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Court finds Children’s Hospital in Aurora met order to reinstate gender-affirming care
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | A Denver judge shut down a motion for contempt against Children’s Hospital Colorado that alleged it was not in compliance with an order that required the hospital to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors. Children’s Hospital Colorado stopped offering gender-affirming care to minors in January due […]
Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims
WASHINGTON | Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people […]
Democrats and activist groups plan to push back if Trump tries to interfere in midterm elections
Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they’re calling the “New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up. Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting. And […]
Environmental groups protest BLM oil and gas auctions near Aurora Reservoir
AURORA |A move by the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management to begin auctioning off parcels of public land in Colorado for Oil and Gas lease has prompted an outcry from environmental groups and community advocates both in Aurora and across the state. The Sept. 8 auction saw the bureau offer two parcels, one covering […]
Under Trump, census eyes sweeping plan to omit immigrants, race data
The Trump administration is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the once-a-decade U.S. Census head count that could leave out millions of immigrants based on status and key racial and ethnic data, jeopardizing the allocation of resources and the country’s voting map. The potential changes, announced Wednesday, would exclude undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers and anyone without […]
EDITORIAL: It’s accurate now to call the Aurora GEO ICE prison a concentration camp
It’s no longer just a barbed social media meme to insist the Trump administration has turned the nation’s stock of immigrant detention centers into concentration camps. As you read this, and right here in Aurora, people are illegally confiscated and rounded up, denied their constitutional rights regarding search and seizure and habeas corpus, held without […]
Colorado sues Trump administration over Medicaid gender-affirming care ban
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued the Trump administration Wednesday over its attempt to prohibit states from using federal Medicaid funds for gender-affirming healthcare. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts alongside other Democratic-led states, says the U.S. Department of Health and […]
Trump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming
BOSTON | The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its […]
Trump administration pushes to remove tax exemption for private colleges with DEI policies
WASHINGTON | The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House’s campaign to eradicate diversity programs directed at Black, Hispanic and other minority students. The Treasury Department […]
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, White House says
WASHINGTON | Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. No reason was given for the departure of Driscoll, who is a friend of Vice President JD Vance, but tensions with Defense […]