National Politics

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride

By The Associated Press

April 13, 2025 at 10:35 a.m.

Trump has not only expansively flexed the powers of the presidency by declaring emergencies and...

Kathleen Sgamma, President, Western Energy Alliance, speaks during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing on America's Energy and Mineral potential, Feb. 8, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Land Management withdraws nomination as Jan. 6 criticism surfaces

By Lauren Penington

April 10, 2025 at 3:02 p.m.

Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, withdrew her nomination to lead...

President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Trump says he’s not backing down on tariffs, calls them “medicine” as markets reel

By The Associated Press

April 6, 2025 at 9:27 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on...

Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert arrives for an election watch party at The Grainhouse in Windsor on Nov. 5, 2024. Boebert was running for Colorado's 4th Congressional District against Democratic candidate Trisha Calvarese, after Boebert moved from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert under fire for “racist and derogatory” comment about Black congressman

By Lauren Penington

March 12, 2025 at 11:39 a.m.

A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania is pushing to censure Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, alleging...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through the Capitol, Monday, March 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

House Republicans unveil bill to avoid shutdown and they’re daring Democrats to oppose it

By Kevin Freking

March 8, 2025 at 1:11 p.m.

Congress must act by midnight Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Myra Tuckerman, left, with hand in the air and Paula Thomas hold an Earth flag as they join hundreds of others during a large rally outside of NOAA offices in Boulder on March 3, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Coloradans rally against NOAA, National Weather Service mass firings

By Katie Langford

March 3, 2025 at 5:49 p.m.

“It defies anything that I have in my political experience to understand how stupid this...

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump’s next first speech to Congress is bound to have little resemblance to his last first one

By Calvin Woodward

March 2, 2025 at 10:57 a.m.

The nation will hear a new president sing a far different tune in his prime-time...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch.

By Amanda Seitz

March 2, 2025 at 10:42 a.m.

Republicans, who already have ruled out massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, are turning...

President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies’ ability to sway US leader

By Zeke Miller

March 1, 2025 at 9:13 a.m.

All it took was 90 seconds for weeks of tortured diplomacy to unwind in spectacular...

BOULDER, CO - FEBRUARY 19:People hold signs and wave at passing vehicles while protesting the firing of federal workers in front of the United States Department of Commerce offices that include NOAA, NIST and NTIA in Boulder on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

National Weather Service, NOAA layoffs hit hundreds of federal workers

By Katie Langford

February 28, 2025 at 6:41 a.m.

Hundreds of NOAA and National Weather Service employees were laid off Thursday in the latest...

The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600

By Ellen Knickmeyer

February 23, 2025 at 9:19 p.m.

The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency...

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremonial swearing-in for Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump says he may take control of the U.S. Postal Service. Here’s what to know

By Maryclaire Dale

February 22, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

In recent years, as it’s sometimes struggled to stay afloat, the Postal Service has fought...

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump-Putin summit preparations are underway, Russia says

By The Associated Press

February 22, 2025 at 10:44 a.m.

Speaking to Russian state media, Sergei Ryabkov said a possible Putin-Trump summit could involve broad...