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Alec Hanna Many of you have probably used the restrooms at Red Rocks, Denver International Airport, or Coors Field and watched as the person next to you at the sink dipped their hands in the water for just a second, without soap or scrubbing, and then quickly walked out the door. They “washed their hands,” but they didn’t accomplish the purpose of washing their hands.I don’t mean to preach about personal hygiene, but I am asking why so many candidates simply check boxes on so many aspects of their campaigns. PR teams put out press releases but do nothing to…

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will arrive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the first (and likely only) presidential debate. The debate will mark the first time Harris and Trump will meet face-to-face and comes less than two months after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race following his fateful performance in a June debate.The change in the Democratic nominee leadership appears to have rattled Trump and his campaign advisers, who have struggled to attack Harris. With polls showing a close race in key battleground states, the debate will be Trump’s biggest opportunity yet to paint Harris in a…

Everyone loves a great comeback, and in 2004, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable — not even the infamous “Curse of the Bambino” nor the rival New York Yankees. Released earlier this year, the documentary series “The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox” charts one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, as the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series after an 86-year drought. The three-part series features exclusive interviews with players such as Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz and Kevin Millar, the team’s former manager Terry Francona, former general manager and executive vice president Theo Epstein and many others…

The Trump campaign and prominent Republicans, including J.D. Vance, have been spreading false and unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants living in Ohio cities are eating pets and local wildlife.Obscene and racist social media posts baselessly claim that Haitian migrants to Springfield, Ohio, are stealing pets and local wildlife, including ducks and geese, and slaughtering them for food. Many of the posts, including one shared by the X account of a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, use AI-generated images to show Donald Trump embracing and protecting cats and ducks, portraying him as the town’s savior. Republican Senator Ted Cruz…

Activist investor Starboard Value is challenging the ownership structure of media empire News Corp, arguing the company’s dual shareholder structure gives the Murdoch family an excessive voice and exacerbates complex interpersonal relationships among its members.The hedge fund said it had submitted a proposal to eliminate the company’s dual share structure. The proposal will be voted on at News Corp.’s next annual meeting of shareholders, which took place last year in November but has not yet set a date, according to a letter released by Starboard on Monday.News Corporation owns influential publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York…

CNN — In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s presidential debate, what Americans heard, read and watched about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump kept coming and going, with the stories that resonated with each candidate shifting from week to week. This is a different situation from the past two presidential elections: Similar survey results from 2016 and 2020 found that in both elections, news and information reaching Americans about at least one candidate consistently focused on one issue throughout the election: emails around Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic around Trump in 2020.…

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A new luxury mixed-use development may be coming to Las Vegas Boulevard.Clark County commissioners on Wednesday approved plans for the complex, which would be built on 10 acres at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Elvis Presley Boulevard, at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.The project would include two towers, each about 600 feet tall: one with a 750-unit hotel and the other with 425 apartments, according to consultant Nancy Amundsen.”We asked that they have short-term and long-term capabilities, because the reason is that people who come to the convention center might stay…

A Weld District Court judge ordered the Future Legends organization placed into receivership on Tuesday after the organization and its owner, Jeff Katofsky, failed to repay six debts totaling more than $45 million.Future Legends was originally billed as a sports entertainment venue that would host tournaments for teams from around the country and be home to the Northern Colorado Owls minor league baseball team and the Halestorm minor league football team, but it has come under intense scrutiny since last year after a string of liens, lawsuits and unpaid bills continued to pile up.BizWest previously reported that lawsuits for more…

new york CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s social media companies fell into a deep slump and things continued to get worse, wiping out much of Trump’s net worth. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) fell last week to their lowest level since the merger that took the owner of Truth Social public this spring. Despite rebounding 7% on Monday, Trump Media has lost nearly three-quarters (72%) of its value since hitting a peak of $66.22 on March 27. The sell-off caused huge losses for investors, including Trump. The value of Trump’s 114.75 million shares of major stocks…