PHOTOS: Families Belong Together rally in Denver, Colorado
In major cities and tiny towns, marchers gathered across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest act of mass resistance against...
View ArticleProtesters flood U.S. cities to fight Trump immigration policy
WASHINGTON — They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?” In major cities and tiny towns,...
View ArticleCelebrating patriots of all stripes
As my family and I get ready to celebrate Independence Day, I cannot help but reflect, and be thankful to our men and women in uniform who fought for, and continue to fight for, our independence and...
View ArticleCrowd protests family separation at Aurora ICE detention facility
About 100 protesters gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Aurora on Wednesday morning to protest the separation of immigrant families that illegally...
View ArticleDenver volunteers among those stranded in Haiti after violent protests
Following two days of violent protests in Haiti, Jim Foglio said his wife and other volunteers from the Denver-based nonprofit Bridge of Life are among those sheltering in place in the country. Tamara...
View ArticleU.S. prepares family reunions for 54 migrants under age 5
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration on Monday lost a bid to persuade a federal court to allow long-term detention of migrant families, a significant legal setback to the president’s immigration...
View ArticleAfter NATO chaos, Trump met by protest, pomp in Britain
BLENHEIM PALACE, England — President Donald Trump traded one hot spot for another Thursday, leaving behind a contentious NATO gathering in Brussels and moving on to Britain, where he found a government...
View ArticleTrump says summit with Putin off to a “very, very good start”
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, JILL COLVIN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV HELSINKI — President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin opened their long-awaited summit Monday with a wink and slouch, respectively, then...
View ArticlePresident Trump says NFL protesters should be suspended
President Donald Trump is once again inserting himself into the culture war over protests by NFL athletes during the national anthem. Trump tweeted on Friday that he “can’t believe” the debate has...
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Infiltrating Hate: How Colorado Springs’ first black detective joined the KKK...
EL PASO — There’s a reason Ron Stallworth remembers everything in detail: the hate in their voices. Their constant use of racial slurs. The way they described, with heated anticipation, plans to...
View ArticleProtests of Boulder County leaders, residents fail to stop major oil and gas...
Despite the objections of numerous Boulder County residents and elected officials, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Tuesday voted to approve two drilling and spacing orders that will...
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Threats cause student activists to reconsider Denver March on NRA this Saturday
The Converse sneakers extended onto the coffee table and the friendship bracelets bedazzling the arms of the teenage girls on Tuesday night didn’t make the tone of the meeting any less serious —...
View Article“We will not be bullied into fear”: Denver’s March on NRA protest will...
Denver’s March on the NRA protest organized by students is still planned for Saturday afternoon despite a group of young activists pulling out because of violent threats they received. The local...
View ArticleSWAT team breaks blockade at Centennial ICE facility; protesters taken into...
Protesters at an ICE facility in Centennial were taken into custody Thursday afternoon as SWAT team members from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office removed them from a blockade. The scene unfolded...
View ArticleDenver’s March on the NRA helps student activists, counterprotesters find...
A group of young Colorado activists advocating for improved gun-control measures and a 19-year-old counterprotester with a Second Amendment advocacy group found common ground during an engaging...
View ArticleStudent protests surge in Bangladesh capital of Dhaka
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of angry young people took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital again Sunday to demand safer streets, facing police firing tear gas and pro-government activists who...
View ArticleA year after deadly Virginia rally, wounds are still raw
Sometimes Alfred Wilson still has to take a moment to collect himself after he pulls open files at the law firm where he works and sees Heather Heyer’s handwriting. “I get choked up and have to gather...
View ArticleDahlberg: Is there a path forward in NFL protests?
The players kneel. The president tweets. And the great divide over protests during the national anthem at NFL games grows even wider. So far the players — at least a handful of them — aren’t backing...
View ArticleAt Unite the Right, black-clad antifa again give peaceful protesters a bad name
The crowd in Washington’s Lafayette Square on Sunday was buzzing and anxious, ready for the clash. “No Nazis! No KKK! No Facist USA!” they chanted, to drum beats and that robotic, bullhorn crackle. But...
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Democratic staffer helped sneak Putin portrait into Colorado Capitol
A prank left Vladimir Putin’s portrait in the place of Donald Trump’s at the Colorado Capitol’s wall of presidential portraits. An aide to state House Speaker Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, helped a liberal...
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