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Colorado lawmaker claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation

Lauren Boebert, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.

The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.

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© Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

© Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

© Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

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Jacqueline de Ribes, Tastemaker and Fashion Avatar, Dies at 96

One of few people in the world of style who could legitimately claim the status of icon, she dressed to impress even before she became a designer.

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Jacqueline de Ribes in 1953. She designed clothes for herself and for a socially prominent clientele.
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10-year-old girl tortured to death by dad jumped out apartment window, begged strangers to save her months earlier

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly tortured to death by her father and his girlfriend just months after she jumped out of a window to escape the abuse — only to be returned by police officers. Rebekah Baptiste, 10, was found on the side of an Arizona highway beaten and starving in July following years of...

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Mamdani Names Top Deputies for Child Care, Operations and Climate

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, announced several key appointments who could help implement central promises of his agenda, including universal child care.

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Emmy Liss, a veteran education leader, will be the director of New York City’s child care office.
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In Chief Justice’s Annual Report, a History Lesson and Embrace of Independence

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. did not directly address the tensions between the Trump administration and federal judges who have blocked the president’s agenda.

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in May. By tradition, he releases his report about the state of the nation’s courts on the last day of the year.
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