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One sailor is dead and a second sailor is in pre-trial confinement after an early morning Saturday shooting aboard carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), USNI News has learned. Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Jesse Braswell of Colorado was killed in the shooting, which happened around 5:15 a.m. on Saturday, a Navy spokesperson told USNI News.

The empty desks appearing across Colorado today are the delayed consequence of decisions made years ago by politicians, educators, and cultural elites. Colorado colleges are bracing for what education experts call an “enrollment cliff.” Fewer high school graduates mean fewer college applicants, shrinking tuition revenue, budget cuts, mergers, and even campus closures. The same phenomenon is unfolding nationwide. After years of warnings, the demographic reckoning has arrived. According to recent Colorado education data, public school enrollment fell by more than 10,000 students this year, the state’s largest decline since the pandemic. State officials point to a simple explanation: there are...

Screenshot via War RoomYesterday, a great evil came to an end as former Colorado election official Tina Peters was finally freed from prison. Like so many Americans who have been targeted in the last decade by biased prosecutors, Peters never belonged there in the first place. Peters was railroaded at the insistence of election officials in Colorado who were trying to punish her for her investigation of the compromised 2020 presidential election. Singled out as she was for exemplary punishment, Peters was subjected to abusive conditions and periodic assaults by fellow prisoners. All of this was for following her conscience...

Officials in Northern Colorado are celebrating a new project to improve energy reliability and availability in their communities ... Platte River Power Authority CEO Jason Frisbie says the project is a major step toward reducing its carbon footprint ... The facility will strengthen the county's electric system by storing energy for later distribution during periods of high demand.

GRANBY, Colo. (News 4) A person with a gun has reportedly driven a bulldozer with armor welded to it into several buildings in the town of Granby and heavily damaged the Town Hall, News 4 reports. The suspect fired shots, and it is unknown what his motive was. Witnesses said police were firing shots at the bulldozer, but were not able to penetrate the armor. Several buildings were heavily damaged in the main section of town, according to witnesses. Witness Teri Hertel told News 4 by phone that the driver plowed through several trees and signs on the street. The...

On June 4, 2004, Marvin Heemeyer used a homemade armored bulldozer to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, during a 90-minute rampage that caused $7 million in damage. Heemeyer’s modified Komatsu bulldozer—later dubbed the “Killdozer”—came loaded with steel armor plating, cameras, and gun ports, making it almost impossible to stop. It all started with what seemed like a regular business dispute over zoning and sewer connections. Heemeyer, who ran a muffler shop, felt local government decisions had boxed him in. Over a year and a half, he quietly turned his bulldozer into an armored juggernaut and mapped out his attack...

TheLastRefuge repostedBannon’s WarRoom@Bannons_WarRoom·4hAt long last, TINA PETERS IS FREE!!!"It's been quite the ordeal, but I really want to thank God for His faithfulness and for getting me through it... It's a miracle."@realtinapetersJune 1, 2026

Denver International Airport is preparing to open portions of a mysterious underground tunnel system that has long been plagued by conspiracy theories. Officials announced plans this week to convert sections of the airport’s underground baggage tunnels into pedestrian walkways connecting concourses A, B and C. The tunnels, which have long fueled speculation involving secret bunkers, "lizard people" and underground military facilities, will become an alternative route for passengers traveling between terminals. Currently, travelers primarily move between concourses using the airport’s underground train system. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston acknowledged the airport’s unusual reputation while discussing the project.

The Maverik gas station in Montrose, Colorado, can’t sell any diesel after someone dumped an RV’s waste tank into the station’s underground diesel supply. The incident happened sometime on Monday, and a woman who answered the phone at the Montrose Maverik station on Tuesday confirmed that someone had dumped an RV waste tank into its underground diesel storage tank. She said the pumps “are shut down right now,” that the store was busy, and hung up. Cowboy State Daily hasn’t been able to confirm the status of the situation at the Montrose Maverik since that call. Subsequent calls weren’t answered....

