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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

Video: Denver cops pepper spray, tackle, arrest police-brutality protestors

"One of the cops fell off his motorcycle, which created this moment of chaos. I don’t know if they worried they’d be vulnerable, but they just started attacking people."

World premiere: Filmmaker Kim Shively’s caveman reboot of ‘Dorian Gray’

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a perfectly Victorian novel. And it’s not impossible to imagine it retold in the present or even the...

Homebrew: Denver gangs talk truce with cops

Getting along Denver gang members have been meeting together in a hotel room trying to negotiate a truce to quell the violence that has been...

Senate Republicans bury windfall $20M per year for Denver public schools

Denver public schools Wednesday afternoon lost $20 million a year that would have funneled directly into classrooms. The windfall would have come without lawmakers passing...

Afraid to lose: Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli pulled a McNulty and halted debate...

Florida Republican House Speaker Steve Crisafulli took a page from former Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty on Tuesday. Crisafulli knew members of his Republican...

It all ends in a Nevada mud puddle: Lake Mead, the Colorado River and...

In case you missed it: The terrifying evaporating mud puddle that was once Lake Mead outside of Las Vegas is a flashing warning sign...

Megachurch vs. mom-and-pop music shop

The battle in Lafayette between a mom-and-pop music store and fast-expanding Flatirons megachurch may finally get legal. It was always moving this way. Flatirons Community...

Wiretap: Pastors, politicians, gang members uniting Baltimore

Holding hands Pastors, politicians, community leaders and even gang members take to the streets in Baltimore -- not to riot or even protest but to...

New report: American Psychological Association bolstered Bush-era torture

The American Psychological Association secretly worked behind the scenes with the Bush Administration to craft moral and legal justifications for torture, states a renegade...

After Freddie Gray uprising, Hillary’s logo goes multicolored rainbow. But where’s black?

By Monday, the Baltimore protests against the killing of Freddie Gray had seized the imagination of the country. And Hillary Clinton came out in support of gay...
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