Comment on Opinion: Raid is about leverage

Denver police are still seeking information about the fatal shooting of a 42-year-old man in Capitol Hill one year ago. Lyle “Alex” Kerr was in a vehicle near East Seventh Avenue and North Lincoln Street around 9 p.m. on Jan. 23, 2024, when someone approached and shot him and a second man in the vehicle. The suspect fled on foot, according to the Denver Police Department.

Dana Crawford, a developer and preservationist who single-handedly did more than anyone to save Denver’s historic architecture, died Thursday night at age 93. Long before retro was cool and historic preservation hip, Crawford fought the prevailing tide that favored destroying older brick buildings to make room for modern skyscrapers of glass and steel.

The man they call “Moose” has left the Rocky Mountains for Tobacco Road. The Colorado Avalanche traded Mikko Rantanen, one of the top goal scorers in team history and a key member of the 2022 Stanley Cup title team, Friday night to the Carolina Hurricanes in one of the most seismic transactions since the franchise moved to Denver. Colorado received Martin Necas, Jack Drury, a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL draft and a fourth-round selection in 2026 from the Hurricanes as part of a three-team deal announced late Friday night.

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s defense secretary Friday in a dramatic late-night vote, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behavior toward women. Rarely has a Cabinet nominee faced such wide-ranging concerns about his experience and behavior as Hegseth, particularly for such a high-profile role atop the U.

Who knew that a musical would be the talk of the town going into the 2025 Oscars? No, not Wicked (though that movie has received its fair share of recognition at the box office and from the Academy) or the still puzzled-upon Robbie Williams monkey biopic Better Man, but Emilia Pérez. The film, a French-made, Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug cartel leader, starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofía Gascón, is a somewhat off-kilter awards chatter favorite.

In her first letter from Gaza, the former blogger Amal Murtaja described daily life in war. A second dispatch closed with the news that she had managed to escape to Egypt with her children. Murtaja, who taught English at Gaza’s American International School, wrote this from Giza, outside Cairo. As the potential cease-fire agreement neared, the news was a whirlwind of conflicting reports.