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Met Opera, Lincoln Center Theater commission work about detained Ukrainian children

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukrainian composer has been commissioned to write an opera about mothers from that country going into Russia to rescue their forcibly detained children.The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater said Monday that 42-year-old Maxim Kolomiiets will compose the work to a libretto by George Brant, whose “Grounded” with composer Jeanine Tesori premieres at the Washington National Opera on Oct. 28 and travels to the Met in the autumn of 2024. Met general manager Peter Gelb hopes the company can present the new work by 2027 or ’28.The story is fictional but based on events in Ukraine and The Hague. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on March 17 for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine.Gelb said discussions began last fall with Ukraine first lady Olena Zelenska when she visited New York and Kolomiiets was picked from among 72 applicat...

How students are developing solutions to the problem of campus sexual and gender-based violence

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

Rebecca Hall, Queen’s University, OntarioSome universities have removed course information from public websites as part of efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, following the stabbing attack this past summer on June 28 at the University of Waterloo.Police recently added an additional charge of attempted murder to previous charges faced by a man accused of entering a classroom and stabbing three people in a gender studies class. Police believe the attack was motivated by hate related to gender expression and gender identity.While institutional responses pertaining to increasing security or surveillance technology are important, we can’t build a wall big enough, or an alarm system sharp enough, to protect students from hate, patriarchy or rape culture.And in some cases, responses like added policing can lead to increased violence, especially for Black, queer, trans, Indigenous, poor or non-binary people.As one response to the problem of gender-based violence o...

Photos: 1st snowfall on Colorado peaks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It's starting to look like winter on top of some Colorado peaks. Longs PeakLongs Peak, which sits at 14,259 feet, recorded snow just before 7 a.m. Monday. Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Chris Tomer said this was the peak's first snow of the season.The first snow of the season has fallen on Longs Peak on Sept. 11, 2023. (National Park Service)Temperatures on the peak reached 38 degrees with mostly cloudy skies and light winds. Be sure to check the weather forecast before you hike this fall, Longs Peak isn't the only snow-covered mountain.Breck's Five PeaksMother Nature showed a "sneak peak" of the fresh dusting on Breck’s Five Peaks. Vail Resorts said this is their official first snow of the season.Snow across Breck’s Five Peaks (Sarah Mclear, Breckenridge Ski Resort) Will it snow in Denver in September? Pikes PeakSnow covered another 14er Monday morning. The Pikes Peak summit had white-out conditions with the temperature just above 40 degrees. Snow on Pikes Peak (P...

Commerce City police clear car in explosives threat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Commerce City Police evacuated businesses while they investigate a car that was allegedly rigged to explode.At 11:11 a.m. Monday, Commerce City Police Department said officers are in the area of East 49th Avenue. The area is west of a large truck stop.Police said a suspect is in custody after claiming the car he was in was rigged to explode. Nearby businesses were evacuated. Police later said no bombs were found in the vehicle. Aurora family denied $30K claim after pothole totals car Traffic is being impacted, East 49th Avenue is closed between Pontiac and Olive Street.Police are asking everyone to avoid the area.

Photos: Remembering one of Colorado's deadliest floods

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Ten years ago, on Sept. 11, 2013, the Front Range experienced one of Colorado's worst floods that covered 4,500 square miles -- more than ten times the size of Rocky Mountain National Park.The rain started on Sept. 9 after a week of hot weather, just like September's forecast this year. The heaviest rain began the evening of Sept. 11 and lasted for 30 hours. After that lighter rainfall continued until the 16th.What happened:Larimer County Office of Emergency Management recorded a timeline of events:By 7:30 p.m. on the 11th, rockslides began in Golden and flash flood warnings in Boulder County and some of Larimer County. By 10 p.m. flood sirens went off in Boulder and CU students were evacuated. ‘Mountain Strong’: Estes Park cafe remembers deadly 2013 floods 2013 flood (Photo courtesy of Larimer County Office of Emergency Management)2013 flood (Photo courtesy of Larimer County Office of Emergency Management)2013 flood (Photo courtesy of Larimer County Office of Em...

