LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is taking another step toward building a canal that would divert water out of neighboring Colorado under a 99-year-old compact, a project based in fears about the Denver area’s growing use of the South Platte River that runs through both states. State lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill that would allow Nebraska’s Department of Natural Resources to lay the groundwork for the estimated $500 million canal.

Obituary: How Did Miami Dade Police Officer Cesar Echaverry Die? Officer Cesar Echaverry of the Miami Dade Police Department was killed after a robbery suspect shot him in the head. According to recent sources, Miami Dade county police officer Cesar Echaverry passed away from a head wound. Before the scenario became heated and gunshots broke out between the two sides, the event happened when the officers were pursuing a robbery suspect.

Hollywood executive producer and director on the FX drama, Pose, Janet Mock, used the premiere of season three of the show to blast the industry and ask why she and her co-stars of the trans drama were not paid more for their work.  The television series is about New York City’s African-American and Latino LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming drag ball culture scene in the 1980s and 1990s. But during a rare in-person premiere during the COVID pandemic, held in New York City on Thursday night, Mock, 38, left those in the 100-strong audience stunned, after making a fiery speech lasting almost 15 minutes.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover and his Russian fashion designer wife Ekaterina Malysheva are expecting their third child, according to German magazine Bunte. The couple, who were married in a lavish ceremony in July 2017 and are thought to live in London together, are already parents to three-year-old Elisabeth and two-year-old August. Two days after their civil ceremony, the pair enjoyed a glamorous, headline-grabbing church wedding, followed by two very luxurious receptions for their 600 guests: a luncheon at the historic Herrenhausen Gardens and an evening reception at Marienburg Castle.

Saturday Sessions: Glen Hansard performs “Wheels On Fire” – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Glen Hansard broke through by singing with Irish rock band The Frames and later starring in the hit movie “Once,” for which he won an Academy Award for best song. That film also went on to become a Tony Award-winning musical. Hansard just released his third solo effort, “Between Two Shores,” and begins a world tour this month.