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Trump sticks with tariffs even as US voters turn against them before the midterms

NEW YORK | Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U.S. trading partners since the Great Depression is a winner. A […]

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Your ballot question vote will affect Colorado’s $1.6 billion budget deficit. Want to see how?

AURORA | How would you fix Colorado’s budget gap if you were in charge? A new interactive simulation lets Sentinel readers see how their votes on three statewide ballot measures could affect Colorado’s projected $1.6 billion budget shortfall, and then decide for themselves where to cut spending or invest more. The Colorado Tradeoffs project was […]

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Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital after surviving execution attempt, her attorneys say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years, her attorneys said […]

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Argument leads to fatal shooting, arrest, at Saddle Rock apartment in southeast Aurora

AURORA | An unidentified man was fatally shot Friday night at an southeast Aurora apartment after he and another man became embroiled in an argument inside an apartment, police said. Officers were called to an apartment inside the Sonoma Resort at Saddle Rock complex in the 22000 block of East Ottawa Drive, at about 9:30 […]

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Vance expresses doubts about Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter’s execution

HEBRON, Ky. | Vice President JD Vance cast doubt Friday on whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.” The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually going to […]

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Media attorneys ask court for help in preventing White House ban until legal case is resolved

WASHINGTON | An attorney for three news organizations told a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration must be prevented from barring their reporters from the White House, saying the ban is a classic example of “viewpoint discrimination” that is punishing people for what they say — and violating the media outlets’ First Amendment rights. […]

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Man with a gun and knife is fatally shot by security at Nashville federal courthouse, police say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. | A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot by a security officer Thursday just inside the busy entrance of a federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, authorities said. The 42-year-old man tried to fire his gun but failed and then pulled out a knife around 9:30 a.m., said Don […]