Challenger Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist, is the projected winner of the Democratic primary in Colorado’s First Congressional District. The upset win for Kiros means the district, which covers Denver, will be represented by someone other than Rep. Diana DeGette for the first time since the mid-1990s. Melat Kiros participated in a League of Women…
State Attorney General Phil Weiser is the projected winner of the pivotal race to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Colorado, defeating Sen. Michael Bennet. Weiser is term-limited out of the attorney general’s office and running for governor for the first time. This was also Bennet’s first run at the state’s highest office, after…
Lawyers for President Trump asked for writer E. Jean Carroll’s consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her by a 2023 jury, and signaled they plan to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider his appeal of Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation case, according to an attorney for Carroll. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, wrote in…
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Tuesday the federal government has lifted a set of restrictions on its powerful Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, resolving a weekslong dispute between the Trump administration and the AI company. Anthropic said in a social media post that it will begin restoring access Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote…
President Trump’s annual financial disclosure report showed he made more than a billion dollars in cryptocurrency last year, including hundreds of millions from selling Trump meme coins. Weijia Jiang reports. Source link
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz’s case alleging CNN defamed him with its coverage of remarks made during President Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial. The dispute presented the high court with the chance to revisit its landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan,…
Washington — The Senate Ethics Committee informed Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego that it dismissed a complaint against him in which GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna accused him of misconduct, Gallego’s office said Monday. In a letter to Gallego on Friday, the bipartisan committee said it “did not find evidence that your actions violated federal law,…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal law bars Arizona from imposing tightened voting rules, including a measure that requires documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote on a state form. The case sets up a high-stakes dispute over the state’s efforts to tighten its voting requirements. It is…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but arrive later, rejecting a GOP challenge to Mississippi law’s for late-arriving ballots. In the closely watched election dispute known as Watson v. Republican National Committee, the high court split 5 to 4 in finding…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Lisa Cook to continue in her post as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors while legal proceedings over President Trump’s attempt to fire her continue. In a 5 to 4 decision, the high court rejected the president’s bid to allow him to oust Cook…
