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Colorado appeals court throws out Tina Peters' 9-year prison term, orders resentencing

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DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

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Trump speech on Iran war, recent remarks on oil, NATO, daycare costs land with a thud

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President Donald Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world markets concerned about the conflict’s ongoing disruptions to the global oil supply....Read more

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Senate tees up bill to end Homeland Security shutdown

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WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for immigration enforcement.

In an early-morning pro forma session, the Senate agreed, by voice vote, to table a House measure that would have ...Read more

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Colorado appeals court throws out Tina Peters' 9-year prison term, orders resentencing

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DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

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Trump slams 'kangaroo court' as SCOTUS debates birthright citizenship

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President Donald Trump Thursday posted “Kangaroo Court!!!” in an apparent jab at the Supreme Court after it heard oral arguments in a case over birthright citizenship.

Although he didn’t elaborate, Trump’s two-word early morning outburst on his social media site seemed a reference to the conservative justices who sounded very skeptical ...Read more

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Trump vows to pay DHS workers as Republicans plod towards shutdown-ending deal

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President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to pay all federal Department of Homeland Security workers as congressional Republicans struggled to end the record-setting partial goverment shutdown that is set to extend through Easter weekend.

“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” ...Read more

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Andreas Kluth: Defeat has never sounded as victorious as in Trump's address

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On April Fools’ Day, the American president addressed the nation and the world to send not one message about the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran a month ago, but all possible messages at once.

The conflict is “nearing completion,” Donald Trump said, before repeating that the U.S. might also escalate by hitting ...Read more

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A year after 'Liberation Day,' what did Trump's tariffs achieve?

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WASHINGTON — One year ago, Donald Trump stood in a sun-kissed, unpaved Rose Garden and defiantly announced a new era of global trade, raising tariffs on countries worldwide and sending shock waves through the global economy.

The president promised short-term pain rippling through American households would make way for a U.S. economy that ...Read more

A statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns is unveiled in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

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The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of student activism that helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools.

In April 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a ...Read more

Colin Gray enters the Barrow County courthouse on Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga.  AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes

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The first parents convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass school shooting committed by their child were Jennifer and James Crumbley. The Crumbleys were convicted in 2024, after their 15-year-old son Ethan killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.

In March 2026, Colin Gray became the first parent ...Read more

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Wave of retirements and politics promise spending panel makeover

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WASHINGTON —The House Appropriations Committee is set to undergo a major shake-up following the midterm elections, especially among its Republicans.

With four members retiring, two running for Senate and four others in potentially tight reelection contests, nearly a third of the committee’s Republicans may not return in the next Congress.

...Read more

Andreas Kluth: Defeat has never sounded as victorious as in Trump's address

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On April Fools’ Day, the American president addressed the nation and the world to send not one message about the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran a month ago, but all possible messages at once.

The conflict is “nearing completion,” Donald Trump said, before repeating that the U.S. might also escalate by hitting ...Read more

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Editorial: Court rulings against Trump proof that democracy still works

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It must have been a confounding day for “No Kings” protestors. Their placards at rallies held around the country decry President Trump’s “authoritarian regime” and the “fascism” under which Americans now live. They’ve blasted the ballroom Trump was building adjacent to the White House.

Two federal judges upended that notion ...Read more

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Democrat halts bid for nomination to take on Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, leaving one primary contender

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DENVER — Democrat Trisha Calvarese, who was vying for a second chance to take on U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in the November election, has dropped out of the primary race in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Her Tuesday evening announcement came 48 hours before she and her Democratic rival were set to compete in the 4th District ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump library looks more like an ego tower than a museum, even by Miami standards

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Miami is no stranger to excess. In this city, gaudy isn’t so much an insult as a way of life. But even in a place known for Lamborghinis, Brazilian butt lifts and wannabe billionaires, President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library stands out.

On Monday, the Trump Library Foundation released the first rendering of the downtown ...Read more

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Editorial: No contest -- Supreme Court must uphold birthright citizenship

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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a case of long-settled law that shouldn’t even be before the justices: birthright citizenship.

The court will weigh President Donald Trump’s outlandish executive order purporting to end the automatic grant of citizenship to those born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants. We doubt...Read more

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Democrats sue to challenge Trump's mail-in ballot limits

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders sued to block President Donald Trump from prohibiting mail-in voting for anyone not on a preapproved list of citizens to be compiled by the Department of Homeland Security.

Top Democrats in the House and Senate, along with their campaign committees and the Democratic National Committee, allege ...Read more

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US set to roll out tiered tariffs on steel, aluminum imports

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The Trump administration is preparing to outline a tiered system for its broad tariffs on steel and aluminum products in an attempt to simplify a process that has dogged American companies for months.

The US will maintain 50% tariffs on a large number of derivative products in which the duty will be calculated by the value of the actual ...Read more

In major speech, Trump says Iran war will be over 'shortly' but offers little clarity

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WASHINGTON — In his first formal address to the nation since launching a war on Iran more than a month ago, President Trump on Wednesday night repeated a familiar list of claimed successes — and brushed aside setbacks caused by the war — while providing little clarity on a clear path to end a conflict that he said will be over “shortly....Read more

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Judge denies Trump effort to end Jan. 6 lawsuits before trial

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

 

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