[ Local ]

• Stone Canyon Fire burns over 1,500 acres, destroys six homes, and claims one life
• Yellow Scene wins lawsuit against the City of Boulder over attempt to charge thousands of dollars for the release of unedited police bodycam shooting footage
•  MAGA Conspiracy theorist Tina Peters was found guilty of multiple felonies from trying to hack into Colorado voting records to prove Biden lost the election
• Boulder local Brooke Raboutou takes home the silver medal in climbing, the first ever for the U.S. women’s climbing team
• Zebra mussels, an invasive species, are spotted in the Colorado River close to Grand Junction

[ National ]

• Joe Biden bows out of the presidential race, frustrating Trump
• Kamala Harris chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, a much more normal pick than Trump’s choice of JD Vance
• President of Columbia University steps down over controversy of handling of Israel-Hamas student protests by removing pro-Palestinian protectors
• Justice Clarence Thomas is accused of more undisclosed trips and gifts, this time a luxury yacht vacation to Russia, raising concerns of being even more deeply compromised that believed

[ International ]

• Israel kills Hamas military commander and 90 other people, also strikes at Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. U.S. warns of significant Iranian retaliation to come
• Over one thousand people were arrested in the UK for violent rioting and looting by mobs of people inflamed by racist rhetoric, including Elon Musk, who said UK civil war is “inevitable”
• Plane crashes in Brazil, killing all 60 people onboard as onlookers watched it slowly fall from the sky
• Ukraine counterattacks and invades part of Russia, shocking Putin and changing the scope of the battlefield
• Planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna was thwarted by authorities, the concert was canceled but thankfully no attack occurred

Quotes

“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians… In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote,”
– Trump openly talking about ending U.S. democracy

“These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away. They want to be in your exam room,”
– Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz

“Getting the majority back in the House is next to impossible, but there is a difference between Dems having just the majority rather than the supermajority they enjoy now,” 
– Republican HD50 candidate Ryan Gonzales on upcoming Colorado state elections

“Is she Indian or is she Black? She was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn when she became a Black person,” 
– 44th President not understanding how someone can be biracial

By the Numbers

40/44/42

Gold, silver, and bronze medals won by the United States in the 2024 Paris Olympics

$1.7 Trillion

Estimated value of land stolen from tribes in Colorado alone

0

Number of proposed anti-transgender ballot initiatives that made it to the Colorado ballot

$100 Billion

Amount of taxes paid by illegal immigrants according to Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

10

Days that Twitter (X) has been shut off by the government so far in Venezuela following disputed presidential elections