Author: reporter

A massive military parade to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, requested by President Donald Trump to coincide with his 79th birthday, rolled through Washington D.C. on Saturday, as opponents of the president’s agenda rallied in hundreds of cities nationwide for “No Kings” protests. Rain didn’t stop the parade but forced an early start. Despite concerns about lightning and thunderstorms, the rain held to a slight drizzle during the march of soldiers and machinery. Heavy cloud cover and low visibility in the Washington area did, however, seem to contribute to less of an aircraft presence in the parade. As the parade was underway, police in Los Angeles fired…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and JOHN HANNA, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Americans talk constantly about how their country is split down the middle politically. Melissa Hortman lived that every day as a Minnesota House member. Her unique perspective on politics came from her job as the House’s top Democrat and its unusual challenge. She had to defend liberal priorities in a chamber divided 67-67 between Democrats and Republicans while working to see that the even split didn’t keep the Legislature from funding state government. She and her husband were shot to death early Saturday in their Minneapolis-area home in what authorities are…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said Saturday. The move follows weeks of increased enforcement since Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump’s immigration policies, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks…

Safeway and Albertsons workers in Estes Park, Fountain and Pueblo — and employees at a Denver distribution center — will take to the picket lines Sunday morning, after nine months of negotiations with the grocers didn’t result in a new contract. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced Saturday that, unlike the February strike by King Soopers workers that started at 77 stores, the Safeway/Albertsons walkout will begin on a more limited scale, first impacting locations in just four Colorado cities. The union, in its announcement, said the strike will expand, but the slow rollout is designed to allow…

Dear Eric: I am in my 70s so I should know better. Almost two years ago I had to put my 13-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Shorty to sleep. This broke my heart. Within a couple of months, I decided to get another dog, this time a Gold Dust Yorkie named Buddy. I realize now this was such a big mistake. I should not have done this so quickly. What I truly feel guilty about is I’m not even sure if I care for Buddy. I just can’t seem to get Shorty out of my mind. At the time we did…

On Thursday morning, the Broncos spent about an hour on the practice field going through their final minicamp session of June. By Thursday evening, players and coaches found their way to planes, trains and automobiles on the high tail toward summer break. So now the NFL goes (mostly) dark for a few weeks before everybody reconvenes for training camp, the preseason and eventually the 2025 regular season. Players will report back in late July and, as Broncos coach Sean Payton says, “board the aircraft carrier” for what they hope will be a season that extends well into January. In the…

TPMLE? LOL! Know what, Russell Westbrook? It’s been real. We’ll always have the Clippers series. Beastbrook, the Nuggets’ inevitably viral and maddeningly mercurial veteran backup point guard, is expected to decline his player option ahead of free agency this summer, according to The Post’s Bennett Durando. Now, the Grading The Week (GTW) gang has never claimed to be the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to the calculus of NBA contracts. But we also understand that there are a ton of creative ways the Nuggets, under the current collective bargaining agreement, can get Westbrook back in Denver blue.…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Last weekend, President Donald Trump took the rare step of mobilizing the National Guard, and then the U.S. Marines, sending them into Los Angeles over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom quickly took the president to court for unilaterally calling in the military to clamp down on protests against the administration’s immigration policies. Trump followed that up with a campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where uniformed soldiers cheered as he slammed former President Joe Biden, Newsom and other Democrats — raising concerns the president was using the military as a political prop.…

One person was rescued and taken to a hospital Thursday evening after a house fire broke out in Adams County, destroying a home in the 9800 block of East 138th Place. Ty Ono, spokesperson for the Brighton Fire Rescue District, told The Denver Post that there were no fatalities in the fire, which was first detected shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday. Ono said it’s not clear how severely injured the rescued resident is. Investigators were working in the neighborhood between Brighton and Thornton to determine what caused the fire. Photos posted to social media showed a home fully engulfed in…

A social media brouhaha replete with misinformation broke out this week in Summit County regarding a hiking trail that attracts large crowds during wildflower season. The Acorn Creek Trail, a designated forest service trail 10 miles north of Silverthorne, sits at the perfect elevation for wildflower viewing in June when higher trails remain snow-covered or muddy. It begins at just under 8,400 feet, and a forest service description notes that it is “one of the first trails to melt out in the spring and be clear of snow.” Over time, an unsanctioned “social” trail evolved as an adjunct to create…