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Jeffco Schools Lawsuit Seeks Clarity After Federal Challenge to Transgender Policies
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, Local

Jeffco Schools Lawsuit Seeks Clarity After Federal Challenge to Transgender Policies

By: Matt Kyle | The Denver Gazette In the wake of several threats by the Trump administration to revoke federal funding, Jeffco Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education seeking to protect that badly needed money. Jeffco has been under investigation by the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights over the district’s policies regarding transgender students, which the federal government alleges violate Title IX. Jeffco officials said its policies are in line with Colorado state law and that the dispute is between the state and federal governments, not the school district. In its complaint, Jeffco said the district’s policies align with the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identit...
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Alaska Seeks Citizenship Verification From More Than 3,000 Registered Voters
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Washington Examiner, Approved, National

Alaska Seeks Citizenship Verification From More Than 3,000 Registered Voters

By Claire Carter | Washington Examiner More than 3,000 Alaska voters have been asked to verify their U.S. citizenship ahead of next month’s primary election, an unusually large number that has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers amid a broader push by the Trump administration for states to strengthen citizenship checks before the 2026 midterm elections. The Alaska Division of Elections said it mailed about 3,048 letters to registered voters asking them to confirm their U.S. citizenship before the Aug. 18 primaries. Election officials said the number is significantly higher than the roughly 200 voters typically flagged during routine voter roll maintenance and may be the result of outdated information in the state Division of Motor Vehicles records...
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Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement
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Just The News, Approved, National

Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement

By Amanda Head | Just the News The new fees, including a $100 charge to apply for asylum and annual penalties for pending cases, also become a self-funding hammer to enforce stricter borders and deter abuse in a system that President Donald Trump has long derided as broken. On Wednesday, the Trump administration gave notice of the start of a sweeping array of new immigration fees, creating a no-lose scenario where the new fees either deter applicants from coming, thus reducing immigration, or they proceed with their application, putting more money into resources to scrutinize claims. The rollout, triggered by notices under last year's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed last year, layers fresh costs onto everything from work permits for protection seekers to juv...
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DOJ Challenges Colorado Law Granting In-State Tuition to Undocumented Students
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DENVER7, Approved, State

DOJ Challenges Colorado Law Granting In-State Tuition to Undocumented Students

By: Robert Garrison | Denver7 DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Colorado, arguing that the state’s laws granting in-state tuition and certain financial aid benefits to undocumented students violate the Constitution. The complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver. President Donald Trump’s DOJ claims in the suit that federal law prohibits states from giving postsecondary education benefits to people “not lawfully present” based on state residency unless the same benefits are available to all U.S. citizens regardless of where they live. “An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible based on residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a ...
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Colorado sues over Trump election rules tied to homeland security grants
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

Colorado sues over Trump election rules tied to homeland security grants

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado joined 24 other states and the District of Columbia on Thursday in suing the Trump administration over new rules that withhold a fifth of the state's counterterrorism grant money unless Colorado shows it meets five federal election requirements. One of the five requirements asks Colorado to plan a change state rules already require. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, where judges ruled against DHS in two similar grant disputes last year. One of those decisions is on appeal.  Colorado sued DHS, FEMA, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Robert J. Fenton, the senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator. "We're suing again, and we'll win again, because the administrat...
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Colorado turns the first Trump DOJ’s own words against its Second Amendment lawsuits
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

Colorado turns the first Trump DOJ’s own words against its Second Amendment lawsuits

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice When the Justice Department sued Colorado in May over its large-capacity magazine ban, the state went looking for ammunition of its own. It found it inside DOJ's filing cabinets. In its federal court filing on June 30, Colorado submitted a motion to dismiss that leverages two memos from Jeff Sessions, the first attorney general in Trump's first term. The state utilizes these documents to contend that the DOJ is attempting to assert an authority that its own former leadership said it should not exercise. The 2017 memo told department heads that "it is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies." The 2018 memo warned that long-term federal court supervision of state an...
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State Department Report Says Cuba Spent Decades Working To Undermine America
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Daily Wire, Approved, National

State Department Report Says Cuba Spent Decades Working To Undermine America

By Drew Berkemeyer | The Daily Wire The report accuses Havana of fueling Marxist movements, infiltrating the U.S. government, and serving as the center for the modern radical Left. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department released a sweeping 99-page report on Monday portraying communist Cuba as the Western Hemisphere’s foremost engine of Marxist subversion, arguing that the island nation has spent decades cultivating revolutionary movements inside the United States and across the globe. The report, released alongside a statement from the State Department, casts the Castro regime not simply as a geopolitical adversary, but as the ideological nucleus of what it describes as the modern radical Left. “For more than six decades, the Cuban regime ...
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Has Trump kept his promises? You decide.
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

Has Trump kept his promises? You decide.

By Russ Minary | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice I am tired of uninformed people and ideologues who complain that the Trump administration is not getting things done. So, here is a list of some of his accomplishments in just his second term. NOTE: I am not a Trump fanboy nor a partisan ideologue; I am a conservative who values the truth. You may dislike or disagree with Mr. Trump or certain members of his cabinet, or some of the 56 items on this list (sourced from Jeff Childers in his Coffee&Covid blog) but it provides hard details for your consideration.  I’ve read it and found it to be fairly accurate. Of course, nitpickers who like to sort the fly crap out of the pepper may find a few insubstantial things to correct. My focus is on facts and results.  Y...
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Vice President JD Vance Welcomes First Newborn To A Sitting VP In More Than 150 Years
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Daily Wire, Approved, National

Vice President JD Vance Welcomes First Newborn To A Sitting VP In More Than 150 Years

By: Brecca Stoll | The Daily Wire “Usha and the baby are happy and healthy." Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance welcomed their fourth child on Sunday. Alec Neel Vance was born Sunday morning at Walter Reed Medical Center. “Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,” Vance said on Sunday. Alec Neel Vance joins older brothers Ewan and Vivek and older sister Mirabel. https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/2078962245216731298?s=20 Alec Neel Vance’s birth marks the first time in more than 150 years that a sitting vice president has welcomed a newborn. The last baby born to a sitting vice president was Vice President Schuyler Colfax’s son, born in 1870 during President Ulysses S. Grant’...
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Former HHS Official Says Hundreds of Thousands of Migrant Children Remain Unaccounted For
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Center for Immigration Studies, Approved, National

Former HHS Official Says Hundreds of Thousands of Migrant Children Remain Unaccounted For

By Romas P.S. Moore | Center for Immigration Studies New information revealing the scale of the Biden administration’s shockingly negligent handling of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) was divulged by former senior Health and Human Services (HHS) appointee John Fabbricatore in a presentation at the Heritage Foundation last week. Roughly 540,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended after crossing illegally during the Biden administration. About 448,000 were released to sponsors. According to one Department of Homeland Security investigation, 233,000 were subsequently unaccounted for, with the government uncertain of their whereabouts. Fabbricatore said that HHS did not know the whereabouts of 291,000 children it had released from custody. Fabbricatore help...
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