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3 tips for taking the best fall photos

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Fall is in the air, and so are the changing leaves. Taking a picture doesn't necessarily last longer when the photos are worse than your memory. FOX31 spoke with a professional photographer and got a quick crash course on taking photos of the fall leaves. Denver’s pumpkin spice hysteria is just getting started Professional wildlife and landscape photographer John Williams talked about the basics you'll need to know to take a fall foliage photo.PlaceThe top rule to follow when taking pictures of fall leaves is to go somewhere that has them. Fall leaves are in the midst of changing and not everywhere you go will have peak foliage just yet.In late September, Williams recommends Lake Granby for its deep red colors. However, Lake Granby will only be in peak season until the end of September. After that, the Rockies will be the place to go, said Williams.Williams also recommends Highway 34, the road from Lake Granby to Monarch Lake, Cottonwood Pass in Granby and Gore Pas...

Russia puts international court’s top leadership on wanted list

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

Russia’s ministry of internal affairs has placed International Criminal Court (ICC) President Piotr Hofmański on its wanted list, according to the ministry’s online database.The site does not specify what Hofmański is wanted for, but it states he is “wanted under the article of the Criminal Code,” reported Russian state-run news site TASS. Alongside Hofmański, the ministry also added ICC Vice President Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza and judge Bertram Schmitt to the wanted list.Moscow has been retaliating against the ICC, which back in March issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova over the forced transfer of children to Russia since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year.Russia said it did not recognize the court’s authority and quickly responded to the arrest warrant by opening its own criminal case against the ICC prosecutors and judges.Since then, Russia has p...

Police investigating 4 assaults near Berklee College of Music in Boston

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

Four assaults in the area of the Berklee College of Music in Boston prompted officials to issue a warning to students over the weekend, putting many on high alert.Boston police officers responded to the music school around 6 p.m. Saturday after four people said they were assaulted on Massachusetts Avenue, Boylston Street, and Haviland Street, all within about a block of each other. All of the victims were treated on scene or didn’t need medical treatment.One of the assaults occurring right near Berklee police headquarters.A student telling 7NEWS the incident felt her feeling “very scared” because the attacks happened when she is normally walking back from class.In a message to the school community, officials shared an image of a person they believe is connected to at least one of the assaults. In a follow-up message, they assured students the person had been identified and the situation has been resolved. Boston police have not yet provided an update on the investi...

AG Campbell hasn’t made a decision on auditor’s lawsuit

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

The attorney general has not yet determined whether she will represent the state’s auditor in her attempt to force the Legislature to comply with an audit of their affairs.Auditor Diane DiZoglio’s announcement earlier this year that she would begin the first audit of the state Legislature in decades was met with immediate dismissal from state lawmakers, who claimed the former legislator lacked the authority to look into another branch of government’s work. DiZoglio responded to the Legislature’s stonewalling of her efforts by asking the Attorney General to sue for their compliance.“This is a very serious decision,” Attorney General Andrea Campbell told WCVB on Sunday. “It’s rare that you have one branch of government looking to sue another branch of government. We’ve met with her, we’re reviewing her documents, we’ve also met with the Legislature and we’ll have a decision soon.”In March, DiZoglio said her office’s effort to look under the hood of the state Legislature would re...

Poland accuses Germany of meddling in its affairs by seeking answers on alleged visa scheme

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister accused Germany of trying to interfere in his country’s internal affairs after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Warsaw needs to clarify allegations that Polish consulates in Africa and Asia sold temporary work visas to migrants for thousands of dollars each.Poland’s right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice, is facing questions about the alleged scheme ahead of an Oct. 15 national election in which it is seeking a third term in power.Scholz, whose government is under pressure to do more to limit migration to Germany, called on neighboring Poland on Saturday to provide clarification of what was happening.“I don’t want people to just be waved through from Poland and only for us to have a discussion about asylum policy afterward,” Scholz said in comments reported by the German news agency dpa.Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau retorted late Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, that Scholz’s statement “violates the pri...

What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo?

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer and three attackers dead.Sunday’s clash was one of the worst since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. It came as the European Union and the U.S. are trying to mediate and finalize yearslong talks on normalizing ties between the two Balkan states.There are fears in the West of a revival of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives and left over 1 million homeless.Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti accused Serbia of sending the attackers into Kosovo. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied that, saying the men were Kosovo Serbs who have had enough of “Kurti’s terror.”A look at the history between Serbia and Kosovo, and why the latest tensions are a concern for Europe.WHY ARE SERBIA AND KOSOVO...

Stock market today: Wall Street inches lower hinting that sustained market sell-off may continue

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

Wall Street inched lower early Monday following last week’s rout, the market’s worst stretch in six months. Futures for the S&P 500 were off 0.3% and futures for the Dow Jones industrials ticked down 0.2% before the bell.Worries over China’s property sector, a U.S. government shutdown and the continued strike by American autoworkers were weighing on markets. Media and entertainment companies got a small boost from news that a tentative agreement was reached Sunday to end a historic screenwriters strike after nearly five months. No deal is yet in the works for striking actors.Shares in Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Disney and Netflix all rose about 2% or less.Amazon announced Monday that it is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup. It’s the latest Big Tech company to pour money into AI as they race to capitalize on the opportunities that the latest generation of the technology is set to fu...

Unifor says Ford ratification sets pattern for auto talks

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

TORONTO — Unifor says the pattern has been set with the ratification by workers of a new contract at Ford Motor Co. of Canada.The union says it will now choose either General Motors or Stellantis as the next target company in its contract talks with the big U.S. auto companies.The Ford deal is expected to serve as a blueprint for those negotiations.Unifor announced Sunday that workers voted 54 per cent in favour of the new three-year collective agreement at Ford.The deal includes wage hikes, pension and benefit improvements and special EV transition measures for workers at Ford’s assembly plant in Oakville, Ont.It also adds two new paid holidays.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 25, 2023.The Canadian Press

A Molotov cocktail is thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there are no injuries

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials were investigating.Secret Service officers were called around 8 p.m. Sunday to respond to the attack on a busy street in the Adams-Morgan section of the city. Embassy officials reported that someone had thrown a “possible incendiary device” at the building, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Monday. There was no fire or significant damage to the building, he said. No arrests had been made. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on X, formerly called Twitter, that the Cuban Embassy “was the target of a terrorist attack by an individual who threw 2 Molotov cocktails.” He said no one was injured. A spokesman for the Cuban Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for additional information on Monday.In 2020, a Cuban man who sought asylum in the U.S. opened fire with an AK-47 ...

A former UK nurse will be retried on a charge that she tried to murder a baby girl at a hospital

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:17:48 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A former neonatal nurse who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of seven babies in her care and trying to kill six others at a U.K. hospital will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl, prosecutors said Monday. Lucy Letby, 33, was sentenced last month to life behind bars with no chance of release after a jury convicted her of murdering seven babies in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between 2015 and 2016. She was also convicted of trying to murder six other infants.However, the jury of seven women and four men in her 10-month trial was not able to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder in relation to five other newborns. Letby had faced two counts of attempted murder against one of the newborns.The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday it wanted to pursue a retrial on one of those outstanding charges, which involved a baby girl known only as Child K in February 2016. Letby a...