Honoring compassionate Coloradans 70 years after plane bombing On Nov. 1, 1955, minutes after leaving Stapleton Airport, United Airlines Flight 629 exploded over Colorado farmland, killing all 44 aboard — including my father. It was the first confirmed plane bombing on U.S. soil, caused by a suitcase bomb planted by a passenger’s family member seeking…
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A man attempts to secure the roof of his home ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on October 27, 2025. | Stringer/AFP via Getty Images We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Learn more about how to support our work. Hurricane Melissa plowed through…
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Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa approached. | Matias Delacroix/Associated Press Hurricane Melissa, already one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday morning as a Category 3 strength with winds at 120 miles per hour. It has now weakened to Category 2. The National Hurricane Center warned that…
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Official .gov site blasts ‘Radical Left Democrats’ I recently logged on to the U.S. Forest Service South Platte Ranger District website to get some current information. At the very top of the website is a special alert which states, “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during…
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Fight back against Xcel’s rate creep Xcel Energy continually requests rate increases, pancaking a request on the natural gas side and then, electric. The rationale always states the impact will be minimal on our monthly bills. Statements such as the increase on the residential side will be $4. Meanwhile, Xcel’s net profits in 2023 were…
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‘March on’ Trump protesters. Prolonged, mass protests can — and have — succeeded Re: “No Kings rally has lost even this sympathetic critic of President Donald Trump,” Oct. 19 commentary Krista Kafer has forgotten why we dumped the tea in the harbor in the first place. Revealing latent Tory sympathies, Kafer suggests the “No Kings”…
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A green sea turtle in Hawaii. | Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images Scientists who study wildlife are often the bearers of bad news — this species or that is headed for extinction for the usual reasons, like deforestation or climate change. Just last week, for example, I wrote about new science showing that two valuable…
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Destruction at the White House Re: “Trump said he wouldn’t touch the East Wing, then he tore it all down,” Oct. 23 news story I don’t get it. The White House doesn’t belong to Donald Trump; it belongs to the people, our nation. Despite this ballroom and tearing down of the East Wing being paid…
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Strings of eggs from breeding pairs of the Houston toad at the Fort Worth Zoo are prepared for release into a pond at Griffith League Ranch. Each bag of eggs is filled with local pond water to acclimatize them to temperature and water quality and then emptied into floating bags that will help protect the…
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Fish in the Florida Keys swim above the coral reef, near Key Largo. | Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images The idea of extinction — the permanent loss of life — is frightening. Yet the stakes of losing plants and animals are often unclear. If an already-rare bird vanishes from the forest, most people probably…
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