u.s. justice department
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Bennet, Hickenlooper team up on legislation aiming to protect election workers
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U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined a team of Democratic lawmakers in sponsoring legislation to address threats made against election workers. The bill arises from several efforts: A year ago, the U.S. Justice Department, responding to a rising number of threats against election workers, set up a task force to assess allegations of those…
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Denver Homeland Security official asks Congress to help human trafficking victims
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WASHINGTON – A Denver-based U.S. Homeland Security Department official supported legislation requiring more assistance for human trafficking victims during a congressional hearing Wednesday. Many of the victims are severely traumatized when law officers extract them from forced labor or the sex trade, according to expert witnesses at a U.S. House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing. They…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner draws fire from national police union
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It’s usually a friend to the GOP, having endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016, but the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest law-enforcement labor union, has come out swinging at Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. What’s the beef? Gardner’s vow to hold up nominees to the many vacant posts in the U.S. Justice…
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Former Colorado Attorney General J.D. MacFarlane backs Democratic AG candidate Phil Weiser
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J.D. MacFarlane, one of only two Democrats elected attorney general in Colorado in nearly 70 years, endorsed Democratic attorney general candidate Phil Weiser this week, saying the former University of Colorado Law School dean will bring “energy, innovation, and vision” to the office during a time he termed “challenging.” “I know from personal experience that…
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Supreme Court case influences use of Native American names for sports teams
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling is pending in a trademark registration case likely to influence policies in Colorado on the use of Native American names for sports teams. An Oregon rock band called The Slants is challenging a denial by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register a trademark for its name. Trademark officials…
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Trump opens first full day on job at church
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President Donald Trump opened his first full day as president Saturday at a national prayer service, the final piece of transition business for the nation’s new chief executive before a promised full-on shift into governing. Trump and his wife, Melania, and Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, sat in a front pew at…
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May: Lost in cyberspace
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Cyberespionage is a concern, but cyberwarfare is far more serious Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee was mischievous. Did it change the outcome of the 2016 elections? No evidence suggests that and the intelligence community isn’t claiming that. So those who are may be presumed to have an agenda: to establish the narrative that…
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Yes, the FBI is now investigating the Aurora VA hospital
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing allegations that Veterans Affairs Department officials lied to Congress to cover up huge cost overruns at a hospital being built in Aurora. The Justice Department revealed the FBI investigation in a Dec. 9 letter to Congress that was made public a week later. The projected cost of the…
