Denver Post: Politics

WASHINGTON — Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Colorado’s troubled public pension has been pulled back from the fiscal brink.
That was the key takeaway from Friday’s pension board meeting, the first since state lawmakers approved a sweeping rescue package in May that cut retirement benefits and increased contributions to shore up the fund.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

McALLEN, Texas — Two days after President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separation of families at the border, federal authorities Friday were still working on a plan to reunite an estimated 1,800 children with their parents and keep immigrant households together.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A United Nations report condemning entrenched poverty in the United States is a “misleading and politically motivated” document about “the wealthiest and freest country in the world,” the Trump administration’s top U.N.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The U.S. government wrestled with the ramifications Thursday of President Donald Trump’s move to stop separating families at the border, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” as she boarded a flight Thursday to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Justin Bachman, Bloomberg
American Airlines and United Continental asked the U.S. government not to fly immigrant children separated from their families on their aircraft as President Donald Trump said he was abandoning his “zero tolerance” border-enforcement policy.

WASHINGTON — Denver was in the running to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, but city and business leaders pulled the plug on the bid this week after they learned that the dates targeted for the affair would conflict with prior plans — including an event for a Fortune 15 company.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Colorado’s sunny economic outlook is making it rain tax dollars.
The latest state revenue forecasts presented to lawmakers Wednesday anticipate about $1 billion in new money to spend, save or refund in fiscal year 2019-20, a 6 to 8 percent increase from the budget year that begins July 1.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share