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Officials at one Colorado school district help student declare herself homeless before moving in with teacher
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Officials at one Colorado school district help student declare herself homeless before moving in with teacher

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado The Jefferson County School District is apologizing to the parents of a Columbine High School student after school officials helped the student lie on a federal form and then hid it from her parents so she could move in with a teacher. According to investigators hired by the district, the student - a 17-year-old female - was involved in an inappropriate relationship with social studies teacher Leann Kearney. They say Kearney was "grooming" the girl.  Heather McCormick is friends with the girl's mom and says there were red flags long before the district hired investigators, "There's this icky feeling that something is wrong and as it progressed it only got worse. Not a single person stood up and said something doesn't seem right and reached out to ...
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Aurora passes ordinance that removes warning time before homeless camp sweeps
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Aurora passes ordinance that removes warning time before homeless camp sweeps

By Kyla Pearce | Colorado Politics, via The Denver Gazette Aurora lawmakers officially passed an ordinance in a final vote Monday night that gets rid of requirements to provide shelter options and 72-hour notice before sweeping homeless encampments. The ordinance, which was passed in an initial vote at the last council meeting and in a final vote Monday night, prevailed with three 'no' votes from councilmembers Alison Coombs, Ruben Medina and Crystal Murillo. Previously, city code read that "no city employee authorized to issue a citation shall issue a citation, make an arrest, or otherwise enforce this section against a person camping on public property unless the city has a shelter option available for the person ordered to move from the camp and the person has been offered plac...
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Douglas Co. leaders weigh which three Highlands Ranch schools to close while prioritizing safety, continuity
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Douglas Co. leaders weigh which three Highlands Ranch schools to close while prioritizing safety, continuity

By Erica Breunlin | The Colorado Sun As Douglas County School District leaders and board members weigh closing three schools in Highlands Ranch, they’ll prioritize keeping together groups of students and staff from individual schools, ensuring student safety in traffic zones and analyzing current and future enrollment projections. Those are among the parameters the board approved Tuesday to guide them in determining which schools to close beginning in the 2026-27 school year from a list of 16 schools. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Judge won’t halt Trump, Musk federal worker buyout program
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Judge won’t halt Trump, Musk federal worker buyout program

By Rebecca Beitsch | The Hill A federal judge declined to further pause a federal government buyout program, enabling the government to forge ahead with its “Fork in the Road” program. U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole had extended the time frame for federal employees to decide whether to take the unusual offer, which gives employees eight months of pay and benefits if they wish to depart government. In a Wednesday ruling, O’Toole found that the unions who had sued over the directive did not have standing to do so. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Trump’s Dept. of Education sees early wins ahead of Linda McMahon confirmation hearing
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Trump’s Dept. of Education sees early wins ahead of Linda McMahon confirmation hearing

By Katherine Hamilton | Breitbart President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (DOE) has seen a burst of early victories since Jan. 20 and ahead of Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon’s confirmation hearing on Thursday morning. Ultimately, the 45th and 47th president wants to see the DOE abolished and more power sent back to states and communities, and he has quipped that he wants McMahon “to put herself out of a job.” But for the time being, the DOE has feverishly tackled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, gender ideology, antisemitism, and wasteful spending that been woven into the fabric of the American education system. Many of the changes have been prompted by Trump’s sweeping executive orders, which have prompted whole-of-govern...
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Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as next HHS Secretary
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Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as next HHS Secretary

By Robert McGreevy | Daily Caller The Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday. He has received 51 votes as of publication. The vote was mostly along party lines, though former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the lone GOP holdout. The Senate confirmed Kennedy Jr. after a night of fierce debate and a nomination process fraught with fierce opposition. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY CALLER
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In 10th Circuit, case asks can writing a bad check 17 years ago prevent gun ownership today?
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In 10th Circuit, case asks can writing a bad check 17 years ago prevent gun ownership today?

By Amanda Pampuro | Courthouse News The 10th Circuit on Tuesday reaffirmed its decision to deny a firearm to a Utah woman with a decade-old check fraud conviction on her record.   Melynda Vincent wrote a fraudulent check for $498.12 at a grocery store in 2008 when she was homeless and fighting drug addiction. She faced up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine but pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation without imprisonment. Today she is a social worker in private practice who also runs the Utah Harm Reduction Coalition. READ THE FULL STORY AT COURTHOUSE NEWS
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Rep. Bottoms’ HB 1145, prohibiting trafficking of minors into state for reproductive services, killed in committee
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Rep. Bottoms’ HB 1145, prohibiting trafficking of minors into state for reproductive services, killed in committee

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Rep. Scott Bottoms may have learned Tuesday that perception is indeed reality. Despite multiple attempts to position his House Bill 25-1145 as another attempt to hold accountable child traffickers he has witnessed operating over two decades, his bill was shredded in the House's Judiciary Committee for surface concerns it was rather an anti-abortion, anti-transgender bill. "This is a bill trying to stop trafficking and the abuse of our children," said Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor. "This is another shot at just trying to put these people in jail." The bill would prohibit the taking, or trafficking, of a minor across state lines into Colorado for the purpose of reproductive health-care services. It was postponed indefinitely by a 7-4 pa...
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22 blue states including Colorado joined secret anti-Trump resistance pact
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22 blue states including Colorado joined secret anti-Trump resistance pact

By Logan Washburn | The Federalist State attorneys general of nearly half the country have signed a secret resistance pact against a key facet of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. “Of all the things in the world they could have picked — gas, groceries, protecting minorities, making sure kids can get their genitals chopped off, whatever else they claim is their top priority — instead, it’s birthright citizenship,” Mike Howell, executive director of The Oversight Project, told The Federalist. “It shows that the border policies were always political.” Twenty-two top attorneys in Democrat states, alongside the lead attorneys of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., signed a “common interest agreement" beginning on Nov....
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Arizona border quiet, ‘like the faucet got turned off’
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Arizona border quiet, ‘like the faucet got turned off’

By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner Illegal migrant crossings over Arizona’s 373-mile border with Mexico have dried up in the 18 days President Donald Trump has been in office. State officials told Secrets that the crossings have been reduced to about 5% of what they were under former President Joe Biden. During his one term, about 2 million migrants crossed Arizona’s border. “It’s like the faucet got turned off,” Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen told Secrets. READ THE FULL STORY ON THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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