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Colorado hires range riders to protect livestock from wolves as Boebert pushes to delist wolves
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Colorado hires range riders to protect livestock from wolves as Boebert pushes to delist wolves

By Spencer Wilson | CBS Colorado Colorado wildlife officials are working to hire range riders to protect livestock from the recently reintroduced wolves as some elected officials are pushing to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose district includes much of Colorado's Eastern Plains, is part of an effort to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. The Pet and Livestock Protection Act aims to give states control over their own gray wolf populations. Ranchers have continuously raised concerns about wolves preying on livestock while wildlife biologists and environmental activists say wolves are vital to keeping ecological balance and preventing certain species from becoming overpopulated.  READ THE F...
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Swastika returns to Denver building days after window was smashed out
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Swastika returns to Denver building days after window was smashed out

By The Denver Gazette A Denver window that displayed a swastika was smashed out on Tuesday. Yet days later, the symbol appears to have returned in a different window on the same building in the Congress Park neighborhood. The window first drew attention on a Facebook group last week. The Denver Police Department said reports of its appearance were sent to its bias motivated crimes unit. Police are investigating after the window was damaged early Tuesday morning. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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New El Paso County coroner taking a ‘behind the scenes’ role in contrast to predecessor
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New El Paso County coroner taking a ‘behind the scenes’ role in contrast to predecessor

By Savannah Eller | The Gazette Dr. Emily Russell-Kinsley didn’t always want to be a forensic pathologist, but unlike most middle schoolers, she did know what the title meant. Growing up in an Oklahoma family of physicians, she was a grade-school fan of the popular series of crime novels by Patricia Cornwell following Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Scarpetta, victim of her main-character status, is constantly in the crosshairs of fictional bad guys. That kind of attention, even more than the duties entailed by the job, put Russell-Kinsley off the profession as a child. She has always been a self-described behind-the-scenes person. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Sen. Faith Winter’s mea culpa to Senate related to past alcohol abuse
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Sen. Faith Winter’s mea culpa to Senate related to past alcohol abuse

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster, publicly apologized in the state Senate on Friday over problems tied to alcohol abuse. Last July, a Senate ethics committee decided Winter had violated a Senate ethics rule when residents said she showed up drunk at a public meeting in Thornton on April 3. The ethics committee concluded, 4-1, that Winter violated Rule 41, which requires her, as a member of the Senate, to perform her “legislative duties at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and independence of the Senate and of the General Assembly.” READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Nebraska threatens to condemn land in Colorado for a canal to carry away South Platte River water
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Nebraska threatens to condemn land in Colorado for a canal to carry away South Platte River water

By Parker Yamasaki | The Colorado Sun Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sent a letter to county commissioners in northeastern Colorado earlier this week pledging to defend their rights if Nebraska tries to condemn land for the proposed Perkins County Canal Project. Six landowners in Sedgwick County, where the South Platte River flows out of the state, received notices of condemnation from the state of Nebraska on Jan. 17, offering $1.4 million for about 650 acres of land, according to Nebraska Public Media.  The landowners were given 90 days to sell or face eminent domain. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Trump agrees to delay tariffs after Mexican President vows to send troops to border
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Trump agrees to delay tariffs after Mexican President vows to send troops to border

By David Zimmermann | National Review President Donald Trump agreed to delay the imposition of sweeping tariffs on Mexico by one month after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to send 10,000 troops to the southern border to help the U.S. curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking. The agreement came Monday morning, two days after Trump signed three executive orders authorizing 25 percent tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada and a lower 10 percent tariff on products from China. Trump spoke with Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, both of whom vowed a retaliatory response to the U.S. tariffs. Trump confirmed the long-awaited tariffs on Mexico were paused for one month to allow room for negotiations, ho...
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Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency
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Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency

By Rob Bluey | Commentary, Daily Signal Two years after a train derailment exposed residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to hazardous chemicals, the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is making the village his first official visit Monday. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman from Long Island, won his Senate confirmation vote Wednesday afternoon, spent Thursday and Friday meeting with agency employees, and now heads with Vice President JD Vance to the Ohio community still reeling from the catastrophic train crash on Feb. 3, 2023. Zeldin invited The Daily Signal and a half-dozen other reporters to the EPA’s headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue last week to preview his plans for the agency. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor’s note: Opinions e...
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USAID staffers told to stay home after Musk said Trump agreed to shutter it
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USAID staffers told to stay home after Musk said Trump agreed to shutter it

By Simon Kent | Breitbart Stay at home and don’t bother to come into the office. That was the message to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday who were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters. The advice came via a notice distributed to the career bureaucrats, AP reports, after Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency down. According to AP, USAID staffers said they “also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.” READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Canada punches back against Trump with major tariffs of its own as trade war set to begin on Tuesday
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Canada punches back against Trump with major tariffs of its own as trade war set to begin on Tuesday

By Christopher Guly  | Fox Business Canada is responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs imposed on Saturday against its northern neighbor with its own major retaliatory measures, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced late Saturday night. As of Tuesday, when the U.S. tariffs take effect, Canada will impose 25% duties on about $21 billion of American goods with a further $86 billion to follow within 21 days to allow Canadian companies and supply chains to find alternatives, Trudeau told reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, surrounded by his foreign affairs, finance and public safety ministers. He said the Canadian tariffs on U.S. imports will cover a "far-reaching" range of products, including American beer, wine, bourbon, fruits and frui...
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China threatens to retaliate against Trump tariffs
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China threatens to retaliate against Trump tariffs

By Danielle Wallace  | Fox Business Beijing is threatening to retaliate against the United States as President Donald Trump's 10% tariffs on China are expected to take effect Tuesday.  The White House announced on Saturday that the Trump administration is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China, in a move intended to hold the three countries "accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country."  Namely with Beijing, the White House said Chinese officials "have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels and shut down money laundering by transnational c...
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