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LAFAYETTE, Colorado (KCNC) -- The City of Lafayette is sending out more letters this week to the 270 people who still have plots at the city cemetery but might not be able to use them. The city established a moratorium to halt all casket burials this fall, and conducted a ground penetrating data study, which they presented this month.The study held recommendations by the state archeologist, and the city voted to delay a decision on closing the cemetery. The study showed that the cemetery, which dates back to the 1800s, is nearly full even though there are still 270 ou

More than 200 Coloradans buried in Lafayette Cemetery missing from city records

Feds charge 15 people in Minnesota with defrauding government social service programs

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Trump postpones signing artificial intelligence order out of concern it would hurt the AI industry

President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology. Trump said he was postponing the signing because he did not like what he saw in the order’s text. He announced the change hours before the event was scheduled to take place in the Oval Office. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told reporters at an unrelated Oval Office event.

Mother of New Orleans boy killed by alligator pushing for DCFS records to stay confidential

Average US long-term mortgage rate climbs to 6.51%, highest level in nearly nine months

Turkey court rules to oust opposition leader in latest blow to Erdogan's challengers

A Turkish court effectively ousted the main opposition leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday, annulling the 2023 party congress that elected him chairman in a ruling that dealt a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan's challengers and hit financial markets.The appeals court annulled the congress over irregularities and ruled that former Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu - a divisive figure within the party who lost to Erdogan in an election earlier in 2023 - should replace his successor Ozel.The case was seen as a test of Turkey's shaky balance between democracy and autocracy, an

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Trump eases refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs

The Trump administration on Thursday loosened federal rules that require grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, a step President Donald Trump said would help lower grocery costs. Trump, at a White House ceremony, said the action by the Environmental Protection Agency would “substantially lower costs for consumers” by delaying costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants U.S. businesses and families can use. The move to relax the Biden-era rules on harmful pollutants known as HFCs emitted by

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Judge dismisses charges against former school official in case of 6-year-old who shot teacher

A Virginia circuit court judge on Thursday dismissed criminal charges against Ebony Parker, a former elementary school assistant principal, in a case connected to a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in January 2023.Prosecutors had alleged Parker ignored warnings that the boy had a gun shortly before the shooting, but her defense argued the allegations were not criminal. Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Robinson agreed with the defense in dismissing the case.“The court is of the legal opinion that this is not a crime,” she said.Parker put her head down on the defendant’s table and appeared t

The most powerful rocket ever built is now even bigger and more powerful. But will it work?

US Republican senator says Trump ballroom funding removed from spending bill

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First on CNN: James Talarico endorses in House runoff to try to block Democrat who made antisemitic remarks

James Talarico, Texas Democrats’ US Senate nominee, has thrown his support behind Johnny Garcia in the state’s 35th Congressional District, where Democrats are ramping up their efforts to block a rival candidate who made antisemitic comments ahead of a runoff election next week.“Born and raised in a working class household in San Antonio, Garcia is a deputy sheriff with a track record of protecting the communities he’s running to represent,” Talarico said in a statement first reported by CNN. “Garcia knows how to fight for working Texans because he is a working Texan, and his battl

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A year on from Washington museum attack, two women battle with survivor’s guilt

Two young women who hid under a car as a gunman launched a murderous assault in Washington, DC, last year have described how speaking to survivors of the Holocaust and other terrorist attacks has helped them confront their trauma.Catherine Szkop, now 29, and Abbie Talmoud, now 25, were just feet away from their colleagues Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim when they were killed. Now, on the first anniversary of the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21, 2025, they have spoken to CNN about what unfolded that evening and their efforts to come to terms with it.The four, who worked

Colorado governor censured by own party over his decision to free election denier Tina Peters

Michigan woman whose name inspired band to become Greta Van Fleet dies at 95

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Supreme Court dismisses Alabama's bid to execute inmate with borderline intellectual disability

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed Alabama's bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murder who was found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled. The court's action leaves in place lower court rulings in favor of Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, who has been on death row roughly half his life after his conviction for beating a man to death in 1997. The Supreme Court prohibited execution of intellectually disabled people in a landmark ruling in 2002. The justices, in cases in 2014 and 2017, held that states should consider other evidence of disability in

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New record set as 274 climbers scale Everest’s south side in single day

A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountain’s south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said.That’s nearly 50 more than the previous high of 223 set on May 22, 2019, though the overall number was higher that day because some climbers reached the summit from the mountain’s northern side in Tibet. China issued no permits to climb the north face this year, according to reports.Rishi Bhandari, secretary general of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal, confirmed the figure to CNN, crediting good weather

Attack on Russian drone pilot training camp kills at least 66, Ukraine says

A third of National Park island home to rare wildlife has burned in spate of Southern California wildfires

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Thank El Niño for NOAA’s latest forecast for Atlantic hurricane season

Time is ticking down to the June 1 start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s first forecast for it is finalized.NOAA’s team of experts is predicting a below-average hurricane season, similar to other experts’ forecasts in recent weeks. The anticipated return of El Niño — and its potential to become historically strong — is a major driving force behind the outlook.Overall, NOAA says this season has a 55% chance of being a below-average hurricane season with 35% and 10% chances of near-average and above-average seasons, respe

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How bushmeat, burial rites and disinformation make the DRC an Ebola hotspot

In rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a lethal Ebola strain has torn through local communities – claiming over 100 lives and triggering a global health emergency.The virus was first discovered in the DRC in 1976, and remains an enduring threat. The central African nation has seen 17 outbreaks, more than any other country – a severe outbreak between 2018 and 2020 left 2,299 people dead.Ebola, an often fatal virus that causes severe symptoms, including high fever and both internal and external bleeding, originates in wildlife. It is transmitted to humans through close contact with the

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls