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Wiretap: This just in from Trump White House, volatility edging toward...

How bad are things in Trumpworld  these days? According to a deeply reported Washington Post piece, it might even be worse than you think....

Congressional dustup over farm dust: A problem the White House says...

A bill that aims to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating farm dust addresses an imaginary problem and could choke critical powers from the Clean Air Act, according to opponents.

VIDEO: Polis and Bennet join with White House on anti-bullying efforts

As efforts to reduce school bullying reach the White House, Coloradans take leadership roles.

Colorado activists to rally at capitol ahead of Cancun climate talks

Colorado climate-change activists will converge on the west steps of the state capitol building in Denver Wednesday evening in conjunction with a national demonstration...

Reports show White House mishandled oil spill response

President Obama’s May directive to triple the number of people working to stop the Gulf oil spill may have actually hindered the government’s response. The Coast Guard, in the days after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion, kept track of the government’s response to the spill on a “simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.” The White House denied a request by government scientists in the weeks after the spill to release worst-case oil flow rate scenarios to the public.

New Yorker story details Senate breakdown on climate bill

The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change...

Republican Senatorial Committee still pushing Romanoff-White House story

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is emailing around a story posted by The Hill today that reports the non-news that Sen. Michael Bennet knew...

Romanoff: White House made offers but didn’t push him to exit...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff said Wednesday night that after the media reported his plans to run for Senate last spring, White House officials informed him of their intent to support his opponent, incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, for the seat and suggested Romanoff might be interested in one of three possible though "not guaranteed" jobs.

Tancredo wrong: Romanoff said nothing about White House job offer

Filling in for Denver talk-radio host Peter Boyles, former Congressman Tom Tancredo repeated an inaccurate version of the Romanoff- White House job-offer story that...

Rove rejects ‘birtherism’; hits back at Tancredo

Colorado conservative talk radio has been on fire of late considering the birther conspiracy, spurred by Greeley native Lt. Col. Terry Lakin's coming court...