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Election win odds sour further on Harris after Fox interview
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Election win odds sour further on Harris after Fox interview

By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner Vice President Kamala Harris did not win over election gamblers, who drove her chances of victory down further. Among two of the largest election gambling aggregate sites, former President Donald Trump now holds his biggest advantage in weeks. Mark Mitchell, the head pollster at Rasmussen Reports, made a comment on X that echoed many suggesting that Harris did little to expand her base. “Did Harris realize she was supposed to be picking up new voters? Because that’s not what she did,” he wrote. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Millions being spent on state legislative races in final weeks before Election Day
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Millions being spent on state legislative races in final weeks before Election Day

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Outside groups hoping to influence voters about candidates running for seats in the state House and Senate are draining their bank accounts in the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election. That's about $3.5 million between Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, the most recent reporting period. Total spending is now well above $5.3 million, showing that most of those dollars are going to the state's hottest races. The expenditures range from as little as $1.09 for a Google ad to six-figure checks written to support Republican Western Slope candidates running for the state Senate. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
Whooping cough cases now back at pre-pandemic levels in Colorado, U.S.
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Whooping cough cases now back at pre-pandemic levels in Colorado, U.S.

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette Highly contagious respiratory illness whooping cough is making a comeback in Colorado after three years of a significant decline during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rates of pertussis — colloquially referred to a “whooping cough” — in Colorado decreased roughly 80% from 2020 through 2023, but now appear to be returning to pre-pandemic levels. “We’ve seen an increase compared to what we saw in the pandemic,” said Grace Nelson, a disease intervention unit supervisor with the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment. “It’s kind of a return to baseline.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
Tren de Aragua seizes four apartment complexes in major Texas city in new show of strength
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Tren de Aragua seizes four apartment complexes in major Texas city in new show of strength

By  Maryann Martinez | Daily Mail A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal. Dubbed the 'epitome of evil', Tren de Aragua (TdA) is known to run drug smuggling, child prostitution and human trafficking rings in South America, with its members crossing over into the US in recent years amid a wave of Venezuelan migrants.  The tattooed mobsters have since unleashed a wave of crime across the country from Miami and Texas to Denver and New York.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY MAIL
Donald Trump vows executive action to keep men off female sports teams
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Donald Trump vows executive action to keep men off female sports teams

By Katherine Hamilton | Breitbart Former President Donald Trump vowed to “just ban it” when questioned at a town hall for women that aired on Wednesday about keeping men from playing on female sports teams and entering female spaces. The all-women town hall was held in the battleground state of Georgia and aired at 11:00 a.m. on Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus.” The second question for the former president was about men who claim to be transgender and identify as women playing on female sports teams and entering female spaces, such as locker rooms. When host Harris Faulkner asked the women in attendance how many “are worried about biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports,” every hand in the audience went up. Then a woman with nine grandchildren,...
If you live in Denver, Larimer counties, you can expect marathon ballots to vote
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If you live in Denver, Larimer counties, you can expect marathon ballots to vote

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado Depending on where you live in Colorado, the 2024 election ballot may seem like you just sat down to start a new novel, with a storyline that hikes taxes and debt,  makes changes to city and county charters, bans “trophy” hunting of mountain lions when it’s already illegal, and allows government employees to collectively bargain, among myriad other things. Indeed, if 14 statewide ballot measures and a near like amount of judicial retention questions aren’t enough, many cities, towns, counties, school districts and other special taxing districts have piled on their own measures, making some ballots — such as Denver’s — as much as six pages long. Complete Colorado looked at a few of the local ballots around the state, incl...
Homeless are ‘dumpster diving’ and rural police chief wants trespassing law to stop it
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Homeless are ‘dumpster diving’ and rural police chief wants trespassing law to stop it

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A new measure could be added to Fort Morgan's criminal code in response to a homeless man who may nearly have been killed as a result of living inside a dumpster on trash pickup day. "Fortunately, the guy was able to get out and jumped out of the truck and ran off the hood," Police Chief Loren Sharp said. "He literally would have been crushed, had he not gotten out of there." Sharp is asking members of City Council to consider a trespassing ordinance which would include the interior of a dumpster, making it illegal to be within the confines of a dumpster. "We don't have any [trespassing law] that talks about dumpsters and receptacles," he said. The concern and frustration of residents toward homeless in Fort Morgan has grown throughout ...
Biden-Harris ultimatum to Israel: Improve dire Gaza conditions or risk losing aid
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Biden-Harris ultimatum to Israel: Improve dire Gaza conditions or risk losing aid

By Jake Smith | Daily Signal The Biden-Harris administration is warning Israel that if it does not improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza, it will risk losing military aid, according to multiple reports. The Palestinians in Gaza have been caught in the crossfire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the latter of which invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and killed approximately 1,200 people. Though the U.S. has been largely supportive of Israel’s efforts to destroy Hamas, it has become seriously concerned with the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and it seems the Biden-Harris administration may be reaching a breaking point with the Israeli government over military aid, according to several reports. Secretary of State Antony B...
Millions in tax dollars went toward programs taught by those fanning flames of anti-Israel protests
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Millions in tax dollars went toward programs taught by those fanning flames of anti-Israel protests

By Jaryn Crouson | Daily Caller Professors connected to anti-Israel protests head programs that received millions of taxpayer dollars, according to a report released Wednesday by government transparency group Open The Books. The Department of Education has spent $283 million on foreign studies grants since 2020, with over $22.1 million going towards programs studying the Middle East, Open The Books found. The study analyzed the top three grant recipients, Indiana University, Columbia University and Georgetown University, and found that each highlighted anti-Israel professors as distinguished staff in their programs. “These universities all have multibillion dollar endowments,” Amber Todoroff, deputy policy editor at Open The Books, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “They...
Purnell: Four years after ‘laptop from hell’ coverup, media election interference is worse than ever
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Purnell: Four years after ‘laptop from hell’ coverup, media election interference is worse than ever

By Elle Purnell | Commentary, The Federalist Four years ago this week, the corporate press helped airlift Joe Biden to the White House by blacking out coverage of his international pay-for-play scandal, after the New York Post discovered evidence of the scandal on an abandoned Biden laptop. The press reaction ranged from refusing entirely to cover the story because it was a “waste of time” to only covering it insofar as outlets could cast doubt on its legitimacy. After the election, polling would show that 1 in 6 Biden voters would have changed their vote had they known about some of the stories suppressed by the media, including the Hunter Biden laptop story. It was the most infamous, though not the only, instance of journalists interferi...