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Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials confirmed at least six wolves were spotted in Moffat County, the northwestern most corner of the state. The pack was found about two miles from a trail of wolf tracks they discovered earlier this month. The discovery is notable: It's the first pack spotted in Colorado for nearly 100 years. Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he's honored to welcome the animals back to the state after "their long absence." "While lone wolves have visited our state periodically including last fall, this is very likely the first pack to call our state home since the 1930s,"...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE PRESIDENT PENCE and for AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Great is the LORD, and Greatly to be praised. His Greatness is unsearchable. One generation will commend Your works to another, and will declare Your mighty acts. Of the Glorious Splendor of Your Majesty they will speak ....

A nighttime rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injured at least one embassy personnel member, staffers there said Monday. The two staff members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, did not specify the injured person’s nationality or the severity of their wounds. They said the rocket slammed into a restaurant inside the embassy compound. Violence between Iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters also continued to seethe overnight, with one protester shot dead in a violent crackdown in the country’s south. Unrest was also ongoing in the capital Baghdad with...

County man is accused of driving drunk twice in the same day. CHP officers arrested 53-year-old Sanjeev Grover for DUI twice on Sunday. First in Solano County, then again in Sacramento County hours later. Grover’s first arrest happened in Solano County where CHP officers arrested him for DUI around 3 in the morning on Sunday. He was later arrested a second time for DUI near Greenback Lane and Interstate 80 around 2:30 in the afternoon Sunday in Sacramento County. According to CHP officials, after being released from the Solano County Jail, Grover picked up his car from a tow yard...

Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, displayed her support for environmental activist Greta Thunberg in a now-deleted Instagram post just days after her husband mocked the Swedish teen for her views on climate change. “I stand with Greta on this issue,” Linton wrote on her page. “(I don’t have a degree in economics either) We need to drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels. Keep up the fight @gretathunberg.” The Scottish-born actress, who describes herself as “Not a Republican. Not a Democrat. Humanitarian & Animal welfare activist. Pro-Environment. Vegan ” removed the posting on Saturday but screenshots...

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Philadelphia police are searching for the suspect accused of stealing $500,000 worth of jewelry belonging to former Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson, Action News has learned. The incident happened Monday morning around 10:30 a.m. at the Sofitel Hotel located on S. 17th Street. Sources confirm the suspect removed $500,000 worth of jewelry from Iverson's backpack before getting away. Iverson was not present at the time of the theft. The suspect is described as a 20-year-old man, standing 6-feet inches with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a dark-colored jacket, red shirt, dark-colored pants and black and white sneakers....

Wilson mocked the voters. "'You elitists with your geography, maps, spelling,'" Ali joined in. "'Yeah, your reading. Your geography. Knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.'" "All those lines on the map,'" Wilson added as Lemon continued his uncontrollable laughter. "'Only them elitists know where Ukraine is,'" Ali said as Wilson was also laughing. "Sorry, I apologize," Ali jokingly said. "It was Rick’s fault. I blame Rick." "That was good. Sorry," Lemon said as he tried to regain his composure.

In the 40 years since Diana Munson lost her husband, Thurman, in a plane crash, she’s had countless conversations with fans who tell her where they were when the accident happened and she never stops them. Rarely, though, does what happened on Aug. 2, 1979, come into focus as much as it did Sunday, when Diana and the world learned that Kobe Bryant had been killed — along with his daughter Gianna and seven others — in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles. “[Sunday] opened up a lot of wounds for me,’’ Diana said by phone Monday. “It brought...

As a fifth case of the coronavirus was confirmed in the U.S., the mayor of Wuhan has warned that the world should expect infections to keep climbing. On Sunday, Zhou Xianwang, the Mayor of Wuhan, said that 5 million people had left the city before travel restrictions were imposed ahead of the Chinese New Year. Ma Xiaowei, the director of China's National Health Commission, said that the virus had an incubation period of 10 to 14 days, during which the virus can be contagious but the patients does not display symptoms.

