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FILE – The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, March 7, 2024. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court reversed a ruling by a San Francisco-based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside. What’s the impact in Colorado?

June 28, 2024 at 3:36 p.m.

The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking.

FILE – Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio speaks at a rally in Delta Park on Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of presidential power after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

September 5, 2023 at 10:10 p.m.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the...

FILE – President Joe Biden attends his granddaughter Maisy Biden’s commencement ceremony with first lady Jill Biden and children Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Monday, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Hunter Biden will plead guilty in a deal that likely averts time behind bars in a tax and gun case

June 20, 2023 at 4:36 p.m.

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses and avoid a full prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the Justice Department that...

Assault rifles are displayed at Coastal Trading and Pawn, Monday, July 18, 2022, in Auburn, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Emboldened Biden, Dems push ban on so-called assault weapons

November 25, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons.

Experts: U.S. Court fractures decades of Native American law

July 1, 2022 at 2:38 p.m.

A Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is fracturing decades of law built around the principle that tribes have the right to...

A police officer stands guard outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Buffalo is latest mass shooting by gunman wearing body armor

May 18, 2022 at 8:23 a.m.

When a shooter attacked a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend, its security guard tried to stop him. At least one of his shots hit the gunman, but...

Long-serving U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah dies at age 88

April 24, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history and a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, has died at age 88.

“Magic mushrooms” for therapy? Vets help sway conservatives

April 16, 2022 at 3:28 p.m.

Matthew Butler spent 27 years in the Army, but it took a day in jail to convince him his post-traumatic stress disorder was out of control.

Seeking information flyers produced by the FBI are photographed on Dec. 20, 2021. The Justice Department has undertaken the largest investigation in its history with the probe into rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Capitol rioters’ tears, remorse don’t spare them from jail

January 2, 2022 at 12:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida business owner Robert Palmer cheered on the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 before he joined the fray. Screaming obscenities, he hurled a wooden...

Jacob Blake’s uncle, Justin Blake, center, ...

Rittenhouse verdict comes amid a fraught gun landscape

November 16, 2021 at 6:15 p.m.

The upcoming verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial for shooting three men during street unrest in Wisconsin comes against a backdrop of deep political divisions and expanded access to guns...

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