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Biden propone más protecciones para los migrantes beneficiarios de la visa H-2A

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

Los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes recibirían una serie de nuevas protecciones en virtud de una propuesta del gobierno de Joe Biden con la que se busca aumentar los requisitos de seguridad en las granjas y aumentar la transparencia sobre cómo estos trabajadores son traídos al país para combatir la trata de personas.La propuesta reformaría el programa de visas H-2A, bajo el cual cientos de miles de inmigrantes, en su mayoría de México, aceptan trabajos estacionales en la industria agrícola estadounidense. El número de personas admitidas en el programa se ha disparado en los últimos años, ya que la rápida contratación después de la pandemia y la baja tasa de desempleo han dejado a muchos agricultores luchando por encontrar trabajadores locales.El año pasado, alrededor de 370,000 personas fueron admitidas con visas H-2A, el doble que en 2016 y cinco veces más que en 2005, dijeron funcionarios del Departamento de Trabajo. Sin embargo, a medida que la popularidad del programa ha crec...

Bear spotted on CU campus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- On Tuesday morning, a bear was spotted in a tree on the University of Colorado Boulder's campus near the engineering center.CU Boulder Police and the Department of Wildlife roped off the northwest side of the engineering center next to the math building and are monitoring the scene. The approximate location of the bear on CU campus at 10:19 a.m., Sept. 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of CU Boulder) Bear forces closures on CU Boulder campus At 10:15 a.m., CU asked students to avoid the area and not to call dispatch because CUPD was already on the scene.At 10:55 a.m., the bear was seen napping in the tree. CUPD and the Department of Wildlife are planning to watch the bear and scare the bear away from campus later on in the day when there are fewer students on campus. FOX31 will update this post when more information is released about the bear.

Coach Prime speaks ahead of Rocky Mountain Showdown

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Deion Sanders is speaking at the University of Colorado Boulder ahead of the Rocky Mountain Showdown against Colorado State University.On Tuesday at 11 a.m., Coach Prime will be joined by wide receiver Xavier Weaver. FOX31 will stream the press conference live in the player above.Weaver was a standout in the team's big rivalry game against Nebraska, hauling in 10 passes for 170 yards and a score. Celebrities spotted in Boulder for CU vs. Nebraska game The Buffs are buzzing following their second win of the season. For the team's home opener, the Buffs beat the Cornhuskers with a final score of 36-14. The game was sold out with 51,241 people in attendance. It was the highest attendance at Folsom in 15 years, according to the team on social media.The Buffs have now climbed to No. 18 in the AP Top 25 poll, and it's possible they could move up even higher depending on the outcome of the Rocky Mountain Showdown. The Buffs will face the Rams at Folsom Field. The Buffs a...

Intercepted gun part shipment from China leads to bust at Thornton home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A Thornton man was arrested after law enforcement searched his home and found more than a dozen firearms, potentially destructive devices and Nazi memorabilia and drawings.According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado, 36-year-old Dean Fabiano was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.The investigation began after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized a package from China that was labeled "TOYS" and came from a company that had been known to send gun parts and counterfeit merchandise into the United States.According to a criminal complaint, the package contained two Glock switches and was addressed to Fabiano. Neither of the switches, which allow a handgun to operate in a fully automatic fashion, had serial numbers.This was at least the sixth shipment addressed to Fabiano since 2018 which, according to the criminal complaint, came from companies known to ship gun parts into the United States illegally.Fabiano ...

'No credible threat' after lockdown at AdventHealth in Castle Rock

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — AdventHealth Castle Rock was on lockdown Tuesday morning afters reports of an armed person wearing body armor in the parking lot.The report was made around 9 a.m. and the hospital as well as several nearby businesses and area schools were placed on lockdown. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Castle Rock police tweeted around 10:30 a.m. that there was no evidence that it was a credible threat.That same tweet said schools were returning to normal operation and other businesses were expected to as well.Castle Rock police officers will remain in the area to follow up on additional leads, the department said on Twitter.

