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Staffers who worked at Dr. Warren Hern’s Boulder abortion clinic — one of the few nationwide that offered the procedure later in pregnancy — plan to reopen this summer at a different location and under a new ownership structure. Hern, celebrated as an advocate of women’s reproductive freedom and vilified by abortion opponents, closed the Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years when he retired in mid-April. Employees had planned to take over ownership and continue operating the clinic without a gap, but his decision to close it before completing the hand-off forced them to move faster, said Alicia Moreno, executive…

By PAUL WISEMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to declare a national emergency and plaster taxes – tariffs – on imports from almost every country in the world. The ruling was a big setback for Trump, whose erratic trade policies have rocked financial markets, paralyzed businesses with…

The COVID-19 pandemic turned Downtown Denver from the place to be to a place to flee, derailing two decades of momentum overnight. Five years later, downtown’s recovery continues to lag behind most other cities, and the delay is costing Denver and the region. “We can wait 10 or 15 years and the market will correct. It historically always has,” said Kourtny Garrett, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership. “But what will we lose in the meantime?” Tens of millions in tax revenues are no longer collected each year. Large office towers that cost billions to build and maintain…

By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the government said Thursday in a slight upgrade of its initial estimate. First-quarter growth was brought down by a surge in imports as companies in the United States hurried to bring in foreign goods before the president imposed massive import taxes. The January-March drop in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — reversed a 2.4% gain in the fourth…

Interstate 25 was closed in both directions near Mead Thursday morning after a crash involving semitrailers, according to the Colorado State Patrol. At 10 a.m., I-25 remained closed in between northbound exit 243 for Mead and southbound exit 250 for Berthoud, state patrol officials said. Colorado Department of Transportation cameras in the area of the crash at 6:30 a.m. showed an overturned semitrailer and multiple emergency vehicles blocking the highway as a crane worked to clear debris from the crash. The crash happened just after 3:15 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Colorado State Patrol. A semitrailer carrying office…

Teak Ty Brockbank posted online that Colorado’s top election official should be executed and her former counterpart in Arizona should also be killed. But Brockbank, who faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced Thursday for making online threats, is asking for leniency. He says he made those posts when he was drinking heavily and socially isolated, spending his evenings consuming conspiracy theories online. Brockbank pleaded guilty in October to one count of transmitting interstate threats between September 2021 and August 2022 against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and former Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs,…

In the battle for Downtown Denver’s future, victory or defeat could hinge on convincing people it is safe to visit, work and live in the area, and key to that will be restoring the vibrancy of 16th Street (“mall” was recently dropped from its name), which is wrapping up a three-year renovation. Surveys of why people avoid downtown center on a lack of a sense of safety, and city officials and the Downtown Denver Partnership have made restoring it a priority. READ THE FULL PROJECT: At a crossroads: Downtown Denver is waiting for its rebound “No matter how cheap rent…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and JOSH BOAK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and raised broader fears about inflation intensifying and the economy slumping. The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits arguing Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs exceeded his authority and left the country’s trade policy dependent on his whims. Trump has repeatedly said the tariffs…

Not all of the Nuggets had disappeared from Denver yet. A trio of them poked their heads into the Ball Arena lounge area above their practice gym, an area usually reserved for club-level ticket holders but at that moment occupied by team brass, reporters’ recorders and the man of the hour — a man they wanted to support with their presence. Julian Strawther took a front-row seat, intermingling with reporters and David Adelman’s family. Jamal Murray and Jalen Pickett lingered in the back of the room, which was repurposed for Adelman’s formal introduction as the Nuggets’ 23rd head coach in…

A string of protesters against Israel’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza disrupted U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s town hall at the University of Denver on Wednesday, leading to several ejections from the otherwise friendly crowd. Bennet, a Democrat in his third term in the Senate, was hosting the town hall as part of a spate of Front Range events during a Senate recess. The University of Denver event, held with former U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana and the political action committee End Citizens United, was planned to focus on so-called dark money in politics. But protesters promptly turned to condemning…