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Striking Kaiser Permanente workers get support from elected officials

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The largest strike of health care workers is happening in states across the U.S., including right here in Colorado.Kaiser Permanente workers in Colorado joined the more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers nationwide, calling for the company to alleviate staffing shortages and offer better wages. United flight catches fire on takeoff at Denver International Airport Workers at the Kaiser Permanente facility on Franklin Street have been out there since Wednesday morning. While they still have not reached an agreement with their company, union workers are gaining support from some community members."Frontline health care workers are here for the patients. They want their patients to receive safe care, and when you can't do that on a daily basis to the level that you know patients deserve, that can be stressful as well," SEIU Local 105 President Stephanie Felix-Sowy said.Kaiser Permanente responds to strikeKaiser Permanente canceled a press availability wi...

These pharmacies are closed during the Kaiser Permanente strike

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Time has run out, and with no agreement reached between Kaiser Permanente and the health care workers' union, a three-day strike will begin.On Wednesday morning, Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit private health care provider in both Colorado and the U.S., announced several pharmacies and other services will be closed during the strike. Kaiser Permanente workers speak ahead of potential strike The two sides had until Wednesday to come to an agreement, and nothing has been reached.So, a strike will happen from Oct. 4 at 6 a.m. to Oct. 7 at 6 a.m.More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers, 3,000 in Colorado, will protest unfair labor practices and unsafe staffing levels at hundreds of Kaiser hospitals and facilities across the U.S. This strike will be the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history.Kaiser Permanente pharmacies closed during the strikeThe following pharmacies will be impacted by the strike. Denver/Boulder areaBaseline (Boulder), Castle Roc...

‘I’m going through total hell’: Navy vet, 70, details hardships after beating and robbery on Lincoln Road

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

A U.S. Navy veteran is out of the hospital and sharing his story months after, police said, he was brutally beaten and robbed at a bus stop on Lincoln Road.Speaking with 7News on Wednesday, the 70-year-old, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons, detailed the terrifying moments when he was hit repeatedly along the 300 block of Lincoln Road back on June 27.“He stomped me on my head and on my back,” he said. “I wasn’t bothering a soul.”A proud American, the veteran wears his heart on his sleeve and his head.“I’m proud of proud of being an American. I’m proud of being a veteran,” he said. “My father was a veteran, his father was a veteran, my great great grandfather. We were all veterans.”But this retired serviceman from Miami Beach has been suffering in the aftermath of the attack.“I’m going through total hell,” he said.The victim said he was on his way to volunteer at the VA Hospital in Mia...

Police: Men dressed as construction workers stole about 70 generators from Trump National Doral

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

A theft in broad daylight at a resort in Doral is generating concerns.A white pickup truck was seen on video driving through a parking lot at the Trump National Doral Miami on Monday.According to Doral Police, the men inside were dressed as construction workers and took off with about 70 generators.Those generators were being stored at the hotel for the upcoming LIV Golf Tournament.Authorities believe this theft is connected to other incidents across Miami-Dade and Broward counties.Wednesday night, a spokesperson with Doral Police issued a statement that reads, “This type of crime is something we take very seriously. Although no one was hurt, we have a zero tolerance with regards to any criminal activity that involves theft in our City. We have several active leads that we are following and feel very optimistic that the perpetrators will be caught by our Detectives.”

Stars of ‘Exorcist: Believer’ talk about making legacy sequel; Ellen Burstyn discusses reprising iconic role

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

For 50 years, “The Exorcist” has been haunting your dreams, and we’ve never looked at green pea soup the same. Pea soup and Linda Blair both scarred us for life.The new legacy sequel “The Exorcist: Believer” aims do the same thing. It features Ellen Burstyn, who is reprising her role from the original.Deco’s own dashing demon, Alex Miranda, has the story.This new sequel says it’s got twice the fright. After all, what’s better than one possessed brat from hell? Two possessed brats from hell!Double the pea soup flavor. Double the demonic fun.In “The Exorcist: Believer,” two girls have come down with … I mean, I’m no expert, but this doesn’t look good.Olivia Marcum (as Katherine): “The body and the blood! the body and the blood!”In this legacy sequel to the 1973 classic we can never un-see, Victor Fielding, played by Leslie Odom Jr., has been raising his daughter, Angela, on his own since the death of h...

