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Property tax deal clears key debate in Colorado House as progressives criticize backroom negotiations
DENVER — The property tax reform bill at the center of state officials’ deal with conservative activists to pull back a pair of ballot initiatives advanced on schedule Tuesday, clearing a key hearing before the full Colorado House of Representatives.
The measure now needs a final House vote on Wednesday. Should it clear that, it will then ...Read more
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Colorado's wildfire risk is so high this fire department struggled to find insurance to build a new firehouse
DENVER — The Durango Fire Protection District was repeatedly denied insurance coverage for the construction of its new downtown firehouse earlier this year because of — wait for it — the wildfire risk.
“We literally are a fire station building a fire station next to a next fire station between a river and a highway,” Durango Fire ...Read more
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Andrew Lester's mental health questioned as trial nears in teen's shooting in Kansas City Northland
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The attorney for Andrew Lester is asking for his client to be evaluated, saying there are signs of declining mental health in the man accused of the high-profile shooting of Ralph Yarl, according to court documents.
In the motion filed Tuesday, his attorney, Steven Salmon, described a man who has become frail due to ...Read more
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San Diego County takes stand against social media companies
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to join a growing trend nationwide to restrict youth access to social media platforms.
After failing in a split vote last month, with Chair Nora Vargas absent, the board once again took on the matter Tuesday. This time, the proposal to explore suing social media companies ...Read more
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Hurricane center tracks 2 systems in Atlantic with chance to develop
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center is now tracking two Atlantic systems with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook Wednesday, the bigger threat to Florida remained what is expected to become an area of low pressure that could form in the central tropical...Read more
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Labor Day weekend: Summer finale means busy roads and airports
ATLANTA — The last hurrah of the summer will mean yet another packed weekend at airports and on the nation's roads.
AAA forecasts domestic travel will be up 9% nationally over Labor Day weekend compared with last year. The nation's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, is preparing to handle more than 2.3 million ...Read more
3 friends drowned together in a Sierra Nevada whirlpool. How dangerous is the trail?
LOS ANGELES — The Seven Teacups trail in the Sierra Nevada where three friends tragically lost their lives trying to save one another last week is known for its stunning views, including a series of descending pools and waterfalls that give the trail its name.
But the water that contributed to its beauty also could make the trail risky — ...Read more
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TikTok must face lawsuit over Pennsylvania girl's 'blackout challenge' death
TikTok must now face a lawsuit brought by the mourning mother of a 10-year-old girl from Pennsylvania who died while she attempted a viral challenge that dares participants to choke themselves until they pass out.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court in Philadelphia on Tuesday revived the suit filed by Tawainna Anderson after her daughter, Nylah Anderson...Read more
'It feels like a fortress.' California students return to college amid tighter security over protests
LOS ANGELES — When Lawrence Sung returned to USC this week, he encountered a campus starkly different from that one he's come to know over the last three years.
In place of open gates for public access, students lined up, waiting for staff to scan their IDs. Once inside, new signs warn of a possible "secondary verification screening" and "...Read more
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Israel carries out deadly West Bank raids as tensions rise
Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank to combat what the army said was terrorist activity, the latest series of hostilities in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war in Gaza.
Nine Palestinians have been killed and 11 have been injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which said Israeli ...Read more
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They mocked Matthew Perry as 'Chandler' and 'moron.' Actor was exploited before his death, feds say
In the month before Matthew Perry’s death, a doctor the actor contacted to acquire ketamine called him a “moron” in a text message, according to federal prosecutors.
A dealer who authorities say supplied the drug to Perry referred to him as “Chandler” — the sarcastic yet sweet-natured character he played on the hit television show �...Read more
Oakland County, Oxford board call for independent review of Michigan school attack
DETROIT — The Oxford Community Schools Board of Education passed a resolution Tuesday night calling on the Legislature to mandate and fund a comprehensive, independent review of the emergency response to the 2021 Oxford High School attack.
Earlier Tuesday, an Oakland County spokesman said the county would issue a request for a proposal by mid...Read more
US-China meeting paves way for leader talks in 'near future'
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed setting up new talks between their presidents in meetings aimed at managing the two nations’ difficult relationship.
“The two sides discussed a new round of interaction between the two heads of state in the near future,” China’s Foreign Ministry ...Read more
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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows
Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered as a scientific or political issue. However, social scientists like me have found that feelings and values are what drive people toward broad, collective change – not charts, graphs or images.
Surveys confirm that the majority of Americans now ...Read more
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Creative arts therapy programs can help health care workers dance, write and draw their way through burnout and on-the-job stress
Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant...Read more
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Avian flu has infected dairy cows in more than a dozen states – a microbiologist explains how the virus is spreading
The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in Colorado.
The Conversation U.S. asked immunologist and microbiologist Jenna Guthmiller from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to explain the ...Read more
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Black voters, Latino voters and other voters of color show solidarity at the ballot box
Shortly before Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, several national polls and primary voting results indicated that Donald Trump had peeled away one of the party’s most reliable voting blocs – people of color.
Such was the case with polls suggesting that Trump was expected to ...Read more
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Policy, shmolicy: Election Day weather and football victories could decide the election
The current presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is shaping up to be an extremely tight contest. Any number of last-minute factors might earn votes for one candidate or the other. Late-breaking economic news, international conflicts, personal gaffes or revelations – all may be enough to tilt the election.
There ...Read more
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Maryland parents could have the option to stop children from repeating third grade
BALTIMORE — Third-graders struggling to read won’t necessarily be held back, according to an updated draft literacy policy from the Maryland State Board of Education.
The policy initially mandated that students unable to read at grade level would repeat the third grade, but the revised version allows families to seek a waiver that would ...Read more
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A teen's murder, mold in the walls: Unfulfilled promises haunt public housing
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Blocks from where tourists stroll along the cobblestoned riverfront in this racially divided city, Detraya Gilliard made her way down the dark, ruptured sidewalks of Yamacraw Village, looking for her missing 15-year-old daughter.
Like most other people living in one of the nation’s oldest public housing projects, Gilliard ...Read more
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