Tag: trump
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Trump administration investigates Cherry Creek School District for alleged racial discrimination
The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Cherry Creek School District on Monday over allegations of racial discrimination. The department said its Office for Civil Rights is reviewing claims that the district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by sponsoring “a wide range of racially-discriminatory programming.” The complaints alleged the district…
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Moderates are not our salvation | Mike Rosen
The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely inaccurate. A stark example is Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who was elected governor of Virginia in 2025 as a self-declared moderate, promising not to redistrict the state if elected, having branded gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy” as a Congresswoman in 2019. In her first…
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Trump says not to rush as details emerge of a potential Iran deal
CAIRO (AP) — The United States is close to reaching a deal with Iran that would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, regional officials told The Associated Press on Sunday, though U.S. President Donald Trump said he told representatives “not to rush…
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Trump talks up his ballroom plan while playing down Americans’ economic pain
WASHINGTON • Standing in front of the White House ballroom construction site, President Donald Trump appealed for patience from Americans struggling with soaring gas prices as he sought to justify the cost of a project critics call a vanity effort. “This is peanuts,” he said on Tuesday in an apparent reference to the economic damage…
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LETTERS: Frustrated with deliveries; we all need a hug
Frustrated with deliveries I’m at my wits’ end with all the UPS, FedEx, and Amazon delivery drivers. It seems that since the pandemic ended, they have gotten lazy.They don’t ring doorbells, and lately I’ve had packages delivered in front of my garage doors in the rain. I was home at the time. Is it so…
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Trump unharmed after shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The president was uninjured and was hustled away. Guests…
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What we know about nearly a dozen scientists who went missing, died, or were murdered
The Trump administration is probing concerns surrounding nearly a dozen scientists said to be connected to highly secretive space research whose deaths and disappearances are under increasing scrutiny. President Donald Trump called the situation “pretty serious stuff” last Thursday, revealing he had just attended a meeting about the scientists and promised the government would probe…
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Signs that Democrats have gone stark raving mad | Mike Rosen
In 2024, Donald Trump was elected president by 77 million Americans, two million more than the 75 million who voted for Kamala Harris. Republicans also won a majority in the U.S. House and Senate, giving the GOP a federal trifecta and a governing mandate. Democrats had a similar governing mandate during the first two years of the Obama administration and the first two years of the…
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LETTERS: Colorado is failing; becoming less affordable
Colorado is failing All the tax-paying citizens of Colorado are now witnessing the true damage the Democrats have done to our once great state of Colorado. The budget deficit started at a billion dollars, now the honest story is a billion five hundred million dollars in the HOLE. What is the real number? As of…
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LETTERS: Wailing and gnashing of teeth; people instead of parties
Why so much anger and fuss? One might imagine from all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Tri-Lakes area that Beelzebub himself is planning to build a den of iniquity at the corner of I-25 and County Line Road. Why so much anger and fuss over a Buc-ee’s? Few would disagree that unspoiled…