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Hancock: President Trump’s nuclear plan puts power—and America—back on the grid

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Politics doesn’t power cities—electricity does. And Trump just fired up the most significant energy move we’ve seen in decades. It isn’t about windmills or wishful thinking. It’s about fission. Steel. Jobs. It’s about restoring America’s backbone, one kilowatt at a time.

Welcome to America’s new atomic age.

Trump’s nuclear strategy is not a relic of the Cold War but a blueprint for national revival. At its core is a simple truth: electricity has become intelligence. The race to dominate artificial intelligence—the next frontier of economic and military superiority—will not be won with slogans or solar panels. It will be won with gigawatts. And nuclear energy, safe and scalable, is the only resource up to the task.

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Gazette editorial board: Time to repeal the delivery fee feeding Colorado’s bloated government

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Do you use DoorDash for lunch or maybe Uber Eats for dinner? How about Amazon, FedEx or any of the other delivery services — for just about everything else?

Probably.

Have you ever noticed a 29-cent “retail delivery fee” on your tab once your order was fulfilled?

Probably not. After all, it’s only a fraction of the price you paid for whatever was delivered, so even if you did see it, you likely shrugged it off as just another one of the taxes assessed on your order.

Which, in reality, it is. But technically, it’s not a tax; it’s a “fee” that was slapped on deliveries by the Legislature in 2021. And because it was designated as a fee in statute, it didn’t require statewide voter approval as a tax would under our state constitution.

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Graffiti, assaults and street blockades: Denver ‘ICE Out’ protest leads to 17 arrests

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DENVER — 17 people were arrested during protests in Denver Tuesday.

“I want to be present and stand up to what I think is really wrong,” Bonnie Lloyd from Broomfield said.

Crowds gathered to protest against federal immigration enforcement and ICE raids, joining protests across the country — namely Los Angeles — to call for an end to detentions and deportations.

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Garbo: Sanctuary policies led to chaos—and now they’re blaming ICE

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The chaos unfolding in Los Angeles isn’t just disturbing, it’s the natural result of years of political cowardice and ideological extremism. The riots erupting in response to ICE’s lawful enforcement of deportation orders are not acts of civil disobedience. They are acts of defiance against the rule of law itself. And the blame lies squarely at the feet of Democratic leadership in California, who declared Los Angeles a “sanctuary city,” emboldening illegal activity while abandoning their sworn duty to protect American citizens.

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99.8% of job growth under Trump was private sector—Biden’s includes 25% government jobs

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Under President Donald Trump’s first few months in office during his second term, 99.8 percent of all job growth was in the private sector, in comparison to around 75 percent in the last two years of the Biden administration.
In a press release, the White House touted the jobs numbers, saying, “Since President Trump took office, 99.8% of job gains have been in the private sector. During the final two years of the Biden Administration, one in four jobs created were in government,” or 25 percent of job growth. 

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Colorado ranks 5th in nation for work hours—high cost of living a key factor

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DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans spend more time on the clock than people in most states in the U.S., according to a new report.

Qualtrics XM, a data tool for businesses, released a report in March analyzing what percentage of the past year people spent working. The study used data from the American Time Use Survey, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, for all 50 states.

A handful of states had fewer than 10 survey responses and were excluded from the main story, but were included in a separate list.

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OMB Director Russell Vought: If Trump’s bill fails, expect recession and 60% tax increase

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The White House is challenging the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s assessment that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package will raise the federal deficit by trillions of dollars throughout the next decade.

The national debt, currently $36.2 trillion, tracks what the U.S. owes its creditors, while the national deficit measures how much the federal government’s spending exceeds its revenues. So far, the federal government has spent more than $1 trillion more than it has collected this fiscal year, according to the Department of the Treasury.

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RFK Jr.: It’s time for real vaccine accountability—and HHS just took the first step

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Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether toward health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning.

Some would try to explain this away by blaming misinformation or antiscience attitudes. To do so, however, ignores a history of conflicts of interest, persecution of dissidents, a lack of curiosity, and skewed science that has plagued the vaccine regulatory apparatus for decades.
That is why, under my direction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting the restoration of public trust above any pro- or antivaccine agenda. The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies. This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.

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Activists protest deportations at Aurora ICE facility

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AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A group of people marched late Monday to the GEO Group’s contract holding facility in Aurora, contracted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to show their solidarity with ICE protests in Los Angeles.
Several groups called for people to gather for what they called an emergency march and protest. The organizations made their way to the GEO ICE facility, a little less than a mile from the march’s starting point.

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Petition launched to stop Colorado’s nickel-and-dime delivery surcharge

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DENVER — Colorado voters may get the chance to repeal at least one of the many news fees set by the Colorado legislature in the recent past— the retail delivery fee of .29 cents on any tangible property that is delivered by motor vehicle.

The fee, which was passed by majority Democrats in the legislature in 2021 and amended in 2023, is scheduled to be reduced to .28 cents on July 1.

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