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FILE – Law enforcement detain a man outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Assault charge for immigration officer in Colorado could test immunity provisions for federal agents

April 23, 2026 at 11:12 a.m.

Late last year, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said arrests of federal officers performing their duties would be 鈥渋llegal and futile.鈥�

FILE – Wrangler Doug Washburn, of Crested Butte, Colo. overlooks aspen trees with their autumn colors, near Jacks Cabin in the Slate River Valley near Crested Butte, Colo. while gathering the Spann cattle from the U.S. National Forest lands, Oct. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Nathan Bilow, File)

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

June 23, 2025 at 5:47 p.m.

鈥淭his move opens a new era of consistency and sustainability for our nation鈥檚 forests,鈥� Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.

In this screen grab from lapel camera video provided by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, movie set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, right, speaks with a sheriff’s deputy as other colleagues, at center and left, react on the set of the western move “Rust,” shortly after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal, Oct. 21, 2021, in New Mexico. The scheduled trial next week of the movie weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin may hinge on an enduring mystery: How did live ammunition find its way onto the set of a film set where it was expressly prohibited? (Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

How did live ammunition get on Alec Baldwin鈥檚 “Rust” set? The armorer鈥檚 trial will focus on this

February 13, 2024 at 4:08 p.m.

The scheduled trial next week of a movie weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin may hinge on an enduring mystery: How did live ammunition...

Democratic mayors ask Biden to help with influx of asylum-seekers

July 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.

鈥淟ooks like Mayor Bowser is starting to feel a glimpse of what it抖阴ap like to be a border community under the #BidenBorderCrisis,鈥� Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee wrote....

FILE – Oil rigs stand in the Loco Hills field along U.S. Highway 82 in Eddy County, near Artesia, N.M., one of the most active regions of the Permian Basin. Government budgets are booming in New Mexico. The reason behind the spending spree — oil. New Mexico is the No. 2 crude oil producer among U.S. states and the top recipient of U.S. disbursements for fossil fuel production on federal land. But a budget flush with petroleum cash has a side effect: It also puts the spotlight on how difficult it is for New Mexico and other states to turn their rhetoric on tackling climate change into reality. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing, File)

In US, states struggle to replace fossil fuel tax revenue

May 16, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

Preserving income from oil, natural gas or coal production while acting on climate change can be especially tricky in blue states where Democrats often campaign on tackling global warming.

In Kenosha and beyond, guns become more common on U.S. streets

November 21, 2021 at 4:01 p.m.

As Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in two killings that he said were self-defense, armed civilians patrolled the streets near the Wisconsin courthouse with guns in plain view.

How it happened: Inside the movie set where Alec Baldwin鈥檚 gun fired

October 28, 2021 at 8:04 a.m.

Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground...

Baldwin was told gun was “cold” before movie set shooting

October 23, 2021 at 12:10 p.m.

As a film crew and actors in Western garb prepared to rehearse a scene inside a wooden, chapel-like building on a desert movie ranch outside Santa Fe, assistant director Dave...

The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Officers ...

Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman

October 21, 2021 at 10:44 p.m.

A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the...

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, the ...

Trump cowboy seeks 2nd act in politics after U.S. Capitol breach

June 21, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

He rodeoed in a Buffalo Bill-style Wild West show, carried his message on horseback from the Holy Land to Times Square and was invited to the White House to meet...

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