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California to let college athletes sign endorsement deals
Defying the NCAA, California opened the way Monday for college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsement deals with sneaker companies, soft drink makers, car dealerships and other...

Colorado among states suing Trump administration over new coal rules
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Colorado is among a coalition of 22 Democratic-led states that has sued the Trump administration over its decision to ease restrictions on coal-fired power plants.

Sen. Cory Gardner, GOP senators try to figure out how closely to run with Trump
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner helped mastermind the GOP's midterm strategy of pushing Senate candidates closer to President Donald Trump. But heading into his own 2020 re-election bid in Colorado, he's...

Mitch McConnellâs maneuvers take back seat to President Trump in shutdown
The Republican leader has been conspicuously deferential to Trump since the shutdown began. Heâs waiting on the president and Democrats to make a deal to end it.

Norfolk Southern moving derailed freight cars off tracks
Norfolk Southern is moving derailed freight cars off the tracks after two trains collided in Georgetown, Kentucky, and sent four people to the hospital, the company said Monday in a...

Kentucky lawmaker who spun history of heroics ends life in suicide
Republican Dan Johnson's carefully crafted history crumbled this week following an extensively reported story from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. The story tore down his claims and portrayed him...

Sen. Rand Paul attack was over “trivial” dispute, attorney says
An assault of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul by a longtime next-door neighbor was not motivated by political differences but by a dispute "most people would find trivial," an attorney for...

EPA chief says Trump administration will roll back Obama-era Clean Power Plan
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says the Trump administration will abandon the Obama-era clean power plan aimed at reducing global warming.

Rural hospitals face uncertainty with health care proposals
âMost people live off Medicaid. If they donât have that, they donât have nothing,â he said. âYou will be sending them to their deathbeds.â