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Federal judge again declines to dismiss torture charges against West African man
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A federal judge this month again declined to dismiss multiple criminal charges on constitutional grounds in the unique prosecution of a West African man living in Colorado, whose alleged acts of torture in his home country could violate U.S. law. Michael Sang Correa faces seven torture-related counts for his involvement in the investigation of an…
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12 years in City Hall: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s triumphs and failures
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Outgoing Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, sits down with Denver Gazette for exclusive interviewTom HellauerTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knows what he’ll regret most from his three terms as the most powerful elected leader in Denver: Thanksgiving, 2020, when Hancock was caught traveling in the thick of a raging pandemic despite having urged the public to…
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Animal rights group continues legal quest in Colorado to ID elephant importer
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An animal advocacy organization that has been trying for four years to obtain the identities of those who import African elephant parts and trophies failed on Wednesday to convince the lone holdout company to drop its insistence on anonymity. Friends of Animals, which is based in Connecticut and has its western law office in Centennial,…
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Boulder County announces omicron case; patient has recent travel to South Africa
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Boulder County identified its first case of the omicron variant Friday, county officials said, 24 hours after Colorado confirmed its first case. The Boulder County man had recently traveled to South Africa, the county’s public health department said. The patient tested positive for COVID-19, and given their recent travel history, their sample was flagged for…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado oil man nominated as ambassador to Niger
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Longmont Republican Bill Casey was nominated by the Reagan administration to serve as ambassador to Niger. Casey, a mining engineer, had worked in Niger for Conoco Oil from 1977 to 1979 and said that he felt familiar with the country, its resources and its problems. Casey was awaiting his Senate…
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Congressional Democrats call for censure of president over remarks
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Amidst a broken deal on immigration, which some Democrats blame on the President Trump, Colorado’s congressional Democrats have joined in a resolution asking for a censure of the president. The resolution, HRes. 700 was introduced Thursday. It calls on Congress to censure the president over his reported remarks on Jan. 11 in which he called…
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Lamborn primary challenger Bill Rhea calls on Trump to resign over vulgar immigration remarks
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Bill Rhea, one of three Republicans challenging six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a primary, on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of an ongoing furor ignited by Trump’s use of the term “shithole” to describe African countries during an Oval Office discussion about U.S. immigration policy. “I am…
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Beall: It’s time for regime change at the University of Colorado
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President Bruce Benson’s stewardship of the state’s flagship university system has stalled, and neither he nor his massive administration is articulating a clear vision or mission for CU. The university system has strayed from its role as the state’s preeminent university and increasingly resembles a profit-seeking enterprise. From the beginning, Benson was an unlikely president…
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May: The West isn’t worse than the rest
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Americans and Europeans should stop apologizing to the world Intellectuals of the left and those influenced by them judge the United States and certain European nations as uniquely guilty of imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia – the list goes on. But is the West really different from the rest when it comes to…
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May: The war against history
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Islamists destroy the past to shape the future “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell in 1984, his classic novel. Today, various groups of Islamists – which we can define as…
