James Earl Jones Was So Much More Than Darth Vader

Colorado voters in the Nov. 5 election face a crush of judicial retention questions on the ballot that can be intimidating. How should voters approach them? Judges in Colorado are appointed to the bench in state and county courts, rather than elected. But they later appear on the ballot when they come up for retention — allowing voters to decide whether they should continue serving. The system has its critics, in part because it’s rare for a judge to get booted by voters.

Proposition 131 would fundamentally change how many of Colorado’s elections are run, presenting one of the most sweeping changes to the democratic process in the Centennial State’s 148-year history. As it stands, Colorado’s elections are generally handled in much the same way as in other states: In partisan contests, Republicans compete against Republicans and Democrats against Democrats in June primary races.

Broncos All-Pro cornerback Pat Surtain II suffered a concussion in the first quarter Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers and will not return to the game. Surtain had tight coverage on Chargers receiver Ladd McConkey and broke up a pass, but hit his head on the turf as they rolled over. Surtain stayed on the ground for a couple of minutes while being attended to by medical staff.

Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City. “It was a pretty extensive display yet again,” said Shawn Dahl, a space weather forecaster at the U.

WASHINGTON — During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.

A third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump was thwarted on Saturday after a Las Vegas man was arrested with weapons and fake passes about a half mile from Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday. But the man who had the weapons told a reporter he is a Trump supporter who bought them for his own safety and notified police at a checkpoint that they were in the trunk of his car. Deputies assigned to Trump’s rally said the driver, Vem Miller, rolled up in a black SUV to a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive around 5 p.m.