Colorado governor signs bills to address prison overcrowding issues
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Gov. Jared Polis this week signed a bill to strengthen a 2018 law meant to speed up the release of eligible people from Colorado’s crowded prisons. Senate Bill 26-36 makes several changes to the state’s prison population management measures, which have not had the intended effect after they […]
Gov. Polis rejects Colorado bills on surveillance, arbitration, and plastic waste
This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr.org. DENVER | Gov. Jared Polis this week vetoed several bills backed by progressive Democrats, the latest round of vetoes during his final year as governor. The axed proposals addressed surveillance pricing, arbitration reform and plastic waste from restaurant takeout. One of […]
With Trump in a holding pattern on Iran war, allies and critics worry he risks getting boxed in
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump is facing warnings from foes and allies alike that he’s getting boxed in on the Iran war, a conflict he sold as a brief military incursion but that has since settled into a holding pattern. It’s been nearly a week since U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to […]
AI companies are barreling toward huge Wall Street debuts. A look at the biggest players
Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations. From Anthropic to SpaceX to OpenAI, tech giants are looking to take their shares public to access more capital in the race to shape the technology’s future. The amount of money involved in building and maintaining artificial […]
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
Eleven-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva had just stepped off the plane and into the Miami airport’s dim hallways when federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning. Again. Panic welled up. His excitement at soon being back at recess with his Florida classmates fell away. Would the government take her away again? This was not his […]
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Read more Toon in Thursday Read more Buffalo named Donald Trump for his golden locks is a sensation at a Bangladesh zoo Read more Cherry Creek school board appoints Keith Frazier to fill vacant director seat after scandal
Toon in Thursday
Read more Buffalo named Donald Trump for his golden locks is a sensation at a Bangladesh zoo Read more Cherry Creek school board appoints Keith Frazier to fill vacant director seat after scandal Read more House votes to halt US military action in Iran, rebuking Trump’s war strategy
Buffalo named Donald Trump for his golden locks is a sensation at a Bangladesh zoo
DHAKA, Bangladesh | With his shock of golden hair and trim 700-kilogram (1,500-pound) build, Donald Trump has been drawing crowds from across Bangladesh since he arrived at the national zoo last week. The rare albino buffalo became a sensation when a farmer noticed that his blond tuft of hair resembled the distinctive locks of the […]
Cherry Creek school board appoints Keith Frazier to fill vacant director seat after scandal
AURORA | The Cherry Creek school board on Wednesday appointed Princeton University graduate and local parent Keith Frazier to a school board seat made vacant in April after the previous director resigned amid a scandal over “racialized” remarks. After a special meeting Wednesday evening, school board members appointed Frazier, who was one of five final […]
House votes to halt US military action in Iran, rebuking Trump’s war strategy
WASHINGTON | The House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad. “The President’s war with Iran has been […]