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Moon Alert: Caution! Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or important decisions from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT today (4:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from GEMINI into CANCER. Happy Birthday for Monday, Aug. 18, 2025: You are a determined, independent thinker who can be inspirational. You’re also benevolent. This year you reap the benefits of your hard work. Expect increased power and leadership, plus acknowledgements, awards, promotions and kudos. It’s a time of major decisions and accomplishments. Many are in the spotlight. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★Today begins with strong, playful energy, which…

The Broncos are 10 days from some painful roster decisions. Sean Payton, however, would prefer to lose a good player because his team has more than it can keep rather than the alternative. “There’re going to be a number of tough decisions, but I’d rather be in that position than the position we were in two years ago at this time,” he said after his reserves battered Arizona’s, 27-7, in the second of three preseason games. “I think the talent level has gradually gotten better.” Preseason games don’t count outside of individual evaluation. They don’t give any meaningful insight into…

Today is Monday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2025. There are 135 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 18, 2005, a judge in Wichita, Kansas, sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms, the maximum the law would allow. Also on this date: In 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony (in present-day North Carolina), returned to Roanoke after nearly three years abroad only to find the settlement deserted; the fate of the “Lost Colony” remains a mystery. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed…

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee may have made the catch of the year — at least. Tampa Bay’s Yandy Díaz drove a pitch to deep right-center, known as Triples Alley at Oracle Park, and Lee made a play that created a buzz Sunday on social media as San Francisco beat the Rays 7-1. Jung Hoo Lee with the type of catch you might never see again pic.twitter.com/wC6MliMg0y — SFGiants (@SFGiants) August 17, 2025 Lee ran to his left and while sliding on his left leg, the baseball bounced out of his glove. The ball…

Two words did the job just fine, because nobody needed any kind of soliloquy to understand the things Troy Franklin was doing Saturday night. “It’s happening,” Sean Payton nodded to reporters. The Broncos head coach saw this coming this offseason before the rest of the world physically could. He saw it a year and a half ago, when he traded away a few late-round picks to invest in Franklin penny stock. He saw a 6-foot-3 springboard trainer Drew Lieberman recently described as a “raw ball of clay,” who had been Bo Nix’s favorite target at Oregon without knowing the full…

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…