Sean Payton looks back on Week 1 loss to Raiders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There is a slim margin between success and failure in the NFL.Just ask Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton.“We're going to be in a lot of these close games and there is a fine line of winning and losing,” said Payton after his team fell in the season opener to the Las Vegas Raiders with a score of 17-16. “You want to click up close games, and pretty soon you get used to winning the close games.”For many in Broncos Country, this sounds like deja vu. Denver lost nine games by fewer than eight points in 2022. Big penalties and special teams issues lead to Broncos’ loss to Raiders in coach Sean Payton’s debut The Broncos had only six offensive possessions in the game Sunday, a uniqueness Payton noted. However, 10 penalties and a lack of big offensive plays ultimately doomed the Broncos.Payton said safety Caden Sterns and tight end Greg Dulcich are having MRIs. Sterns injured his knee while Dulcich injured his hamstring. NFL Network reports that Sterns is likely to mi...

FDA signs off on updated Covid-19 vaccines that target circulating variants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech. The updated vaccines are each approved for people 12 and older and are authorized under emergency use for individuals 6 months through 11 years old. As part of the FDA’s update, the original bivalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States.“Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,” Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a news release Monday. “The public can be assured that these updated vaccines have met the agency’s rigorous scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality. We very much encourage those who are eligible to consider getting vaccinated.”The mRNA vaccines have been u...

Number of billion-dollar weather disasters in US blows through annual record with four months left in the year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

(CNN) — It’s been a record-smashing year for the most expensive weather and climate disasters in the United States this year after severe storms, the deadly Maui wildfire and Hurricane Idalia tipped the scales last month.With four months still left in the year, the US has been hit with 23 disasters that each cost at least $1 billion, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, surpassing the previous annual record of 22 events in 2020.This year’s billion-dollar disasters have caused 253 direct and indirect fatalities and have resulted in $57.6 billion in damage, NOAA data shows. That price tag does not yet include Hurricane Idalia.NOAA is still analyzing whether other events, including drought in the South and Midwest and Tropical Storm Hilary, which hit southern California this summer, may have surpassed the billion-dollar mark.The impact of extreme weather is being amplified by decision...

The US marks 22 years since 9/11 with tributes and tears, from ground zero to Alaska

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

By JENNIFER PELTZ and KAREN MATTHEWS (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — From ground zero to small towns, Americans looked back Monday on 9/11 with moments of silence, tearful words and appeals to teach younger generations about the terror attacks 22 years before.“For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody else moves on. And you find a way to go forward, but that day is always happening for you,” Edward Edelman said as he arrived at New York’s World Trade Center to honor his slain brother-in-law, Daniel McGinley. President Joe Biden was due at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska. His visit, en route to Washington from a trip to India and Vietnam, is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes crashed into the trade center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, in an attack that reshaped American foreign pol...

Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson was the buyer who paid $3.5M for Theo Epstein’s Lakeview mansion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:57 GMT

Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson and his wife, Chicago Red Stars forward Mallory Swanson, in late August were the buyers who paid $3.5 million to buy a six-bedroomLakeview mansion from former Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein.A Georgia native who previously played for the Atlanta Braves, Dansby Swanson, 29, has been a key part of the Cubs’ success this season. He signed a seven-year, $177 million contract with the team in December, which was the same month that he and Mallory married. Mallory Swanson, 25, has been with the Red Stars since 2021.In Lakeview, sources confirmed to Elite Street that the Swansons were the buyers who, through a trust, purchased the 7,000-square-foot brick and limestone mansion from Epsteins and his wife, Marie. Epstein is now a Connecticut-based consultant for Major League Baseball, and he and his wife last year paid $11.9 million for a six-bedroom, 8,155-square-foot mansion in Greenwich, Conn.The Swansons continue the Lakeview home’s lo...