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Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans

Tuesday's elections were seen as an early measure of voter sentiment after Trump's first few months back in power.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel makes his concession speech to a crowd at his election night party Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Pewaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Afternoon traffic along Peña Boulevard headed toward Denver International Airport is congested on Aug. 8, 2023

Widening of Peña Boulevard gets green light for study phase as City Council support grows

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 25, 2025. Johnson on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, tried and failed to kill a bipartisan effort to change House rules so that new lawmakers would temporarily be allowed to vote remotely after the birth of a child, suffering an embarrassing defeat that signaled that the proposal could soon be adopted. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Johnson fails to kill bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting for new parents

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Trump has dubbed April 2 ‘Liberation Day’ for his tariffs. Here’s what to expect
Colorado, 22 other states sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding
Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?

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Cars on C-470 head west between Santa Fe Drive and Lucent Boulevard on Aug. 18, 2022, in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

How has Colorado’s new hands-free phone law changed distracted driving citations?

In the three months since Colorado’s new hands-free phone law took effect, state patrol troopers have already issued more than double the number of distracted-driving citations written in all of 2024.

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State Sen. Julie Gonzales, front, speaks during a news conference at the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. She is sponsoring a bill aimed at protecting voting rights in the state. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

As Trump takes aim at election rules, Colorado Democrats view state voting-rights bill as a bulwark

Colorado lawmakers, hoping to enshrine federal voter protections in state law, advanced a bill this week to bar voter discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Colorado Legislature

Bison gather in a field in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver on Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Protecting wandering bison, limiting HOAs’ foreclosure powers, a budget proposed and more from the Colorado legislature this week

Every so often, wild bison from one of Utah’s herds cross the invisible state border and wander into northwest Colorado -- unknowingly putting their lives in danger.

National Politics

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for Alina Habba as interim US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump’s promised “Liberation Day” of tariffs is coming. Here’s what it could mean for you.

President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — a moment when he plans...

Local Politics

LEFT — Aurora mayor Mike Coffman on Jan. 9, 2020. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) RIGHT — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on July 18, 2023. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Icy relationship: Tension is building between the Denver and Aurora mayors — and not for the first time

The distrust between Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has devolved to...

Joe Biden

FILE – Families and victims advocates participate in a prayer walk around the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to mark Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

FBI sending extra agents to 10 states including Colorado to work unsolved violent crimes in Native American communities

The FBI will be working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit,...

Donald Trump

People clean graffiti off of the windows on Friday, Feb. 7, 2024, at the Tesla dealership in Loveland. Officials said the vandalism included someone trying to set the dealership on fire. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Colorado man suspected in Tesla arson indicted on federal charges

A second Coloradan suspected of trying to set a Loveland Tesla store on fire was...

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