Denver Post: Politics

GENEVA — The gathering on the second floor of the Saudi consulate featured an unlikely collection: a forensic doctor, intelligence and security officers, agents of the crown prince’s office. As they waited for their target to arrive, one asked how they would carry out the body.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is close to completing one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation’s electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The owners of the Park Hill Golf Club are nearly ready to sell the 1930s-era course in northeast Denver to a local developer.
Clayton Early Learning, the nonprofit that controls the 155-acre property, confirmed on Wednesday that it was “in discussions” with Westside Investment Partners about the land.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It’s taking up to five months for foreign college and university students to obtain “Optional Practical Training” work permits, leading to reported loss of internship opportunities.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration said this week that a “surge” in requests for the OPT — widely used as a pathway to the controversial H-1B visa — has created a backlog and delays to the standard 90-day processing time.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Donald Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

COLORADO SPRINGS — The lawyer for a former Republican candidate for the Colorado House denies allegations that his client flashed a handgun at a U.S. marshal.
Colorado Politics reported Kanda Calef is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to enter a plea to a felony menacing charge.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday ordered another 1,000 American troops to the Middle East, moving to bolster security in a region reeling from hostile attacks on commercial ships that the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A Denver lawmaker is proposing another committee to investigate the U.S. Olympic Committee after it allegedly failed to protect Olympic athletes from serial child molester Larry Nassar.
Democratic U.S. Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Centennial on Monday will take a first look at an ordinance prohibiting camping on public grounds and city-owned rights-of-way, becoming the latest community in the metro area to take on the contentious topic of how to deal with people experiencing homelessness.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Voting rights activists argue that newly discovered 2015 correspondence between a GOP redistricting expert and a current Census Bureau official bolster arguments that discrimination motivated efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 population survey.