The Latest | Arrests top 2,000 as protests against Gaza war roil college campuses The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against Israel's war in Gaza has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools ... 05/2/2024 - 7:35 am | View Link
Hamas will send a delegation to Cairo to continue cease-fire talks Hamas said Thursday it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to continue cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt’s latest proposal. In a statement, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said he had ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Biden says 'order must prevail' during campus protests over Gaza Former President Donald Trump, his party's presumptive nominee, also criticized Biden in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. “Biden has to do something,” he said. “Biden is supposed to be the ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Trump claims US is headed for its own October 7 attack in anti-migrant rally speech The former president told supporters in Wisconsin that President Joe Biden was planning to bring ‘massive numbers’ of Gazan people from the Middle East to towns across America ... 05/1/2024 - 12:26 pm | View Link
Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up It’s a voice that nobody’s heard,” his Republican rival in November’s election, former President Donald Trump, said in a phone interview on Fox News on Tuesday evening. A Biden campaign spokeswoman, ... 05/1/2024 - 9:18 am | View Link
On Monday, Kansas Republicans voted to override Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of four anti-abortion measures. Three bills—which will require doctors to gather and report information from patients about why they are getting an abortion; make it a crime to force someone to obtain an abortion; and allow people to receive tax credits for donations to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers—will now become law.
A longtime lieutenant and criminal co-defendant of far-right Chinese fugitive mogul Guo Wengui has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges ahead of their upcoming trial. This development strengthens the position of federal prosecutors in a case in which they have called Steve Bannon, a vocal Guo ally, a “co-conspirator.”
Yvette Wang, Guo’s former chief of staff and alleged co-conspirator in defrauding thousands of Guo supporters of more than $1 billion, pleaded not guilty after her arrest in March 2023.
By Elliott Wenzler, Post-Independent
A proposal to restrict big-rig truckers from using the left lane in certain high-risk areas of Interstate 70 through Colorado’s mountains moved closer to becoming law Tuesday after the state House gave near-unanimous support of the idea.
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Senate Bill 100, brought by Western Slope lawmakers, would also expand where truckers are required to carry chains during winter months.
After sponsors amended the bill, it now also requires the Colorado Department of Transportation to look into whether the state should temporarily close roadways to truckers during snowstorms.
The Colorado legislature has expanded its floor calendars and plans fast agendas as it works to pass legislation on housing, gun regulation, transportation, taxes and other priorities ahead of the end of the 2024 session next week. Here are updates on major action and key developments.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 3:16 p.m.: The House advanced a bill Thursday afternoon that would launch a study to determine “any potential historical and ongoing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racism on Black Coloradans that may be attributed to practices, systems and policies of the state.”
Senate Bill 53 would be conducted by History Colorado and overseen by a governor-appointed commission.
In his first public remarks on this week’s campus protests, President Joe Biden criticized much of the unrest over the Israel-Hamas war erupting at colleges across the country, saying “none of this is a peaceful protest.”
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“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest,” Biden said Thursday. “It is against the law.