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By ELAINE KURTENBACH and WILL WEISSERT, AP Business Writers BANGKOK (AP) — Washington and Beijing have signed a trade agreement that will make it easier for American firms to obtain magnets and rare earth minerals from China that are critical to manufacturing and microchip production, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday. The agreement comes after China retaliated against steep import tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese goods and moved to slow export of rare earth minerals and magnets much-needed by U.S. industrial interests. Bessent said on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping “had a…

Metro Denver’s food scene has never been as vibrant as it is today, something The Denver Post’s food writers and the rest of the staff of The Know understand. That’s why we’re out on the town as much as possible. Each month, we’ll provide you with recommendations about a few of the dishes we tried over the previous weeks. Want to hear about them early? Subscribe to the Stuffed newsletter, where we introduce one of these dishes every Wednesday. Somebody People “This is vegan?” I heard someone ask recently at Somebody People, before dramatically pretending to faint while chewing. “Consider me a…

COLORADO SPRINGS — As storm clouds began to poke their heads over Cheyenne Mountain, Mark Hensby slumped into his seat at a podium up the range from the Broadmoor Golf Club, the unlikely early face of Thursday’s U.S. Senior Open. His own face, though, twisted with torment. Two hours before, as blue skies smiled on early strokes in the Springs, Hensby’s putter was golden. His demeanor, as he strolled up and down early fairways, was sunny. This was a course whose greens have tested some of the best men in this profession, but this was a man who’d faced much…

Walking over the chalk pointing to the unmarked tents of Denver NWSL’s small, but budding supporters’ group felt like a treasure hunt outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park ahead of the U.S. Women’s National Team’s match against the Republic of Ireland on Thursday night. The supporters’ group, yet to be named just like the club itself, was marked mostly by white T-shirts with the Denver NWSL logo, and brought out hundreds curious for what’s next. The most popular tailgate host — perhaps slightly ahead of the guy giving out water in the 85-plus degree heat — was the face-painter stenciling…

A deadly new enemy to Denver’s 330,000 ash trees just moved to town. The emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that’s killed millions of trees across the United States, was discovered in several trees in the Congress Park neighborhood on June 17, city Parks and Recreation officials said Thursday. City officials confirmed the wood-boring beetle’s presence with Colorado State University entomology experts and Denver’s forestry office. “We’re grateful that our Office of the City Forester has been preparing for this inevitable discovery, yet this is not a low-stakes battle,” Parks and Recreation Executive Director Jolon Clark said in a statement.…

COLORADO SPRINGS — Matt Schalk got the first sentence out before the emotions he knew were coming arrived. Schalk, the PGA director of golf at Colorado National in Erie, took the first swing of the 2025 Senior U.S. Open at The Broadmoor on Thursday morning. As he spent the day grinding through the opening round of the third major event on the senior tour, there was a familiar face carrying his clubs — his daughter, Hailey Schalk. “It’s pretty special to be here, obviously with your daughter,” Schalk said before he needed a minute to gather himself. “Sorry, I can…

A new, White House-approved portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol. The new portrait bears a close resemblance to Trump’s official photograph for his second term in office, albeit with him wearing a blue tie in the painting versus a red one in the photo. The painting casts Trump against a black background instead of the textured brown and black in the portraits of his predecessors. A new portrait of President Donald Trump that was provided by the White House is set to be unveiled soon in the Colorado State Capitol, after it’s framed.…

A report from Instant Roofer reveals that Denver homeowners spend the most nationally on renovations. They spend 4.5 times the national average on room conversions ($900 vs. $200), while renovation projects cost an average of $14,200 or 11.5% of household income annually. “Denver has seen a significant rise in remote work opportunities over the past few years, naturally driving residents to invest more in their homes,” said Jacob Petrosky, Instant Roofer founder. “When you’re working from home all day, you want it to be a nice space, and of course, you need that proper home-office setup.” Choose improvements that make…

A relatively wet spring in Colorado could mean a more severe snake-bite season, but at least half of the bites are preventable, one expert said. Most snake bites in Colorado happen from May to October, after which cold temperatures push rattlesnakes to curl up and reduce their activity, said Dr. Kennon Heard, a professor of medical toxicology and pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. A 2018 study involving researchers at CU and Stanford University found that relatively wet weather increased the number of snake bites, at least in California. They attributed it to an increase in populations…

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the final days of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government. But the justices also have six cases to resolve that were argued between January and mid-May. One of the argued cases was an emergency appeal, the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally. The remaining opinions…