Today In History: November 10, “sesame Street” Debuts

In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own. Read More: Here Are the New Members of Trump’s Administration So Far [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Hegseth, 44, has developed a close rapport with Trump, who also reportedly considered him for a post in his first administration.

One week after Election Day, control of the U. S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined. Nine states have at least one uncalled House race, some of which are so close they are headed to a recount. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Then there’s California. About half of the yet-to-be-decided House races are in the state, which has only counted about three-quarters of its votes statewide. This isn’t unusual or unexpected, as the nation’s most populous state is consistently among the slowest to report all its election results.

Denver Sen. Chris Hansen, a one-time mayoral candidate who was elected to his second term in the state Senate last week, has accepted a job leading a Durango-based electric authority. But it was still unclear when he planned to resign his seat. The La Plata Electric Association confirmed Hansen as its new CEO in a statement Tuesday, and an agenda for a board meeting next week includes a “CEO welcome and introduction.” Minutes from a previous board meeting indicated the electric cooperative was prepared to offer an unnamed candidate the CEO position in mid-September. A spokeswoman for the company did not return recent messages from The Denver Post.

The Emirates NBA Cup is upon us. The second annual NBA in-season tournament kicks off Tuesday and the Nuggets are the top seed in Group C in the Western Conference. Here’s a look at their schedule in the group state. Friday, Nov. 15: At New Orleans Pelicans, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19: At Memphis Grizzlies, 6 p.m. Friday, Nov.

There will be more telling tests for the Colorado men’s basketball team in the coming weeks. Yet Buffaloes fans are well aware that head coach Tad Boyle loves defense and rebounding. And the opening week results in those departments were decidedly … meh. CU has been sturdy, if untested, on the boards but has plenty of ground to gain defensively in the nonconference buildup to Big 12 play.

The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners gave the thumbs-down Tuesday to a Conifer downhill bike park that proposed 16 miles of winding trails descending an 830-foot vertical drop — all of it served by a chairlift. The 2-1 vote against granting the Shadow Mountain Bike Park a special use permit followed a nearly six-hour hearing.