‘He just loves winding them up’: Could Nigel Farage actually lead the Tories?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

LONDON — They’re loving Nigel instead.Tory activists weren’t singing quite that as they belted out Robbie Williams’ “Angels” in the presence of Britain’s foremost Brexiteer Nigel Farage at the Conservatives’ conference this week. But they weren’t far off it.Farage, who left the Tories in the ’90s to lead Britain’s Euroskeptic diehards from various splinter parties including UKIP, was a prominent fixture at the Conservatives’ conference in Manchester this week where he gained entrance as an anchor for GB News.Farage was mobbed and given a hero’s welcome by activists eager to congratulate the architect of Brexit, raising a question: Could he lead those activists as leader one day?It’s unlikely, but not impossible. Step-by-step, here’s how that process would work. 1. Become a Tory memberThe prospect of Farage returning to the Tories is being taken seriously by those present at conference.One diplomat p...

Poland’s election: Big hopes but no quick fixes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

WARSAW — The campaign language ahead of this year’s Polish general election is apocalyptic — painting it as an existential battle for the soul of the EU’s fifth most populous country — but the likeliest outcome is a chaotic stalemate.If the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) hangs on to power for a third term there isn’t much more it can do to wreck Poland without quitting the EU — and there’s little prospect of that. If the opposition pulls off a stunner and wins it will be so hemmed in by PiS-controlled courts and institutions and by a hostile president that it won’t be able to do much more than tweak the optics rather than surgically remove the growths added by Law and Justice.Internationally, Poland is too important to be kept in the deep freeze forever; with a fast-growing economy, a big military and a key role in supplying Ukraine, it is no Slovakia. A PiS win will mean greater efforts to find some accommodation with Warsaw; an opposition vi...

In Granada, backlash grows against Ukraine’s EU accession

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

GRANADA, Spain — French President Emmanuel Macron will aim to rally countries behind a historic expansion that would integrate war-torn Ukraine and several other candidate countries into the European Union during a gathering of leaders in the Spanish city of Granada that kicks off Thursday.But concerns among member states about the mechanics and viability of such a large expansion present a serious threat to a project Macron and other leaders, like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, have staked their credibility.The French leader will make a joint push with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to kick start difficult EU enlargement talks at the third meeting of the European Political Community, a forum created in response to the Russian invasion that includes European leaders from beyond the EU to build a broader, more inclusive European network. Beyond the key question of EU accession for Ukraine, informal meetings will be dominated by high-stakes diplomatic talks about o...

Kemi Badenoch’s conference charm offensive

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — The bookmakers’ favorite to become the next Conservative leader launched a dual-pronged assault at the party’s annual conference this week.Publicly, Kemi Badenoch focused her efforts at the Manchester gathering on preaching to Tory grassroots members; privately, she spent a hectic few days courting business representatives from some of Britain’s largest firms.And it was the public utterances of the business and trade secretary rather than her backroom cajoling of well-paid lobbyists and executives which were to prove the most revealing.With speculation at fever pitch that the Manchester event could well be the last major chance for future leadership hopefuls to court party members before a potential leadership contest, all eyes were on the unofficial race leader.And Badenoch did not disappoint, with a range of red in tooth and nail performances on the conference stage and addressing packed fringe meetings.Anyone under the impression that talk of a future contes...

Rishi Sunak slows Mexico and Canada trade talks as he eyes pre-election UK/US pact

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:42 GMT

LONDON — Crucial talks on Britain’s future trade with Canada and Mexico have been deprioritized as Rishi Sunak’s government pursues a pre-election agreement with Joe Biden’s U.S. administration.POLITICO reported this week that the U.K. and U.S. are preparing a “foundational” trade agreement designed to be wrapped up before both the U.S. president and U.K. prime minister face re-election next year.But the drive threatens to further squeeze the time that already-pressed British negotiators can commit to securing continued market access to Canada and Mexico as key elements of post-Brexit deals with each of those two countries expire.British negotiators’ agendas were so full in June that Sunak personally asked for renewed Canadian and Mexican deals to “be taken forward on a slower timeline than previously planned,” according to a memo circulated within the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and obtained by POLITICO.Expiry of parts of the Canada and Mexico agreements — which were ro...