The way Jeffery Kytle tells it, he came to Colorado for vacation and left on probation.

Twenty-one years ago, the Iowa resident bolted out the back of a Keystone condo when police busted in the front.

He was in town for a ski vacation, to blow his buddy’s recent $20,000 casino jackpot, the now-66-year-old said this month. But there were ...Read more

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jolynn Mungenast spends her days looking for ways to help people pay their hospital bills.

Working out of a warehouse-like building in a scruffy corner of this former industrial town, Mungenast gently walks patients through health insurance options, financial aid, and payment plans. Most want to pay, said Mungenast, a ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — Faced with other more pressing developments in Ukraine and Gaza, the Biden administration has largely kept the threat of North Korea's nuclear program on the back burner.

But tensions around the Korean peninsula have been ratcheting up for years, opening a new and uncertain chapter in a pitched standoff that, just six ...Read more

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been killed in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of the country.

Rescuers on Monday found the helicopter that had been carrying the president and other officials including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who also died, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. It crashed on Sunday near ...Read more

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who remains missing after the helicopter he was in crashed on May 19, 2024, is a consummate loyalist whose death would be a blow to the country’s conservative leadership.

While search and rescue teams – hampered by rain, fog, forests and mountains – searched for wreckage, Iran’s Supreme Leader ...Read more

China sanctioned three U.S. defense contractors in a mostly symbolic move that signals its unhappiness with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan the same day the island installs a new leader.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and General Dynamics Land Systems Inc. were added to an “unreliable entity” list for ...Read more

India’s financial capital Mumbai — home to billionaires, film stars and millions of slum dwellers — goes to the polls on Monday, with the opposition alliance making a renewed push to break Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hold on power.

Voting will take place in six constituencies in Mumbai as well as 43 others across the country in ...Read more

Outside the 18th District Chicago police station, a group gathered Sunday afternoon waving Palestinian flags and wearing kaffiyehs in the first of many actions ahead of the Democratic National Convention being held in the city in August. In a contentious election year, the rally encapsulated a growing feeling of discontent with the political ...Read more

Harvard handed out notice of academic sanctions to 35 pro-Palestine student protesters over the weekend, students said — a move that galvanized renewed pushback from groups Sunday and that some organizers say breaks the agreement between the university and students to end their encampment.

“Harvard has violated its agreement with student ...Read more

Ahead of his address to and endorsement by the National Rifle Association over the weekend, former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced they would join with the Republican National Committee in forming a new coalition called “Gun Owners for Trump,”

According to the 45th President’s Make America Great Again campaign, the group ...Read more

College campuses are awash in antisemitism and need to do more to address it, according to one Massachusetts lawmaker.

U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss said Sunday that his visits to some Bay State’s college campuses, including his alma mater, Harvard University, have left him with concerns for the Jewish students studying at those schools in the ...Read more

Colorado students whose families make $90,000 a year or less would be eligible to be reimbursed for two years of in-state tuition at public four-year universities, community colleges and technical schools under a bill awaiting Gov. Jared Polis’ signature.

Supporters of the legislation — HB24-1340, passed on the final day of the session — ...Read more

Hours after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noema, who has admitted to fatally shooting her dog, spoke at the California Republican Convention, Lara Trump said that because of the poor economy, American families must choose between feeding their children and feeding their pets.

“People have to make decisions about how they are going to afford their ...Read more

Rescue teams are searching into the night to try to locate Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi after his helicopter crashed on his way back from a visit to the country’s northwest.

There was dense fog in the region, making conditions difficult for search teams, state media said, without giving a direct cause for the incident on Sunday. Iran’s ...Read more

It certainly appeared crucial. Benny Gantz, ramrod straight and facing the cameras with gravity, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shift course on the Gaza war or he’d quit the three-man war cabinet. Israel, he said, needs “a government that will win the people’s trust.”

Coming days after the other war cabinet member, Defense ...Read more

California Democratic Party leaders at their annual executive board convention this weekend took positions on a host of statewide measures that will — or may — appear on the November ballot.

In a state where Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans, state party backing will be a boon for endorsed propositions during the costly campaign slog ...Read more

California has long had a hard ban preventing public school funding from going toward any sectarian instruction or sectarian schools.

But now families in at least two federal lawsuits in California, encouraged by a Supreme Court that has been friendly to many religious liberty cases, are challenging that prohibition, which they argue ...Read more