Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepers The Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More
Biden set to call upon Obama, George Clooney and Julia Roberts for star-studded campaign event The president is enlisiting some big Hollywood stars to help boost his fundraising in his bid for a second term at the White House ... 05/12/2024 - 11:34 pm | View Link
World News Hamas’s leader in Gaza is considered an architect of the Oct. 7 attacks that prompted Israel to retaliate. As mediators seek a cease-fire, a deal depends on Mr. Sinwar as well as his Israeli ... 05/10/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Link
The Biden-Netanyahu relationship is strained like never before. Can the two leaders move forward? President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are running out of space to maneuver as their views on Gaza diverge and their political futures hang in the balance. 05/10/2024 - 6:15 am | View Link
The Democrats’ depleted farm team: This election is Obama’s real legacy for his party Yet even then, this need not be a disaster for Democrats. There’s still the entire elected Democratic Party for them to draw upon. In theory, all they’d need to do is find some Democratic governor or ... 05/10/2024 - 1:16 am | View Link
Head fakes? Here's why Donald Trump and Joe Biden claim they'll win states the other has in the bank The 2024 campaign is at a stage when the two sides are trying to energize the base and gull the other candidate to waste time and resources. 05/7/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
Donald Trump's ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen continues to testify Tuesday in the former president's criminal hush money trial in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
A Brighton vegetable farm’s fight against a metro district’s eminent domain action to provide storm drainage for new housing drew hundreds of people to an Adams County courthouse Monday in support of the nearly century-old operation.
Palizzi Farm, nestled between a grocery store, a strip mall and residential neighborhoods, is seen here at its location on East Bromley Lane in an image from September, 2023, in Brighton.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two marquee land-use reform bills into law Monday, clearing the way for the building of more accessory-dwelling units and denser development in cities and suburbs across the Front Range.
“The success of this bill will be measured in years,” Rep. Steven Woodrow, a Denver Democrat who sponsored the density measure, said at the signing ceremony outside a light rail station in Denver.
On this date in 1942 Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" premiered. Today it is being narrated by James Earl Jones, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
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During breaks with Donald Trump's criminal trial, the former President typically meets reporters off to the side to whine about how cold it is in the courtroom; then he reads snips of articles by people in his toxic right-wing media bubble. Monday was not a good day for Lumpy, so he read Fox News columns aloud as proof that he was innocent.