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Not politics as usual. Democratic primaries linked to age, ideals and outside money

AURORA | Colorado’s Democratic primaries on Tuesday will help answer a question the party has increasingly faced nationally: Are voters gravitating toward a younger, more progressive generation of leaders or sticking with established veterans? That choice is starkly reflected in the fight to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette has […]

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Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella. On a typical shift, he said, he chatted with more than 100 people […]

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Republican Tom Kean Jr. set to return to Congress after long unexplained absence

TRENTON, N.J. | Tom Kean Jr., the New Jersey Republican who’s been away from Congress for almost four months, is expected to re-emerge in public after months of speculation about the unspecified medical condition he says has kept him away from Washington. Kean, 57, a second-term lawmaker and scion of a New Jersey political family, […]

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Trump’s fixation on voting has had mixed results. He still has ways to affect November’s elections

ATLANTA | President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing restrictive legislation in Congress. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling siding with states that accept late-arriving mail ballots was the latest example showing the limits of his reach. It followed back-to-back rulings last week that […]

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Iran says this. The US says that. A look at the trickiest issues in the unresolved conflict

The United States and Iran have less than 60 days to negotiate a permanent end to the war, but they still seem to be at odds over the interim deal they reached this month. It’s not even clear when the two sides will meet again. “The situation is sensitive and complex,” a senior Iranian negotiator, […]

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Aurora teacher of the year semi-finalist inspires students to learn, win and pass it on

AURORA | For Viviana Martinez, teaching has never been just about helping her students learn Spanish or English. It’s about helping young people understand who they are, where they come from and what responsibilities come with opportunities. Her philosophy is simple. “Passing the good on,” Viviana said in an interview last week with the Sentinel. […]

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Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups

AURORA | Harsh campaign attack ads targeting a handful of Democratic primary election races in Aurora have prompted allegations of racism and false information in the last few days leading up to the June election.  Multiple Democratic primary races in Aurora are seeing a flurry of advertisements and messages from independent expenditure committees, which expressly […]