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It’s been five years since the budding tech giant Palantir Technologies uprooted the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Denver, hoping to plant itself in the emerging tech hub and escape protests that had erupted both within the company and outside its doors. Immigrant-rights advocacy groups had organized protests outside the company’s Palo Alto and New York offices, as well as at the home of its CEO, Alexander Karp, who criticized the California coast’s “monoculture.” A University of California, Berkeley conference on privacy law dropped Palantir as a sponsor. More than 200 employees sent a letter to Karp expressing their…

As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention this week and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes. The president’s characterization of their cities contradicts what they began noticing last year: that they were seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era spike. In some cases the declines were monumental, due in large part to more youth engagement, gun buyback programs and community partnerships. Now members of the African American Mayors Association are determined to stop Trump from burying accomplishments that they already felt were overlooked. And…

A 49-year-old man was arrested Sunday after a Denver pedestrian died in a hit-and-run Saturday night, police said. Calisto Ortega-Uribe was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, according to the Denver Police Department. Police first posted about the fatal crash involving a pedestrian in the 3600 block of North Quebec Street at 11:03 p.m. Saturday. The driver fled the scene, and the pedestrian died from their injuries, police said. The block is near where Quebec intersects with Interstate 270, north of Interstate 70. The pedestrian will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner. Ortega-Uribe is being held…

Sean Payton coddles Audric Estime the way Lucy Van Pelt coddled poor Charlie Brown. Like Lucy, Payton keeps promising Estime the football. Like Lucy, Sunshine Sean keeps pulling the rock away at the last minute. “We knew we wanted two-thirds of the game to get to Blake (Watson) and Audric, and I think we were able to accomplish that,” Payton said after the Broncos stomped Arizona, 27-7, in the Backup Bowl on Saturday at Empower Field. “It’s not an exact science. But those guys got a lot of work. I thought they did a good job with their opportunities.” What…

One man had minor wounds and another was arrested after a fight at the University of Denver library on Saturday afternoon, police officials said. DU campus security contacted Denver police about an assault at the campus library at 12:56 p.m., police spokesperson Kurt Barnes said. The victim and suspect are adult males, and neither is a student, Barnes said. The victim refused medical treatment at the scene. Campus security detained the man suspected in the altercation and turned him over to police. The case is under investigation, Barnes said. DU officials said the two men had come into the library…

Broncos! Nuggets! Santa! Same day! Well, same night, at least. Team Grading The Week (GTW) loves marathons of “A Christmas Story” as much as the next leg lamp, but American TV options on Christmas Day could use a good kick in the backside after mid-afternoon. At which point, if your family is even remotely like the goofballs in the GTW offices, you’ve already opened all your presents, drank most of the eggnog and are starting to get sick of looking at one another. In other words, we need more things to talk about, more things to rally around — other…

Scattered rain and slightly cooler temperatures limited the spread of wildfires burning across Colorado’s Western Slope on Saturday, allowing firefighters to increase containment and lifting some evacuation orders. Containment on the 133,954-acre Lee fire burning between Meeker and Rifle in Rio Blanco County grew to 31% as crews marked a “very successful” day of keeping the flames in check, operations section chief Jeramy Dietz said in a morning briefing. County officials reopened Colorado 13 for the first time since Aug. 2 and lifted some mandatory evacuations along the highway on Saturday, although some areas west of the highway and near…

By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young people at a recent Holy Year celebration with an impromptu popemobile romp around St. Peter’s Square, it almost seemed as if some of the informal spontaneity that characterized Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy had returned to the Vatican. But the message Leo delivered that night was all his own: In seamless English, Spanish and Italian, Leo told the young people that they were the “salt of the Earth, the light of the world.” He urged them to spread their hope, faith in Christ and…

Dear Eric: Several months ago, I discovered my husband was having an emotional affair with a coworker. He shared significant things with her he didn’t share with me, sought her advice on how to hide his alcohol abuse from me and talked to her about our arguments, while she fueled the negativity against me and trashed me. He also discussed intimate details of our sex life with her which I never consented to being shared. After several painful conversations about it, we recommitted to our relationship. I asked him to end contact with her. Not out of control, but because…

At the top of Phil Anschutz’s wish list for his brand new soccer team in 1996 was “the guy who did a funny overhead kick” in the 1994 World Cup. What he got was the face of Colorado soccer for a generation. Three decades later, Marcelo Balboa’s No. 17 jersey will be immortalized at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park — a tribute to the defender who helped launch the Rapids and give a new league one of its first stars. “As a kid, I didn’t play this game because I was looking to have my number retired. I wasn’t playing this…