5 climate activists arrested in Denver after traffic-blocking protests
Police arrested five climate change activists who were blocking intersections in downtown Denver as part of a protest Monday morning. The five protesters with Extinction Rebellion Denver were arrested...
View ArticleLetters: Pay for C-470 project at pumps; Missing the point on emissions...
Pay for C-470 project at pumps Re: “C-470 project troubles Wall St.,” Sept. 24 news story Paying to complete C-470, the Centennial Parkway, is a no-brainer. Raise the state’s gas tax, which has not...
View ArticleDenver drag show for children endures amid demonstrations
A monthly Denver drag show for children gained momentum Sunday, drawing more than 100 participants despite demonstrations outside pitting “antifa” activists against “Colorado Proud Boys” and religious...
View ArticleHong Kong protester shot as China marks its 70th anniversary
HONG KONG — In a fearsome escalation of violence, Hong Kong police shot a protester at close range in the chest Tuesday, leaving the teenager bleeding and howling on the ground. Tens of thousands...
View ArticleProtests escalate in Iraq: 9 dead, hundreds wounded
BAGHDAD — At least seven people were killed and dozens were wounded in clashes that spread across several Iraqi provinces on Wednesday as security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas for the...
View ArticleBrewer: It took an uncomfortably long time, but Adam Silver got it right on...
In simple comparison to other major American sports leagues, the NBA has acquired a reputation for progressivism that, while accurate, shouldn’t be taken too far out of its context. A progressive...
View ArticleWho were Wyoming’s Black 14?
They hailed from California, Massachusetts, Ohio and all points in between. But it was their unity on a football Friday in Laramie, Wyo., 50 years ago that changed their lives — and Cowboys football —...
View ArticleChinese snooping tech spreads to nations vulnerable to abuse
Darko Vojinovic, The Associated PressMembers of a rights group paint a face with makeup to confuse the Huawei surveillance video cameras with face-recognition software in Belgrade, Serbia, in...
View ArticleRogin: Trump and McConnell are failing Hong Kong
This week marks five months of millions of Hong Kong citizens taking to the streets to demand the basic rights promised to them by Beijing. These are the largest pro-democracy protests in a generation....
View ArticleHong Kong police storm university held by protesters
HONG KONG — Police breached a Hong Kong university campus held by protesters early Monday after an all-night siege that included firing repeated barrages of tear gas and water cannons. Anti-government...
View ArticleCampus under siege as Hong Kong police battle protesters
HONG KONG — Police tightened their siege of a university campus where hundreds of protesters remained trapped overnight Tuesday in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing...
View ArticleMike Coffman sworn in as Aurora’s new mayor as discord marks first meeting
Mike Coffman, who represented Colorado’s 6th Congressional District in Washington, D.C., for a decade, took the helm of the city in which he has lived most of his life — becoming the mayor of Aurora on...
View ArticleU.S. braces for Iranian response: a “tit for tat” assault?
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials on Monday braced for Iran to respond to the killing of its most powerful general, noting heightened military readiness in the country and preparing for a possible...
View Article38 climate protesters arrested after disruption at Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’...
Protesters urging climate action interrupted — and then were forced out of — the Colorado State Capitol on Thursday ahead of and during the governor’s State of the State address. Minutes before Gov....
View ArticleTucker Carlson dissents as right-wing media weighs Trump’s Iran strike
It was the kind of full-throated critique of President Donald Trump familiar to MSNBC viewers, yet transplanted to the heart of Fox News: Tucker Carlson, the network’s conservative 8 p.m. host,...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Women will march again to heal this broken nation. Join us.
Hailed as the largest day of protest in U.S. history, on January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of womxn across the United States and the world marched through the streets in a rebuke of Donald Trump...
View ArticleHere’s what you need to know about the 2020 Denver Womxn’s March
Provided by Womxn’s March Denver Out with the speeches. In with the art. Now in its fourth year, the Denver Womxn’s March on Saturday for the first time will not include a rally featuring political...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Drop charges against Polis protesters who fought peacefully...
The protest and arrests of 38 people at the Colorado Capitol last week reminded me of another protest that I participated in outside the White House in March 2014. At XL Dissent, thousands marched to...
View ArticleOne of the Beach Boys is boycotting his own music to protest its use at an...
NEW YORK — One of the co-founders of The Beach Boys has joined a boycott of his own music to protest it being used by another band member at an animal hunting convention. Brian Wilson has denounced a...
View ArticleStudents in Denver schools without air conditioning could start academic year...
Next year, Denver students attending schools without air conditioning might start their academic year in September, in the hope that the hottest days of summer will be over. Denver Public Schools...
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