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‘Unprecedented’ flooding prompts evacuations in southwest Colorado; Polis issues disaster declaration
LA PLATA COUNTY — Flooding brought on by heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Priscilla is damaging homes and prompting evacuations in southwest Colorado. The Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Management Monday afternoon issued a flood warning for the county until 3 p.m. Wednesday. A local disaster was declared in unincorporated La Plata County Saturday…
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Venezuela’s opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the award in part to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it. Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela’s courts…
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U.S. to build a training facility for Qatari pilots
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday. Hegseth, who made the announcement during a visit by Qatar’s defense minister, said the facility to be built at…
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Explosives plant blast leaves 19 people missing, feared dead
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McEWEN, Tenn. — A blast leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said. “There’s nothing to describe. It’s gone,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said of the blast site at Accurate Energetic Systems, which…
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Why are government jobs growing faster than private jobs? | Vince Bzdek
By Vince Bzdek A couple of numbers keep bugging me. Over the past 12 months, the number of Colorado government jobs has grown by 12,000 while private jobs increased by 10,200 jobs, according to the Common Sense Institute. The government grew faster than the private sector. That’s pretty weird, given the private sector is about…
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Whiskey collection is one of a kind at famed Colorado hotel
ESTES PARK • In the lower level of one of Colorado’s most famous hotels, at the end of a hallway across from a secret tunnel, strangers sit around a narrow table in a narrow, warmly lit room. A host stands at the head of the table. “We’re gonna have some fun,” he says. The whiskey…
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Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died
LONDON (AP) — Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist’s death Wednesday in an Instagram post. While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed…
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The legacy and loss of Colorado’s once-mighty glaciers
High in the Indian Peaks Wilderness beyond her home in Boulder, Millie Spencer has been venturing to an extreme, jagged place of rock and ice. “Especially since I became obsessed with this idea of watching its decline,” she said. Like others before her, the Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado-Boulder has been drawn to…