Rep. Leslie Herod, the Denver Democrat sponsoring the bill, said the bill was in response to the dog flu epidemic that hit Colorado in the fall. There was an outbreak at her dog Clinton’s pet facility, which she learned about after she called to ask about the respiratory illness.

“I was then able to go to my vet and get information about how to properly protect my pet so that he didn’t become sick. And that’s what I did,” she said.

The bill passed an initial vote in the House on Tuesday and needs a final vote there before crossing over to the Senate.

—The Denver Post

Law students call on Harvard to divest from ‘Israeli occupation’

BOSTON — After several months of turmoil on Harvard’s campus amid the Israel-Hamas war, the law school student government is calling on Harvard to divest from “Israeli occupation and genocide.”

The Harvard Law School Student Government on Friday voted to pass a resolution that urges the Harvard Management Corp. to “divest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians.”

The resolution also calls on all organizations at Harvard to “divest from institutions, weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians.”

The divestment resolution reportedly passed 12-3, with four abstention votes.

—Boston Herald

Family of Capitol officer who died in Jan. 6 riot slams Trump

The father and brother of Brian Sicknick, the police officer who died during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol, blasted Donald Trump’s appearance at a wake Thursday for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.

Charles and Kenneth Sicknick on Friday both expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but they said Trump’s appearance, especially the press conference outside a Long Island funeral home, was nothing more than a highly inappropriate political stunt.

“He makes sure he gets his face out there. The guy’s a criminal. He’s the reason my son is dead — because of the riot at the Capitol,” Charles Sicknick, Brian’s father, told the Daily News. “He’s a publicity hound. Trump does whatever will get him votes and helps Donald Trump. There’s nothing good about that man.”

Speaking to reporters Thursday outside the Massapequa Funeral Home in Massapequa Park, Trump offered his sympathy to Diller’s wife and son. “The Diller family will never be the same. We have to stop it, we have to stop it. We have to get back to law and order,” he said.

—New York Daily News

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