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Where Colorado officials stand on Trump’s refugee order

  News of President Donald Trump temporarily slamming the borders on all refugees for 120 days— and for Syrians indefinitely— while blocking refugees from seven...

Meet Misty Plowright: The trans, Trekkie tech geek vying to unseat...

People like Misty Plowright don’t get elected to Congress. And that, she says, is exactly why she’s trying. The 33-year-old tech consultant is the nation’s...

Did Darryl Glenn’s convention speech shift the US Senate race?

  COLORADO SPRINGS — Not long after giving the most well-received speech at today's GOP state convention, El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn was mobbed by...

Coloradans react to Obama’s federal action on gun laws

President Barack Obama's executive action to tighten gun laws received a volley of criticism from Colorado Republicans and support from Democrats.   Saying Congress has failed...

Guess which Colorado lawmakers voted against the winning spending bill

  The U.S. House this morning approved a massive spending bill that will keep the government running until just before the 2016 election. But not all...

Colorado delegation splits on Obama’s Iran deal

In about two weeks, Congress is expected to vote on whether to back the deal regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons proposal. Congressional Democrats are beginning...

Trans-Pacific Partnership fast-track is back on track

The House this morning gave President Obama another shot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership, passing an amendment that will give the President fast-track authority to...

Colorado Republicans all vote for politically hot, doomed federal anti-abortion bill

Colorado lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday split along party lines on a bill that would ban nearly all late-term abortions across the...

Swing-state Colorado U.S. Congress members clash over latest anti-abortion bill

DENVER — Abortion bills are pouring down on Colorado like spring rain on the Northern Front Range. First, reproductive-health politics dominated the end of the 2015...

Republicans at pains to turn FCC net neutrality ruling into shadowy...

The Federal Communications Commission Thursday made an historic ruling in favor of “net neutrality,” which is shorthand for protecting web users from a two-tiered...