DENVER — Bills to rein in artificial intelligence will be among the topics tackled by the Colorado legislature this week.

On Wednesday, the House Health and Human Services Committee is set to debate a pair of bills focused on AI use in health care.

The first, House Bill 1195, seeks to prevent psychologists, counselors, social workers, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to limit the federal government’s ability to ban drug users from possessing firearms.

During oral arguments, a majority of the justices criticized the government’s prosecution of Ali Danial Hemani, who was found with a gun and admitted using marijuana. He was charged under a law ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday refused to box himself in on how long U.S. military operations will last in Iran, saying the conflict in the Middle East could stretch from a month to potentially “far longer” as he frames the mission as one that is necessary to eliminate a “colossal threat” to American interests.

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FRESNO, Calif. — A former Yosemite National Park ranger was fired after unfurling a transgender pride flag on El Capitan.

Now the ex-ranger suing to get their job back — alleging the U.S. Department of the Interior violated their First Amendment rights.

What protections do federal employees have in California when it comes to freedom of ...Read more

Military bases across the country are stepping up security measures amid the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for the defense of North America, has directed military installations to put in place 11 additional "force protection" measures to enhance safety and security, the command said in a statement.

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NEW YORK — The man accused of ramming his car into the Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn now faces federal charges for the bizarre Jan. 28. episode.

Dan Sohail, 36, already faces state hate crime charges after he repeatedly rammed the side entrance of the Chabad World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights with his Honda, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he was prepared to claw back state funds from 10 counties he said had not made sufficient progress to treat people struggling with their mental health, homelessness, and substance use disorder.

Newsom labeled San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Kern, Riverside, Yolo, Monterey,...Read more

MIAMI — Two days after the U.S. and Israeli militaries killed Iran’s supreme leader, Florida politicians are calling on and preparing for regime change in Cuba.

Speaking in Miami on Monday, U.S. Rep Byron Donalds, a Naples Republican who is campaigning to become Florida’s next governor, said it was time for the “Cuban regime to come to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast aside his anti-war persona by ordering U.S. military strikes on Iran and helping Israel decapitate the Islamic Republic’s government, leaving Republican lawmakers in a lurch to defend him with a number of contradictory statements.

The U.S. commander in chief on Monday, as the conflict spread across ...Read more

NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie and her sister Annie Guthrie gathered at a memorial constructed outside the Tucson home of their mom, Nancy Guthrie, who’s been missing for more than a month.

The siblings were joined by Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni, as they comforted each other while looking at flowers and reading notes left for them and ...Read more

A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

In just over 48 hours since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, the conflict ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers moved closer to banning 3-D printed firearms and more tightly regulating the sale of gun barrels Monday morning.

Legislators in the House voted 40-25 to pass House Bill 1144, the 3-D printing bill. At roughly the same time, the state Senate voted 19-16 to advance Senate Bill 43, which would require firearm barrels ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States would keep up its military offensive against Iran for as long as it takes, outlining for the first time a set of four objectives he hopes to accomplish toward reducing the threat he said is posed by Tehran.

“We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soldrea Roberts grew up around the corner from the late civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson’s nonprofit, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, on the south side of Chicago.

She remembers seeing him around in coffee shops, waiting rooms and at marches in her Chicago neighborhood. Roberts also said she went to the same school as his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the Second Amendment and deny gun rights to "habitual" users of drugs, including marijuana.

But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.

They noted too that ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Central Kentucky circuit judge facing impeachment says the petition against her should be dismissed for several reasons, including that it would violate Kentucky’s separation of powers and the filing is incomplete.

Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman on Feb. 26 filed a 38-page response with Kentucky’s impeachment ...Read more

Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado said she plans to return to Venezuela “in a few weeks” to help steer what she described as an “orderly, sustainable and unstoppable transition to democracy,” despite a sharp warning from interim Chavista President Delcy Rodríguez.

In a video message released from ...Read more

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles burning off the rocket on launch.

While the Vulcan’s main first stage was able to course correct and get its Space Force payload to space on the Feb...Read more

Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.

A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre...Read more

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that ...Read more