A search is underway for a vehicle that struck and killed a 27-year-old man that was lying in the middle of the road after being kicked out of a bar in Fair Oaks on Friday night, authorities said. The California Highway Patrol said the incident happened at approximately 10:36 p.m. in front of Players Pub located on Fair Oaks Boulevard, just east of New York Avenue. Witnesses told officers the deceased man was asked to leave the bar due to intoxication. CHP said they determined the man was lying in the right lane of westbound Fair Oaks Boulevard when he...

Three little pawpsicles were rescued last week in Canada by a quick-thinking man who used his coffee to thaw them out. On Wednesday morning, oilpatch worker Kendall Diwisch of Alberta, heard the tiny cries of three kittens in the snow. In a video shared on Facebook, which has since gone viral, Diwisch records himself approaching the cats and discovering their tails were frozen to the ice. The fast-acting man then goes to his car and grabs a still-warm coffee to use to free the kittens from the ice.

A CNN panel is facing intense backlash on Monday night for mocking Trump supporters as "credulous boomer rubes," even sparking fierce condemnation from President Trump and his presidential campaign. The panel, which originally aired on Saturday night during special live coverage of the impeachment trial, featured CNN anchor Don Lemon, New York Times columnist and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali, and ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson discussing the heated exchange Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had with an NPR reporter, where he allegedly challenged the journalist to point out Ukraine on a blank map. Wilson used the topic to mock President Trump...

Tucker Carlson is a longtime critic of former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who Carlson believes has a dangerous disposition toward war. So it was no surprise Monday when the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" blasted Bolton, comparing him to a snake in response to a New York Times report that Bolton's forthcoming book alleges President Trump tied Ukraine aid to an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter. "Donald Trump used to recite a poem about a woman who took a dying snake into her house and nursed it back to health. The snake did become healthy...

Sen. Ted Cruz engaged in a back-and-forth with a reporter while arguing that President Trump was justified in asking leaders in Ukraine to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. "The House [impeachment] managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, investigating the Bidens for corruption was baseless and a sham," Cruz said during a press conference on Monday. "That proposition is absurd ... We've just seen two hours of evidence." A reporter pressed Cruz, saying, "But senator, none of the president's attorneys mentioned one single possible crime. Basically, what they said...

Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, delivering a spirited constitutional defense of President Trump at his Senate impeachment trial Monday night, flatly turned toward House impeachment managers and declared they had picked "dangerous" and "wrong" charges against the president -- noting that neither "abuse of power" nor "obstruction of Congress" was remotely close to an impeachable offense as the framers had intended. In a dramatic primetime moment, the liberal constitutional law scholar reiterated that although he voted for Hillary Clinton, he could not find constitutional justification for the impeachment of a president for non-criminal conduct, or conduct that was not...

Chandigarh: A 28-year-old Mohali resident, who returned from China recently, has been admitted to the isolation ward of PGIMER here after showing novel coronavirus-like symptoms, an official said on Tuesday. This is the first suspected case of novel coronavirus in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh region. The patient, who hails from Uttar Pradesh but lives in Punjab's Mohali, had returned from China last week. The patient complained of fever and respiratory discomfort, said Dr Gagandeep Singh, State programme officer, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Punjab, on Tuesday. The patient, who is said to be a banker, himself went to the Post Graduate...

An American evangelical leader who advises US President Donald Trump on Israel announced that he will present an award to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mike Evans, one of Trump’s informal group of evangelical advisers, said Wednesday that he would award his “Friends of Zion” award to Putin to honor the role of the Soviet Union in saving Jews during World War II. Evans was visiting Israel this week for the World Holocaust Forum. “We want to give him the award for the following reasons. Number one, the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz. Number two, 8,660,000 Soviet soldiers died fighting the Nazis,”...

January 28 2020 Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19 David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David amid festivities. As soon as the bearers of the ark of the LORD had advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. Then David, girt with a linen apron, came dancing before the LORD with abandon, as he and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts of joy and to...

Most of the world knew Kobe Bryant as a basketball player with a combination of exceptional talent and tenacious desire, a calculating and cold-blooded scoring machine with no fear on the court. At Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach, he was a loving father of four daughters who shared the sweet joy of cupcakes. Bryant attended Mass regularly at the church, including on Sunday at 7 a.m., about two hours before the Lakers star, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash about 70 miles to the northwest in Calabasas. "He will...