BSO: Teacher cut by student at Deerfield Beach school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

A juvenile student cut a teacher at a school in Deerfield Beach on Tuesday morning, officials said. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue arrived at Bright Horizons School, located at 3901 NE 1st Terrace, around 9 a.m. According to the school district, the male ninth-grade student cut the teacher with a sharp object. The injured teacher received immediate medical care for a laceration to the ear and was transported to Broward Health North with non-life-threatening injuries. A crime scene unit was pulled into the parking lot while deputies made sure there was no other threat to campus.The BSO school resource officer and school staff detained the juvenile male suspect on campus and the school is currently on a Secure status. BSO’s Threat Management Unit will conduct a thorough investigation.According to Broward County Schools, “Bright Horizons Center is a specialized school servicing students with disabilities that require intense support.” The...

Man saves driver trapped inside burning car

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

SEMINOLE, Florida (WFTS) — Returning to the parking lot of Second Time Around Consignment in Seminole, Travis DuPont couldn’t help but get chills.“I’m like right here talking to the guy and then reaching in and pulling him out,” he explained, gesturing to where he was standing just a little more than a day later. “I’m just thankful that I got him out of there just in time. If I was any earlier, I would have missed him. If I was any later, you know, he might have not been here,” he said.Earlier Sunday morning, right before 3:30, as DuPont was driving home from work, he saw a flash and a pop in the distance.“I turned my radio off my car immediately. And I’m just trying to listen and see if there’s like any smoke. I was looking up. And as I was approaching, looking up at the telephone pole. I happen to look down, and I see the man’s car almost in the entire shopping center smashed in. And I just immediately pulled ...

Republican chief gambles on Biden impeachment probe as shutdown looms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy used a 4-minute Tuesday statement to plunge the House GOP toward an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. But he won’t know until Wednesday if he’s won over his toughest audience: his own members.While announcing that he will move Republicans toward a formal impeachment probe, McCarthy also signaled that he’ll sidestep the biggest challenge he had faced — locking down a majority of Republican votes for one. In a U-turn from his previous pledge to require a vote on the floor, McCarthy said Tuesday that he would be “directing” committees to “to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.”A McCarthy spokesperson confirmed the GOP leader doesn’t plan to hold a vote to launch the impeachment inquiry: “Speaker announced an inquiry. The inquiry is now open.”What was left unsaid: It’s not clear that he has majority support for the very impeachment inquiry he told his members to open. That’s thanks to multiple GOP members, largely centrists, who are...

In her State of the Union, von der Leyen should swap pragmatism for principles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

Sam van der Staak is the director for Europe at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver her fourth — and final — State of the European Union speech before next June’s elections. But instead of courting voters with a laundry list of promises, she should place upholding democratic values at the center of her address.When von der Leyen introduced her team in 2019, she termed it a “geopolitical Commission.” Dreaming of boosting the EU’s role on the world stage, she intended to wheel and deal with the world’s superpowers — be they good or bad — and pursue a policy of realpolitik to help the bloc survive in a world increasingly run by autocrats and populists.However, her Commission simultaneously launched its six priorities focused on promoting fundamental EU values, including defending democracy, protecting rule of law and supporting a rules-based global order. And this split vision has left...

Putin’s 4 hottest takes in Vladivostok speech 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

Vladimir Putin’s been shooting his mouth off again.The belligerent Russian president was back on the warpath Tuesday in Vladivostok, firing off hot takes about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the Olympics and Britain’s help for Ukraine. Speaking at the pauper’s version of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s Far East, Putin pontificated on all sorts of topics, while he waited for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to arrive on his armored train. We took the temperature of Putin’s latest remarks.   On Trump “Everything that is happening with Trump, this is persecution for political reasons of one’s political rival,” Putin blasted. Take that, American judiciary! For Putin, the four criminal cases against former President Donald Trump — who faced scrutiny over his personal ties to Russia during his time in the White House — are nothing but a witch hunt, showing “the rottenness of the American political system.” That’s quite a take for the Russian pr...