National Politics

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Pressure from Trump for trade deals before Wednesday deadline, but hints of more time for talks

By The Associated Press

July 6, 2025 at 9:19 p.m.

The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on trading partners to quickly make new deals...

Hanna Rose Shell places flowers on a railing outside the Boulder County Courthouse before the start of an event on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Matthew Jonas/Daily Camera)

After Boulder attack, Colorado to offer $250,000 security grants for places of worship

By Nick Coltrain

July 1, 2025 at 10:54 a.m.

Colorado will offer $250,000 in security grants for places at increased risk of attack, such...

Sunrise over Lake Dillon in Summit County, June 24, 2025. Senator Mike Lee, (R-Utah), said late Saturday that he had dropped his contentious plan to sell millions of acres of public lands from the sweeping domestic policy package that the Senate will soon begin debating. (Daniel Brenner, The New York Times)

A public lands sell-off is struck from the GOP policy bill

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

June 30, 2025 at 11:28 a.m.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said late Saturday that he had dropped his contentious plan to...

Alycia Campbell, second from left, shares her story with other participants during a New American Leaders political training session at 2nd Home Community in Aurora on Friday, March 7, 2025. Since 2010, New American Leaders remains the only national, nonpartisan organization focused on bringing first- and second-generation immigrants into politics. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

‘New Americans’ are winning elections in Colorado. Other immigrants want to follow suit.

By Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton

June 3, 2025 at 11:58 a.m.

What's happening in Colorado in part of a growing trend to incorporate more diverse perspectives...

Gov. Jared Polis, center, stands for a photo during a press conference at the Boulder Theatre to announce that the Sundance Film Festival will be moving to Boulder, on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

How Boulder politics, culture shaped Sundance Film Fest win over Utah and Ohio

By John Wenzel

May 29, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

"They want people to come and feel safe, and to be able to express themselves...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he’ll delay a threatened 50% tariff on the European Union until July

By Seung Min Kim

May 25, 2025 at 6:14 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff...

FILE – Hikers look up at a fast moving storm as it makes its way through Zion National Park outside of Springdale, Utah, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)

A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight

By Matthew Brown

May 11, 2025 at 12:14 p.m.

Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of federal...

A women walks into the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colorado on Jan. 21, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Federal judge grants injunction, indefinitely bars Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act in Colorado

By Katie Langford

May 6, 2025 at 7:46 p.m.

U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney also granted a request from the American Civil Liberties Union...

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters looks on during sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)

Trump calls for Colorado clerk Tina Peters to be released from prison

By Katie Langford

May 5, 2025 at 8:22 p.m.

Peters is serving a nine-year sentence for a voting data scheme related to the 2020...

People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, March 15, 2021, as the historic island prison was reopened to visitors after being closed since Dec. 2020, because of the coronavirus threat. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

By The Associated Press

May 4, 2025 at 7:18 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the...

President Donald Trump arrives to give a commencement address at the University of Alabama, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights

By Aamer Madhani

May 4, 2025 at 2:22 p.m.

Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the...

President Donald Trump points as he arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Saturday, April 26, 2025, upon returning from a trip to attend the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies and igniting trade wars

By The Associated Press

April 27, 2025 at 2:45 p.m.

In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump exerted his power in a sweep and...

The motorcade of U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seen en route to Vatican, in Rome, Italy, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/Pool Photo via AP)

Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration, gets chocolate eggs for kids

By The Associated Press

April 20, 2025 at 10:51 a.m.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter...