum in 2020.Instead, he went on the rampage, managing a night on the run before being shot dead by police on Tuesday morning.The gunman lived “below the waterline” only to emerge from his hideout to strike in a “cowardly” fashion late Monday, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Tuesday afternoon after a meeting of the country’s National Security Council. The story of the Tunisian-born gunman reveals the shortc...

Hamas says it’s closely coordinating war’s next moves with Hezbollah in Lebanon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:42:00 GMT

BEIRUT — Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah are closely coordinating their next steps in fighting against Israel, a senior Hamas representative in Lebanon told POLITICO on Tuesday, just hours after Tehran warned of “preemptive action” against Israel.Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, the head of Hamas’ political bureau in Beirut, insisted Gaza-based Hamas had not given its ally Hezbollah any advance notice of its attacks against Israel on October 7, which killed more than 1,400 people. Despite this, however, he described a continual cooperation between the two groups, stressing Hezbollah was now “geared for a major war” against Israel in the north, while Hamas would burst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “dream” of driving it out of Gaza.The remarks will heighten fears the conflict in the Middle East could be about to spill onto two fronts and engulf Lebanon, particularly if Israel launches a ground invasion of Gaza, where its bombardments ...