Daniel Beatty 
With an unusually high number of initiative petitions to consider this year, leaders in the Legislature have announced they will tackle the long list of potential ballot questions through the creation of a new special joint committee. The offices of House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka issued a joint statement on Monday, … Read more
The National Council of Canadian Muslims abruptly cancelled a meeting Monday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and accused his government of failing to protect Palestinians or take “tangible action” against hate crimes. “We no longer think it’s productive to speak with this prime minister,” chief executive Stephen Brown told a news conference. “There’s nothing new … Read more
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) opened a new feud within the MAGA wing of the Republican Party over the weekend when she endorsed ex-Navy SEAL and aerospace millionaire Tim Sheehy over Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) in the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate in Montana. “I’m thrilled to … Read more
By Sam McNeil | Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — The Islamic cemetery in southern Gaza was demolished, graves excised from the earth. A skull with no teeth rested atop the sandy, churned rubble. The neighborhood of Bani Suheila in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, which soldiers showed foreign journalists Saturday, was … Read more
It’s crazy to think we’re already less than two months away from a new Ghostbusters movie, but that’s exactly what’s happened. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait another two months to get a new trailer after getting the teaser back in November 2023, and what a doozy this one is. Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment released … Read more
Congress may have found at least one clear signal out of its partisan dead zone: cellphones. In a heated election year, in which a narrowly divided Congress is largely stalemated on most legislation and disrupted by heated rhetoric, fears about the impact of cellphones and social media on children have united political rivals. In rapid … Read more
As artificial intelligence starts to reshape society in ways predictable and not, some of Colorado’s highest-profile federal lawmakers are trying to establish guardrails without shutting down the technology altogether. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican, is cosponsoring legislation with California Democrat Ted Lieu to create a national commission focused on regulating the technology and … Read more
Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the border standoff between Texas and the federal government. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “When I was President, we had the most secure Border in History. Joe Biden has surrendered our Border, and is aiding and abetting a massive Invasion of millions of Illegal … Read more
House Republicans released two impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas Sunday, accusing the Department of Homeland Security Secretary of high crimes and misdemeanors for his implementation of US immigration policy. The first article charges Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” by implementing a so-called “catch and release” policy, which allows many … Read more
There are now a pair of border crises coming front and center into the race for the White House. The first is occurring hundreds of miles from either Mexico or Canada, in Washington D.C., where lawmakers recently learned their months-long efforts at reaching a compromise over new border security legislation may have been torpedoed by … Read more
