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States scramble to close legal loopholes squatters use to take homes from owners

Lawmakers in states across the country are belatedly moving to restore the property rights of owners who have been forced into lengthy and often costly court battles to reclaim their houses from squatters exploiting pandemic-era tenant protections to take over empty houses.

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Colorado lawmakers reach last-minute bipartisan property tax deal that averts cuts to K-12 funding

Colorado’s property tax code would be reimagined — with long-term rate cuts for homeowners and businesses and a local revenue cap — under a fiercely negotiated, last-minute bipartisan bill introduced in the legislature Monday that aims to provide tax relief while protecting funding for K-12 schools. 

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Porn star Stormy Daniels’ testimony, necessary to establish ‘credibility’, begins in Trump trial

Porn star Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, a remarkable moment that breathed life into proceedings that had been mired in copies of checks, invoices and other mundane details of the state’s case.

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Bill to ban purchase, sale and transfer of so-called assault weapons in Colorado will be shelved

AColorado bill that would have banned the purchase, sale and transfer of a broad swath of semiautomatic firearms, defined in the measure as assault weapons, will be shelved at the request of one of its main sponsors.

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