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Trump to declare end to nation-building, propose ideological tests for immigrants if elected
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Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other extremist organizations. In a speech Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the United States needs to work with anyone who shares that mission, regardless of other ideological…
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In reversal, Trump says IS claim about Obama was sarcastic
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After days of alleging repeatedly that President Barack Obama literally founded the Islamic State group, Donald Trump abruptly shifted tone on Friday and insisted his widely debunked claim had been sarcastic. Trump, in an early-morning post on Twitter, blamed CNN for reporting “so seriously” that he had called Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the extremist…
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Trump refuses to back away from false claim Obama founded ISIS
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Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group on Thursday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position. A day after lobbing the attack against the president during a rowdy rally, Trump pressed ahead during a round of interviews. The Republican presidential nominee brushed off…
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Coloradans deliver icons to families of martyred Christians in Egypt
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A delegation from Colorado traveled more than 14,000 miles earlier this month to meet with families of the Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded last year by militants aligned with ISIS. They made the trip to honor the families’ loss and in hopes of spreading the word about what one calls the “ongoing holocaust of Christianity in the…
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Silverii: Congress should follow Colorado’s lead on gun safety
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The shocking violence committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in Florida, on June 12 has horrified us all. The attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando has brought together the combined threats of terrorism, gun violence and hate our nation faces today. Here in Colorado, our state’s painful history of mass murder has…
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Polis calls for end to gay blood donor ban in wake of Orlando massacre
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In the hours after a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday left 50 dead and dozens wounded, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis took to Twitter to demand the federal Food and Drug Administration rescind its recommendation that sexually active gay men can’t donate blood. “My blood is as good as yours (O+ in…
