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Trump picks Senate candidate Sam Brown to head VA memorial affairs
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Trump picks Senate candidate Sam Brown to head VA memorial affairs

By Leo Shane III | Military Times President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped former Nevada Senate candidate Sam Brown to serve as the head of cemetery and memorial affairs for the Department of Veterans Affairs, putting a combat-wounded veteran in charge of the key post. In a statement on social media, Trump called Brown “an American hero” who will work “to ensure we put America’s veterans first and remember all who served.” Brown, 41, is a West Point alumnus who served in the Army for five years after graduation. During a deployment to Afghanistan in 2008, he was severely wounded by an improvised explosive device. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE MILITARY TIMES
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Man who dragged Brighton officer with car sentenced to decades in prison
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Man who dragged Brighton officer with car sentenced to decades in prison

By Janet Oravetz  | Denver Gazette, via 9News A man who injured a Brighton Police Department officer when he attempted to drive away to avoid being arrested was sentenced Wednesday morning to 20 years in prison. Robert Trujillo, 51, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree assault related to the August 2023 incident at Overland Trail Middle School. On Aug. 16, 2023, officers responded to the school after learning that Trujillo, who was wanted on a felony domestic violence warrant was sitting in a car at the school. Officers arrived and one parked in front of Trujillo's vehicle and a second parked behind him. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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California fires: Insurance companies dropping coverage and fleeing the state due to decades-old law
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California fires: Insurance companies dropping coverage and fleeing the state due to decades-old law

By Breck Dumas  | Fox Business California's insurance crisis is expected to get even worse after the devastating wildfires raging in the state, and experts say a decades-old law plays a significant role in why insurance companies have fled the state in recent years. In 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, which gave the state's Department of Insurance the power to approve rates or even roll them back. So, insurance companies that want to raise rates have to go through a regulatory process that can take months or even years, hindering their ability to adequately adjust rates to cover their losses and assess risk.  "Prop 103 is essentially price controls," said Steven Greenhut, western region director for the R Street Institute in Sacramento. "It puts the kibosh on t...
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TikTok’s future hangs in balance at Friday’s Supreme Court arguments 
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TikTok’s future hangs in balance at Friday’s Supreme Court arguments 

By Zach Schonfeld and Julia Shapero  | The Hill TikTok’s future will hang in the balance Friday when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over a federal law that could ban the video-sharing platform nationwide in less than 10 days.  In its waning days, the Biden-era Justice Department will square off in the courtroom against lawyers for TikTok and several creators in a seismic battle that pits national security against free speech.  “The whole point of the First Amendment is that the government can’t shut down speech that it thinks is against its interests,” said Liberty Justice Center President Jacob Huebert, a member of the creators’ legal team.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Horse rescued after falling into icy pond in Northern Colorado
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Horse rescued after falling into icy pond in Northern Colorado

By Jennifer McRae | CBS Colorado Fire crews with Loveland Fire Authority rescued a horse that had fallen into an icy pond in Northern Colorado. Crews rushed to the pond on South County Road 13 on Thursday where a horse found a way through the fence and onto a frozen pond.  Firefighters said the pond could not support the horse's weight and ended up in the icy waters in the middle of the pond. The horse could not get back to shore.  Firefighters donned ice rescue suits and broke apart the ice using axes and sledgehammers. Eventually, they were able to walk the horse to shore after clearing a path.  READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Two Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices agree with Democrat appointees in allowing Trump sentencing to proceed
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Two Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices agree with Democrat appointees in allowing Trump sentencing to proceed

By Fred Lucas  | Daily Signal The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a New York court from sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the “hush money” case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of fraud in relation to the case last spring in a prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. New York Justice Juan Merchan is scheduled to hand down a sentence on Friday for the former and future president. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL
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California Democrats held special session to ‘Trump-proof’ the state as fires rage
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California Democrats held special session to ‘Trump-proof’ the state as fires rage

By Emily Hallas | Washington Examiner California Democrats are being denounced for calling a special legislative session to target the incoming Trump administration as the state reels from devastating wildfires.  At the direction of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), the state legislature convened on Thursday to move forward with plans to provide $25 million to the California Department of Justice in preparation for lawsuits against the incoming Trump administration.  The move prompted immediate backlash from California Republicans, who argued that instead of focusing on “Trump-proofing” the state, Democrats should be invested in “fire-proofing California.”  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Juan Merchan sentences Trump to unconditional discharge: No Penalty, conviction upheld
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Juan Merchan sentences Trump to unconditional discharge: No Penalty, conviction upheld

By Nick Gilbertson | Breitbart Justice Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge in the Manhattan business records case on Friday, which does not penalize him, though it upholds the jury’s felony conviction. Trump declared that the sentence itself proved the case must be dismissed. “That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED,” he wrote in post on Truth Social. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Colorado Springs native explores abandoned places in award-winning podcast
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Colorado Springs native explores abandoned places in award-winning podcast

By Jennifer Mulson | The Gazette Anemoia is one of Blake Pfeil’s favorite words. Author John Koenig coined the unofficial English word, which means a longing for a time or place you’ve never known, in his 2021 book, “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” a collection of words he dreamed up for emotions not described in English. It’s an apt word for Pfeil, a Colorado Springs native, who explores abandoned spaces around the globe in his award-winning “Abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast.” Season three launched a week ago. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other streaming services, as well as blakepfeil.com/audio. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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SB3 would ban manufacture, sale of semiauto guns that accept detachable magazines
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SB3 would ban manufacture, sale of semiauto guns that accept detachable magazines

By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun The purchase, sale and manufacture of semiautomatic guns that accept detachable ammunition magazines would be banned in Colorado under a bill introduced Wednesday by Democrats on the first day of the state legislature’s 2025 lawmaking term.  Senate Bill 3 would affect many pistols and rifles, whose manufacturers don’t appear to make versions of the weapons without removable magazines. The legislation also would outlaw rapid-fire trigger activators and bump stocks, which can make a semiautomatic firearm fire at a rate similar to that of an automatic weapon. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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