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2 decades later, consequences of smoking signs to be posted at tobacco retailers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — New signage could be coming to your local gas station and convenience stores, and it would be posted near the cigarette counter.While the U.S. has made great progress in reducing smoking, 11.5% of adults, or 28.3 million, still smoke cigarettes.So why now?This all stems back from a lawsuit filed by the Clinton administration back in 1999.The initial result was a 2006 federal court ruling that said the major cigarette companies had violated federal anti-racketeering laws by what the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids calls “decades of deception and lies about the hazards of their products.” Thornton mayor granted permanent protection order Under this court order, tobacco companies were ordered to post signs highlighting the deadly consequences of smoking at 220,000 retail stores across the U.S.However, FOX31 was told the tobacco companies put all their resources into appeals. Over the course of 16 years, they have fought this requirement with four different appeals and...

What can you do if your AC breaks in your rental unit?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- No one likes a broken air conditioner. It's something that everyone dreads, especially during the summer, but it does happen.Of course if you're a homeowner, you're the one on the hook for setting up those repairs. But if you're a renter, things are a bit different. Does your landlord have to provide AC in Colorado? Apartments are not required to provide tenants with air conditioning under Colorado's habitability law or Denver's housing code.However, if you had one when your lease started and it breaks, you don't need to sweat it -- literally or figuratively.First, contact your landlordThe most obvious first step is to contact either your landlord or maintenance, depending on where you live.In a perfect world, this is all you would have to do to get it fixed. However, that isn't the case for some. Thornton couple without air-conditioning since May With summer temperatures nearing the triple digits, you might wonder if there's anything you can do to push the pro...

Naked man with knife at Garden of the Gods taken to hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KXRM) — A man has been taken to the hospital after Colorado Springs Police Department officers had to separate him from a knife at Garden of the Gods on Monday.At around 5:03 p.m., officers were called to a trail in Garden of the Gods near Columbia Road and Garden Drive after a park ranger had reported a naked man possibly high on something with a knife. Suspect killed in shootout with Englewood police When officers arrived, the man had cut his hand and was covered in blood. CSPD said officers tried to negotiate with the man but he was not responding. Officers were able to pin the man to the ground and ultimately get the kitchen knife away from him.The man was taken to the hospital with multiple knife injuries. No officers were injured during the incident.

China ‘complicit’ in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, MI6 chief tells POLITICO

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

PRAGUE — China and its communist ruler Xi Jinping are “absolutely complicit” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6) said at a rare public appearance hosted by POLITICO in Prague Wednesday.Richard Moore — known in the intelligence community as “C” — also blamed China for enabling the brutal actions of Myanmar’s military junta and warned of threats to other countries from Chinese “data traps” and technological advances.He said MI6 now devotes more resources to tackling China than anything else.“When Putin invaded Ukraine, the Chinese very clearly supported the Russians,” Moore told POLITICO executive editor Anne McElvoy. “They have completely supported the Russians diplomatically, they’ve abstained in key votes at the United Nations, they’ve absolutely cynically repeated all the Russian tropes, particularly in places like Africa and Latin America — blaming NATO and all of this stuff.”But this support has come at a cost to Vl...

UK spy chief: Putin ‘under pressure’ at home after ‘humiliating’ deal with Prigozhin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

Vladimir Putin is “under pressure” at home following an aborted mutiny by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin that resulted in the Russian president having to cut a “humiliating” deal to “save his skin,” the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service told POLITICO.Richard Moore said that Prigozhin’s uprising was indicative of “deep fractures” within the Russian elite and that Putin had to realize something was “deeply rotten” in his country, even if he could not speak to the Russian leader’s current mental state.The spy chief, who was speaking at a POLITICO event hosted by the British embassy in Prague, also appealed to Russian citizens who are disillusioned by the leadership to get in touch with the British security service.“Prigozhin started off as a traitor at breakfast. He had been pardoned by supper and then a few days later he was invited for tea,” said Moore, who became chief of the secretive agen...

MI6 chief Richard Moore on Ukraine and the future of intelligence gathering

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast In an exclusive interview for POLITICO’s forthcoming podcast Power Play, Richard Moore, chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service — MI6 — speaks to Anne McElvoy about how the culture of agencies like MI6 is changing.Recorded in Prague, a city that shaped the outcome of the Cold War, Moore shares revealing insights into ...

UK spy agency tools up on AI to counter China, its chief says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

BRUSSELS — The United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, is in a race to use artificial intelligence to outsmart adversaries and stop them from abusing the technology, the agency’s chief said Wednesday.MI6 boss Richard Moore told POLITICO in an interview that officers in his service “are combining their skills with AI and bulk data” for intelligence work, including to “identify and disrupt the flow of weapons to Russia for use against Ukraine.” The British agency is having to learn how to master new technologies like AI because adversaries are doing the same, in ways that threaten the U.K. and allies, Moore told POLITICO in a rare interview at the British ambassador’s residence in Prague.“There’s absolutely no doubt that some of our adversaries will be prepared to develop AI in ways which are reckless and dangerous … That worries us,” he warned.“China has added to its immense datasets at home by hoovering up others abroad and the Chinese aut...

IRS whistleblowers will testify to Congress as they claim ‘slow-walking’ of the Hunter Biden case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

By FARNOUSH AMIRI (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — Whistleblowers claiming the Justice Department improperly interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden will testify before Congress on Wednesday as House Republicans accelerate their probes into the president and his family.Leaders of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees will lead a hearing with two Internal Revenue Service employees — Greg Shapley and an as-yet-unnamed “whistleblower x” — who claim there was a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” into Hunter Biden, including delayed enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.It will be the first public testimony from the two IRS agents assigned to the federal case into President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, which was focused on tax and gun charges. The second agent, whose name was withheld in interview transcripts released by Republicans, is expected to have his identity rev...

Medicare should come with these 4 warning labels

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

By John Rossheim | NerdWalletYou can think of enrolling in Medicare as an enormous dinner out with very filling starters. But before you order, you must choose one of two menus: Do you prefer Original Medicare or Medicare Advantage?Original Medicare starts with two courses of alphabet soup: Medicare Parts A, B and D followed by your choice of Medigap supplemental insurance plan types: Plans A, B, D, G, K, L, M and N.Go for the other menu, Medicare Advantage, and you’ll get a blue-plate special bundling together the coverage of Parts A, B and D. But from there, the options can still overwhelm. Those from Ohio, for example, can choose among 216 Medicare Advantage plans offered by 20 insurers.Given all this complexity, many first-time enrollees feel uncomfortably full — at least their heads do — before they even address the big question: How can they ensure 5-star health care for the rest of their lives?The key is to avoid a handful of fundamentally bad choices that can only be reverse...

Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron picks conservative senator as running mate in race for governor

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:47 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Daniel Cameron selected state legislator Robby Mills as his running mate Wednesday in Kentucky’s race for governor, turning to a steadfast conservative with a record of shepherding pro-coal and anti-transgender legislation that fits into his campaign themes.Cameron, the state’s attorney general, introduced Mills to the campaign at a news conference at state GOP headquarters.Choosing from a deep GOP bench, Cameron ended weeks of speculation about his lieutenant governor pick since emerging as his party’s gubernatorial nominee in May to challenge Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Cameron adds a state senator to the ticket whose resume includes running his family business, ousting Democratic incumbents and sponsoring bills popular with Republicans.Mills, 56, represents a district in western Kentucky — a region that has shifted heavily toward the GOP in recent years. The sprawling region is seen by Cameron’s campaign as crucial to its strat...