As Country Veers Left On Social Issues, Are Media Leading Or Following?

President Joe Biden is giving a commencement speech at Morehouse, one of the country's preeminent historically Black colleges, as pro-Palestinian protests continue on campuses across the US. Follow here for live news updates.

DALLAS — Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday. “We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” Trump said.

Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on a number of GOP presidential campaigns, has died at age 58, the news network reported Saturday. Police in northern Virginia told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood early Saturday morning and that no foul play was suspected.

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.

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 — tout it as an important step to improve access to postsecondary education in Colorado.

They’re going to lose “our democracy.”