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U.S. House passes coronavirus response bill; Buck lone Colorado rep to vote no The...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House early Saturday morning approved an emergency stimulus package to combat the coronavirus pandemic after President Donald Trump signaled his...
Colorado Sen. Gardner joins Dems in rejection of DeVos student loan policy Critics say...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to overturn a controversial regulation from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that her critics say hurts defrauded...
Government watchdog: Trump hasn’t justified BLM move to Colorado Of 179 staffers who needed...
WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is losing at least half of the employees designated to move to Grand Junction as part...
Racially integrated high schools often conceal segregated classes, new study shows
A truly integrated high school is hard to find.
That’s the conclusion of a new North Carolina study that takes a look at two kinds...
Liberal Supreme Court justices challenge abortion restrictions in high-stakes case Supreme Court Chief Justice...
WASHINGTON — The liberal wing of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared highly skeptical of a Louisiana law that restricts abortion access as the justices...
Trump EPA chief to Congress: Cut my funding The Trump administration has asked Congress...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants Congress to deeply cut funding for his own agency in the next fiscal...
Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a wary hope for...
It was late December 2019 and defense lawyer Mary Claire Mulligan spent the last week of the decade accompanying a client to his murder...
U.S. House votes to remove ERA obstacle Colorado's delegation splits along party lines
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted on Thursday to remove one barrier to adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but plenty...
Massive Colorado wilderness bill clears U.S. House despite GOP opposition
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats approved legislation Wednesday that would place permanent wilderness protections on more than 660,000 acres of land in Colorado.
The bill...
Landmark labor bill clears U.S. House A companion labor bill in the Senate isn’t...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed landmark pro-labor legislation Thursday that backers said could begin to reverse the country’s decades-long decline in union membership.
The...