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Wyoming governor primary: Trump’s GOP pick loses; Dems add to woman candidate roster

Aug 22, 2018

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Wyoming Republicans nominated state treasurer Mark Gordon for governor on Tuesday, in a blow to President Trump after his eleventh-hour endorsement of investor Foster Friess. With more than 99 percent of the vote counted, Gordon, 61, was declared the winner over five other Republicans, including Friess, who was backed by Trump after securing the support…
Feds propose selling former national monument lands

Aug 17, 2018

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By Darryl Fears and Dino Grandoni | The Washington Post The Trump administration is proposing to dispose of federal land in Utah that was protected within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument until its boundary was redrawn by the Interior Department earlier this year – despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s assurance last year that he would…
Coffman tries to block deportation of Peruvian child adopted by Colo. couple

Aug 14, 2018

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By Amy B. Wang | The Washington Post When Amy and Marco Becerra first laid eyes on the girl they would soon adopt, she was a tiny, 11-day-old baby in an orphanage in Peru. A woman there told the couple that the infant had been abandoned, Amy Becerra said. “She literally placed this little five-pound,…
Tuesday primaries: Wisconsin, Minnesota voters pick nominees in key contests

Aug 14, 2018

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By David Weigel | The Washington Post Two major Midwest swing states will pick their nominees for the midterm elections Tuesday, as will two deep blue states where Republicans like their chances at electing or reelecting center-right governors. Minnesota Democrats control every statewide office in Minnesota – a rarity in the Midwest. Two of those…
Rafters, anglers worry as Colo.’s famed whitewater becomes low water

Aug 10, 2018

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By Jennifer Oldham, Special to The Washington Post KREMMLING – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. The extremes…
Facebook uncovers political disinformation operation ahead of midterm elections

Jul 31, 2018

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Facebook said Tuesday that it had discovered a sophisticated coordinated disinformation operation on its platform involving 32 false pages and profiles engaging in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The social media company that it couldn’t tie the activity to Russia, which interfered on its platform around the 2016 presidential election. But Facebook…
Denver fights back against Trump’s deportation crackdown with surprisingly simple change in law

May 28, 2017

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As the Trump administration’s war on “sanctuary cities” heats up, cities have come up with increasingly creative ways to fight back. The latest example comes from Denver, which just passed a law aimed at protecting legal immigrants from being deported for committing relatively petty crimes, those carrying maximum sentences of 365 days – the federal…
Sessions’ war on drugs causing uncertainty in medical marijuana industry, concern in advocates

May 17, 2017

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WASHINGTON – A little-noticed document issued by President Donald Trump has put advocates of medical marijuana on edge, raising questions about the long-term security of programs now authorized in 29 states and the District that have broad public backing. In a “signing statement” that accompanied Trump’s signature on the bill passed this month to keep…
What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen

Apr 10, 2017

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No one could have known it at the time, but at the end of last summer, Justice Elena Kagan gave Neil M. Gorsuch a face-to-face tutorial on what it means to be the Supreme Court’s newest justice. It starts in the kitchen. “I’ve been on the cafeteria committee for six years. (Justice) Steve Breyer was…
Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court

Apr 7, 2017

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The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, capping more than a year of bitter partisan bickering over the ideological balance of the nation’s highest court. Senators voted to confirm Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, who will become the…