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David Brown, Dallas police chief, says he would use lethal robot again

Dallas Police Chief David Brown defended Sunday his decision to take out a gunman who opened fire at a Black Lives Matter march with a tactical robot, saying he would do it again despite mutterings that the unprecedented move may have ushered in the era of "RoboCop."

July 10, 2016

Bill Armstrong, former Colorado Republican senator, dies after battle with cancer

Former Sen. William L. Armstrong died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer and just months after announcing he would retire as president of Colorado Christian University. He was 79.

July 6, 2016

Document shows Democrat-led AGs hiding details of climate-change probe behind secrecy agreement

A Democrat-led coalition of attorneys general has entered into a confidentiality agreement to avoid disclosing public records related to their investigation into climate dissent, according to a document released Wednesday.

July 6, 2016

Science groups blasted for crossing line into activism with climate-change letter to Congress

Critics are attacking as a "climate power play" a letter to Congress from 31 science associations advocating for domestic and natural-security policies predicated on climate change.

July 6, 2016

Study shows expanding Antarctic sea ice caused by ‘natural climate fluctuations’

The expanding Antarctic sea ice, which has long confounded the climate-change movement, can be explained in large part by "natural climate fluctuations," according to a new study.

July 5, 2016

Donald Trump critics bash Hillary Clinton instead at Western Conservative Summit

The maxim that emerged from the weekend's Western Conservative Summit went something like this: If you can't say something nice about Donald Trump, say something mean about Hillary Clinton.

July 3, 2016

Newt Gingrich wins Western straw poll for Donald Trump running mate

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won Sunday's Republican vice presidential straw poll of attendees at the Western Conservative Summit. Mr. Gingrich, who took 194 votes, for 20 percent of the 985 votes cast, was followed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, who spoke Saturday at the three-day conference and took 148 votes, or 15 percent.

July 3, 2016

Gallup poll says only 52% are ‘extremely proud’ to be Americans

Only 52 percent of U.S. adults say they are "extremely proud" to be Americans in the latest Gallup poll, representing a new low in the question's 16-year trend.

July 3, 2016

Ben Shapiro, conservative pundit, slams Republican ‘sellouts’ who call Trump conservative

Ben Shapiro said Saturday that he may vote for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee -- but that doesn't make Donald Trump a conservative.

July 3, 2016

Sen. Tom Cotton takes aim at Clinton tarmac scandal

DENVER -- Sen. Tom Cotton made no mention Saturday of the Republican presidential ticket, but had plenty to say about the Democratic campaign scandal involving President Bill Clinton's private airport meeting.

July 2, 2016

GOP official: White conservatives would ‘crawl across broken glass’ to vote for a black Republican

DENVER, Colo. -- Far from being racist, white Republicans would "crawl across a football field of broken glass" to vote for a black Republican, according to a leading black conservative.

July 2, 2016

Trump moves to thaw chill with Colorado conservatives

DENVER -- Republican Donald Trump has some fences to mend with Colorado conservatives, and he began Friday by speaking their language on hot-button issue like gun rights, religious freedom and Obamacare.

July 1, 2016

Anti-Trump protests turn violent at Colorado conservative summit

Anti-Trump protests outside the Colorado Convention Center turned violent as presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke inside to a crowd at the Western Conservative Summit.

July 1, 2016

Sarah Palin unloads on #NeverTrumpers, calling them Republicans Against Trump, or ‘RAT’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unloaded Friday on conservatives who refuse to support presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, dubbing them "Republicans Against Trump, or RAT for short."

July 1, 2016

Donald Trump faces Republican support test at Western Conservative Summit

If Donald Trump fails to win over conservatives this weekend in Denver, it could be a cold July for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in Cleveland.

June 30, 2016

Virgin Islands AG vows to keep up fight against climate dissent as foes cheer his Exxon retreat

Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker's retreat on his Exxon subpoena drew cheers Thursday from Republicans and free-speech advocates, but Mr. Walker insisted he has yet finished with pursuing climate-change dissenters.

June 30, 2016

Climate change prosecutors suffer defeat as attorney general pulls Exxon subpoena

Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed Wednesday to withdraw his climate-related subpoena of ExxonMobil, a stunning reversal that delivered a blow to the Democratic-led effort to prosecute climate change dissent.

June 29, 2016

Darryl Glenn wins Colorado GOP Senate nod, will face Michael Bennet in November

Conservative favorite Darryl Glenn captured the Colorado Republican Party's nomination Tuesday in a five-way Senate primary battle, setting up a November general-election contest with Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.

June 29, 2016

Democrats force Hillary Clinton’s hand on prosecution of climate skeptics

The debate over prosecuting climate-change "fraud" has landed squarely in the lap of Hillary Clinton, who must now decide whether the Democratic Party platform will include a resolution urging the Justice Department to pursue climate dissent.

June 28, 2016

Michael Mann, climate scientist: Data ‘increasingly unnecessary’ because ‘we can see climate change’

Leading climate doomsayer Michael Mann recently downplayed the importance of climate change science, telling Democrats that data and models "increasingly are unnecessary" because the impact is obvious.

June 27, 2016