By Lindsey Toomer | reporter
“It’s the responsibility of fossil fuel companies to support these impacted communities. We’re very concerned about the future.”
- Deirdre Macnab, a Rio Blanco County cattle rancher
Kathleen Sullivan Kelley rides one of her horses at her Rio Blanco County ranch. (Photo courtesy of Kathleen Sullivan Kelley)
By Sharon Sullivan
A group of Colorado ranchers filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a lawsuit brought by the city of Boulder and Boulder County against three Suncor Energy entities and Exxon Mobil. Boulder is seeking monetary damages for costs incurred responding to wildfires, repairing transportation infrastructure, restoring watersheds and other harm related to climate change. “Our (weather) conditions have changed so much during my lifetime,” one of the ranchers said. “Now three-quarters of the year is fire season. We’re watching for fire all the time. That’s our life now. We’re constantly thinking about fire mitigation.”
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives with his then-personal attorney Todd Blanche in court for opening statements in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 22, 2024, in New York City. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Since his election, he’s nominated Blanche to be attorney general of the United States. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)
By Sam Gauntt
Todd Blanche took the oath of office as U.S. attorney general at a brief ceremony in the Oval Office Monday, following the Senate’s narrow vote to approve his nomination as the nation’s top law enforcement official over the weekend. Blanche, who served as acting attorney general and was President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer before joining the government, succeeds Pam Bondi — whom Trump ousted in April — as head of the Department of Justice.
Haitians living in Brooklyn learn to use a whistle to blow if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrive in their neighborhood during an Immigrant Resource Fair and Know Your Rights Event in an area of Brooklyn known as “Little Haiti” on July 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
By Ariana Figueroa
Even before Haitian immigrants in Ohio officially lost their Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security required dozens of them to report to immigration appointments and accept ankle monitors, according to their attorneys and local advocates. Community leaders and lawyers from other cities with large Haitian immigrant populations such as Boston, Chicago and Miami have not seen the same tactic.
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