No Investigations, Regulation, or Discipline has Followed Fort Collins, CO — Earlier this week, Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation made national news after finally obtaining the unredacted autopsy report for Lexi Arguello, a young girl who died from a catastrophic complication after a late-term abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. However, Lexi is not the only woman that has fallen victim to Colorado abortion clinics, which are no longer required to be licensed or inspected. Radical abortion policies within the state have resulted in countless injuries, and the intentional lack of oversight coupled with overly redacted...

The Colorado Democratic Party has censured fellow party member Gov. Jared Polis for reducing the prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Peters, an ally of Donald Trump, was convicted in 2024 of tampering with county voting machines. She was allegedly trying to prove election rigging six months after the 2020 election, according to Colorado Public Radio. She is scheduled to be paroled on June 1.

A 13-year-old seventh-grader at Drake Middle School in Colorado’s Jefferson County Public Schools was barred from reading her pro-life slam poem aloud in class along with other students. She was prevented even though staff acknowledged it met all assignment requirements, according to the student’s family. The assignment asked students to write and present slam poetry about a world conflict they felt passionate about. The girl chose the topic of abortion and prepared a poem that referenced biblical verses, Dr. Seuss literature and statistics on abortions since Roe v. Wade. School staff told the family the poem satisfied every rubric criterion...

Massie apparently told West at the time that he had sex with Lauren Boebert shortly after his wife passed away. After Boebert had reportedly spent the weekend campaigning for Thomas Massie. [cut] Massie bragged about his sexual relations with Boebert while Ms. West was dating Massie and that Massie's district director, Christopher McCane, would allegedly 'manage' the women Massie dated... According to Cynthia West, Thomas Massie used a burner phone to communicate with the woman he had dated after the death of his wife. As per West, Massie even named the phone a 'boner phone." West further claimed that he...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a primary challenge on ​Saturday for hardline conservative Representative Lauren Boebert, until now ‌a staunch Trump ally, after she campaigned for maverick Representative Thomas Massie in his Kentucky district. "Boebert is campaigning for the Worst 'Republican' Congressman ​in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of ​the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can ⁠be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!" Trump ​wrote on Truth Social. Boebert, a Colorado congresswoman, responded with a ​post on X: "Yes, I saw the President’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended....

Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert endorsed Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie Friday despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to primary challenge him. Trump launched an aggressive effort to unseat Massie by endorsing his opponent, Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, and has harshly criticized Massie over his criticisms of the Iran war, his opposition of the big, beautiful bill and his push to release the files surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. Four days before Massie’s primary, Boebert said on X that Massie “loves America and is fighting to save it,” while also praising Trump in the same statement. “Below is my friend Thomas Massie. He...

Colorado's Dem Governor Polis commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure Peters issued a statement through her attorney thanking Polis and apologizing. “Five years ago I misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong,” Peters said. “I have learned and grown during my time in prison and going forward I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.”

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday cut former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ nine-year prison sentence in half, and ordered the 70-year-old, who has become a national martyr for election conspiracy theorists, to be released on parole June 1. Peters’ sentence for orchestrating a security breach of her county’s election system in 2021 in a failed attempt to uncover voter fraud is now four years and four and a half months under a clemency order issued by the governor. “She, because of her incorrect and unpopular speech, got an unduly harsh sentence,” Polis said Friday in an interview with The...

Jared Polls, the Democrat governor of Colorado, reduces the sentence of election denier Tina Peters. She will be released the 1 June, says the Governor.

DENVER — Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has signed a rare pro-life measure into law, expanding the window in which mothers can surrender their newborns to safe havens from 72 hours after birth to 30 days. The straightforward HB26-1024 expands the window during which women who decide they are unwilling or unable to raise a child can legally turn him or her over to a firefighter or hospital staffer. It takes effect August 12. Colorado Safe Haven for Newborns, the organization that backed the change, credits the original 2000 law with saving 99 newborns, but suggests the original window was...

A man who killed one person and injured a dozen more in a firebombing attack on demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages in Gaza was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus over 2,000 more years immediately after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and dozens of other state charges. Mohamed Sabry Soliman said he wished he could get the death penalty under Colorado law and asked federal authorities to seek capital punishment against him in the related hate crime case pending against him in federal court. “The court finds your choices were acts of terror and they victimized an entire...