Tag: Colorado News
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Supreme Court rules rejects Colorado’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for children
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a Colorado counselor a victory over the state’s “conversion therapy” ban on minors, concluding that the law represents an “egregious form of content discrimination.” The justices ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s conversion therapy law regulates speech based on viewpoints by permitting the counselor to “express acceptance and support for clients exploring their identity…
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Pueblo man held in Afghanistan for more than a year released, Taliban says
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the ministry said the academic researcher had…
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Thousands march through Denver in second major anti-ICE protest of weekend
Several thousand people took to the streets of Denver Saturday night, the latest in a string of national and Denver-area protests throughout the weekend calling for a stop to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations throughout the country. The protest, one of hundreds throughout the U.S., took place a day after marchers also took over…
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Colorado’s largest wilderness area growing, popular trails protected
Colorado’s biggest wilderness area is getting bigger, and popular trails are gaining protections. That was the message of a recent announcement by The Wilderness Trust, which has long worked to acquire privately owned pockets within the nation’s most protected landscapes. A focus lately has been the Weminuche Wilderness, spanning 499,771 acres of western Colorado —…
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Fentanyl, cocaine recovered during drug bust in La Junta
Authorities seized hundreds of grams in cocaine and fentanyl during a drug bust in La Junta, according to an announcement Tuesday from officials. In collaboration with La Junta police, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation confiscated about 110 grams of cocaine and 273 grams of fentanyl (roughly 2,730 pills), the CBI said in a news release.…