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Red flag law expansion heads to Colorado House after Senate approves bill

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DENVER — The Colorado Senate approved an expansion of Colorado’s red flag law on Tuesday, sending the proposal to the House for consideration.

Senate Bill 4 would build off Colorado’s 2019 extreme risk protection orders law, which allows family members, law enforcement, health care professionals and educators to petition the courts to ...Read more

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Melinda French Gates reacts to Epstein emails referring to ex Bill Gates

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Melinda French Gates is reacting to the newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein that mention her ex-husband, Bill Gates.

Last week, documents that showed draft emails Epstein wrote to himself went public, where he claimed the Microsoft co-founder had contracted an STI from “Russian girls.”

In the draft dated back in 2013, Epstein writes...Read more

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Savannah Guthrie's sister last to see mom, blood found on scene

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Just hours before her abduction, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie enjoyed an evening out with her other daughter, according to a report.

“We have a start point,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Us Weekly of their search efforts.

“The family took her home from dinner at about 9:30 to 9:45” ...Read more

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Fear of immigration crackdown could keep some Democrats from precinct caucuses

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MINNEAPOLIS — As he prepares for Tuesday night’s precinct caucuses, Democrat Jason Chavez is issuing an unusual warning to some of his fellow DFLers: stay home.

“I do not recommend folks who are vulnerable to deportation to show up. In fact, I will tell them ‘it is not safe for you to go,’” said Chavez, a Minneapolis City Council ...Read more

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Gabbard scorns critics of her role in FBI election office raid

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WASHINGTON — National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard rebuked Democratic lawmakers and others who expressed alarm over her participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office, saying that President Donald Trump had asked her to be there.

Criticizing what she called “blatantly false and slanderous accusations” by members ...Read more

Children's Minnesota to pause some gender health care for minors

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Children’s Minnesota hospital says it will pause some gender health services for minors following federal actions on health care.

The hospital network said in a statement Tuesday that there has been an increase of federal actions “directed at pediatric health systems” such as Children’s, which provides gender-...Read more

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AG Letitia James will send out monitors to observe ICE actions in New York

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NEW YORK — State Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that she will send trained observers to monitor ICE agents to document enforcement and protect New Yorkers’ rights.

“We have seen in Minnesota how quickly and tragically federal operations can escalate in the absence of transparency and accountability,” James said in a ...Read more

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LA stopped a couple from demolishing Marilyn Monroe's home. Now, they're suing

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LOS ANGELES — A Brentwood couple is suing the city of Los Angeles and Mayor Karen Bass, claiming their constitutional rights were violated when city officials blocked them from demolishing the home where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962.

In a 37-page complaint that accuses the city of collusion and bias, the lawsuit filed by homeowners Brinah ...Read more

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US jet shoots down Iranian drone near carrier in Arabian Sea

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone headed toward a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, spooking oil markets amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.

A U.S. F-35C warplane shot down the drone in self-defense as the unmanned aircraft “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln with “unclear ...Read more

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Maryland House and Senate pass bills banning ICE cooperation deals

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BALTIMORE — In separate party-line votes Tuesday, the Maryland House and Senate passed legislation to end local law enforcement cooperation agreements with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, fast-tracking two identical bills that have ignited heated debate across party lines over immigration policy and public safety.

In the Senate,...Read more

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Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in GOP Epstein probe

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Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in person to a Republican congressional investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, apparently ending their defiant campaign of resistance.

The former president and ex-secretary of state emailed staffers for the GOP-led House Oversight Committee saying they would accept GOP demands and...Read more

Colorado members of Congress call for further investigation into ICE 'death cards' left in arrested immigrants' cars

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DENVER — Colorado lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are calling for further investigation and transparency from federal officials after immigration agents left “death cards” in the cars of arrested immigrants in Eagle County last month.

Voces Unidas, a Glenwood Springs-based immigrant-rights advocacy group, sounded...Read more

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Savannah Guthrie's mom 'taken,' sheriff says. Blood found inside her Arizona home

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Authorities found blood inside the Tucson-area home of Nancy Guthrie, law enforcement sources said, heightening concerns that the missing mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was the victim of foul play.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Saturday night at her residence, and local authorities say she may have been forcibly taken in ...Read more

ICE releases NY researcher arrested after wrong turn at Canadian border

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An upstate New York research scientist arrested after making a wrong turn near the Canadian border has been released from ICE after nearly a month in detention.

Shovgi Huseynov, an Azerbaijani national, has been a researcher at the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences since 2022.

Under his visa, he is ...Read more

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Panel tosses ex-UCLA doctor's sex abuse conviction; lawyers weren't told of juror's 'limited English'

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LOS ANGELES — An appeals court on Monday overturned a conviction for an ex-UCLA gynecologist serving 11 years in prison on charges of sexually abusing patients after determining that the trial judge failed to inform his lawyers that some of the jurors raised questions about the English proficiency of one of the panel members.

A three-justice ...Read more

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Amid political turmoil in Haiti, US warship arrives off coast of Port-au-Prince

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A U.S. military warship has arrived off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where two U.S. Coast Guard cutters are also patrolling nearby.

The presence of the USS Southland comes as tensions continue to rise ahead of Saturday, the day marking the end of the mandate of Haiti’s nine-member Transitional Presidential Council. Although the council...Read more

White House blasts Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey for withholding SNAP recipient info as feds bust another fraud scheme

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BOSTON — The White House is blasting Gov. Maura Healey for continuing to withhold personal information on Massachusetts SNAP recipients from the Trump Administration, as the latest SNAP fraud bust was just announced by federal authorities.

At the same time, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley announced an alleged SNAP fraud involving more than 100 ...Read more

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Homeland Security blasts judge's decision to pause termination of Haitian TPS

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The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday sharply criticized a federal judge’s decision to pause the administration’s effort to end deportation protections for Haitians, signaling that the dispute could soon reach the nation’s highest court.

“Supreme Court, here we come,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in response to a ...Read more

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Kentucky nursing home residents could get 'granny cams' to watch for abuse under bill

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky legislator has proposed a so-called “granny cam” law to allow nursing home residents to position video cameras in their rooms that could catch incidents of elder abuse.

House Bill 491, filed by state Rep. DJ Johnson, R-Owensboro, would require nursing homes to allow residents and their families or other legal ...Read more

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Lawmakers demand insurers explain tough requirements for payouts to wildfire victims

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LOS ANGELES — One of the biggest complaints from victims of the January 2025 wildfires has been demands by insurers that they provide itemized receipts for personal property losses, even if their records were destroyed in their burned homes.

Now, California Sen. Adam Schiff and 15 members of the state's Democratic congressional delegation ...Read more