Arbitrator sends Colin Kaepernick’s grievance against NFL to trial
PHILADELPHIA — An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick‘s grievance with the NFL to trial, denying the league’s request to throw out the quarterback’s claims that owners conspired to keep him out of...
View ArticleColin Kaepernick to star in Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been tapped as one of the faces of Nike’s 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. Kaepernick, who has been under contract with Nike since...
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Hikers, bikers take to newly opened Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge...
A sun-splashed Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge opened its gates for the first time Saturday morning to eager hikers and bicyclists, who brushed off concerns the site — which once surrounded a Cold...
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Nathaniel Rateliff teaming up with student activists for concert to prevent...
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are teaming up with Colorado student activists next weekend for two days of events concluding in a concert to support gun-violence prevention. “The nonpartisan...
View ArticleChickenpox outbreak at ICE detention site in Aurora prompts outcry from...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday confirmed 10 detainees at an Aurora immigration detention facility have been quarantined for chickenpox, drawing accusations by immigration activists of...
View ArticleStudent protest at Adams County charter school escalates into First Amendment...
Parents of students attending a Commerce City charter school are suing the institution over allegations that its chief executive officer suspended more than 100 students last year after a peaceful...
View ArticlePHOTOS: French protests win government concessions
French President Emmanuel Macron has promised a minimum wage increase and tax abatement in response to widespread protests across the country. The yellow vest, or gilets jaunes, protests began four...
View ArticleWomen’s March drew more moderates in its third year. Why? It’s all Trump,...
By Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – Two years in, the Women’s March is still bringing out first-timers, according to organizers and researchers who attended last Saturday’s...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl halftime show used to be one of music’s biggest gigs, but then...
It took a while to be able to say this definitively: On Sunday, Gladys Knight will kick things off at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta by singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Pop-rock band Maroon 5 will...
View ArticleNanda: U.S. intervention is not the answer to Venezeula crisis
The United States and most European and Latin American countries have recognized Juan Guaido as the legitimate acting president of Venezuela, following his announcement on January 23 that under the...
View ArticlePuzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died
FERGUSON, Mo. — Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men with...
View ArticleWhen police kill unarmed black men, what seems obvious on video rarely leads...
The arc of justice for Antwon Rose II has traveled along a familiar modern path: Police kill an unarmed black male, video emerges and protests erupt, along with calls for the conviction of officers...
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Like Mark Kennedy, Bruce Benson was a controversial pick for CU president —...
When the University of Colorado selected a Republican oilman to lead the state’s largest academic institution in 2008, former regents recall protesters turning out in force to object to his hiring....
View ArticleHundreds of thousands in Hong Kong protest law to allow extraditions to China
By Gerry Shih and Timothy McLaughlin, The Washington Post HONG KONG – Corporate lawyers and university students, housewives and religious leaders, migrant workers and artists – a seeming cross-section...
View ArticleHundreds of thousands in Hong Kong protest law to allow extraditions to China
HONG KONG — Corporate lawyers and university students, housewives and religious leaders, migrant workers and artists — a seeming cross-section of society — rose up on Sunday in one of the largest...
View ArticleRampell: France’s carbon tax was a disaster, but there might be a less...
If your country can’t figure this out, what hope is there for mine? I kept wondering this as I met with Notre Affaire à Tous, one of four organizations suing the French government for failing to keep...
View ArticleProtesters gather outside Boulder business with lucrative ICE contracts: “We...
More than 100 people congregated on the sidewalk outside BI Inc. in the north Boulder business park Thursday night to protest the company’s lucrative contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleProtesters in Hong Kong break into legislature, paint logos
HONG KONG — Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature’s main building Monday night, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the...
View ArticleTrump asks Americans to “stay true to our cause” at Fourth of July celebration
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated “the greatest political journey in human history” Thursday in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy, cheering crowd of spectators, many of them...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s Fourth of July event and weekend protests bankrupted...
By Peter Jamison, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s overhauled Fourth of July celebration cost the D.C. government $1.7 million, an amount that – combined with police expenses...
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