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President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed Colorado a state 150 years ago this week
The telegraphic dispatch, dated Aug. 1 and sent from Washington, D.C., appeared in newspapers across Colorado and the nation the following day. “The...
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Fifty for 150: Racist mob attacks Denver Chinese community in 1880 riot
On Halloween night in 1880, a white mob targeted Chinese residents in Denver after a drunken saloon fight, ransacked their homes and businesses, and killed...
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String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing to do everything in his “power to put the...
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3 Republicans break with Trump in US Senate vote to block war in Iran
WASHINGTON — For the second time in as many weeks, a War Powers Resolution aimed at curbing President Donald Trump’s war with Iran failed to pass the U.S....
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