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AI Review Flags Hundreds of Reporting Gaps for Griswold and Weiser Campaigns
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, State

AI Review Flags Hundreds of Reporting Gaps for Griswold and Weiser Campaigns

By: Marianne Goodland | The Denver Gazette Using artificial intelligence as analytical tool, a resident of Longmont has filed complaints against two prominent Colorado Democrats, alleging multiple campaign finance violations. The complaints are among a growing number of campaign finance allegations against individuals running for some of Colorado’s top jobs. What’s unique with the complaints is the use of AI as a data or analytical tool. On Nov. 20, Jeffrey Ethan Au Green of Longmont filed a complaint against Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is running to succeed Weiser, was the subject of a Nov. 2 complaint, also filed by Au Green. Four Democrats ar...
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New X.com Feature Reveals Surge of Overseas Operators Pushing Misinformation
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TownHall.com, Approved, National

New X.com Feature Reveals Surge of Overseas Operators Pushing Misinformation

By Dmitri Bolt | Townhall Elon Musk’s company, X, recently launched a new feature on Friday that reveals the country of origin for every user account. The update is already raising eyebrows, offering a glimpse into how foreign-operated accounts may be using the platform to push misinformation on what has become one of the most politically consequential social media sites. Many of the accounts based in foreign countries are pretending to represent the America First agenda. https://twitter.com/authorrochelle/status/1992635515573580190?s=20 For example, an account called "@1776General_" which describes the owner as a "constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American," with over 140,000 followers, is based in Turkey. The owner posted that they work in international business, an...
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Widow of Fallen Officer Urges Colorado to Close Loopholes in Competency Law
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Widow of Fallen Officer Urges Colorado to Close Loopholes in Competency Law

By: Vicente Arenas | KDVR FOX31 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado woman is making an urgent appeal to the governor and legislators to change competency laws she says are putting people in danger. Rachel Swayse’s husband was the police officer who was killed in the Planned Parenthood clinic shooting on Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs. The accused shooter, Robert Dear, has been found incompetent to stand trial. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Police Officer Garret Swasey was killed in the mass shooting. Officer Swasey’s wife, Rachel, is concerned that Dear and others in similar circumstances could go free under Colorado’s competency laws. “This has been a lingering concern of mine for years. We were told that the trial process could take years, and our...
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Campbell’s Soup Executive Benched After Lawsuit Alleges Mockery of Customers and Coworkers
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Fox Business, Approved, National

Campbell’s Soup Executive Benched After Lawsuit Alleges Mockery of Customers and Coworkers

By: Christina Shaw | FOX Business Martin Bally placed on temporary leave as company conducts internal investigation following lawsuit. Accusations are making their rounds after a Campbell Soup Company executive allegedly made disparaging comments regarding the company’s customers and employees. The executive was secretly recorded during a meeting, according to a lawsuit filed in Michigan’s Wayne County Circuit Court. The suit, filed by Robert Garza, a former cybersecurity analyst for Campbell Soup, accuses Martin Bally, the company’s vice president and chief information security officer, of making the offensive comments during a meeting in November 2024. Garza recorded the conversation, which he said took place at the company’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey,...
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Data Breach Spurs Colorado Law Enforcement to Seek More Reliable Alert Systems
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DENVER7, Approved, State

Data Breach Spurs Colorado Law Enforcement to Seek More Reliable Alert Systems

By: Maggie Bryan | Denver7 CodeRED is an emergency alert platform used by dozens of Colorado agencies to notify residents about fire evacuations, active shooters, and weather advisories. DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — Several Colorado law enforcement agencies say they're either terminating or reevaluating contracts with CodeRED, an emergency alert system, after the company fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this month. Crisis24, the company that owns the CodeRED platform, confirmed that data including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords of users signed up for alerts may have been leaked in the data breach. Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said his office was not contacted by Crisis 24 until deputies tried to send out a CodeRED alert to residents ab...
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Colorado cuts health subsidies for illegal immigrants with lottery system deciding who keeps coverage
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Colorado Public Radio, Approved, State

Colorado cuts health subsidies for illegal immigrants with lottery system deciding who keeps coverage

By Mateo Schimpf | CPR News On Nov. 17, phones started lighting up at a first-floor office in north Denver. Hundreds of people wanted to know whether they had won the lottery, and if not, if they had other options. The callers were not looking for the winning Powerball combination. They wanted to know whether they would be able to afford health insurance next year. The days leading up to Nov. 17 were excruciating for Blanca, who’s 52 and a single mother, and whose last name we’re not using because of concerns she could be targeted by federal law enforcement due to her immigration status.  She’s among 12,000 undocumented Coloradans who received subsidies from the state to get free health insurance through the OmniSalud program in 2025. But she had to wait to see if she w...
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Updated Count Shows Over 300 Students Missing After Attack on Catholic School in Nigeria
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Updated Count Shows Over 300 Students Missing After Attack on Catholic School in Nigeria

By The Associated Press | AP News ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria said Saturday, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren. The tally was changed “after a verification exercise and a final census was carried out,” according to a statement issued by the Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Niger state chapter of CAN, who visited the school on Friday. He said 88 other students “were also captured after they tried to escape” during the attack. The students were both male and female and ranged in age from 10 to 18. The school kidnapping in Niger state’s remote...
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Unsealed Filing Says Meta Misled the Public and Endangered Children
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TIME, Approved, National

Unsealed Filing Says Meta Misled the Public and Endangered Children

By Charlotte Alter | TIME Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”  “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly testified, adding that “by any measure across the industry, [it was] a very, very high strike threshold.” The plaintiffs claim th...
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Audit Raises Questions Over DPS Debt Practices As Taxpayers Foot the Bill
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, Local

Audit Raises Questions Over DPS Debt Practices As Taxpayers Foot the Bill

By Nico Brambila | The Denver Gazette Denver Public Schools is operating with a negative net position — owing more in long-term obligations than it holds in assets — a rare and troubling financial posture for a major Colorado school district, according to an audit. Presented on Thursday, the audit for fiscal year 2024–25, which ended June 30, showed the district is carrying $4.07 billion in long-term liabilities. (For context, the district budget last fiscal year was about $1.5 billion.) Total assets remained lower, even after the district added nearly $1 billion in unspent 2024 bond proceeds to its books — cash voters approved a year ago that had not yet been put to use. As those bond dollars are spent, the cash asset will disappear, while the long-term debt remains,...
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Xcel Energy’s Plans for 2026 Rate Hike Draws Pushback from Communities
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DENVER7, Approved, State

Xcel Energy’s Plans for 2026 Rate Hike Draws Pushback from Communities

By Claire Lavezzorio | Denver7 Denver7 is listening to the community after Xcel Energy announced proposed rate hikes. COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Denver7 is listening to the community after Xcel Energy announced Friday it wants to increase electric rates in Colorado by nearly 10% in 2026. Commerce City resident Lucy Molina told Denver7 it's going to force some families to make difficult choices. "Do I pay my electric bill, or do I eat?" said Molina. Robert Kenney, President of Xcel Energy Colorado, told Denver7 Friday that the increase is to recover investments in safety and reliability, like transmission, distribution, and generating facilities the company has made over the past 3 years. The average residential customer would see their bill increase $9.94 per mont...
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