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Thursday, August 28, 2025

CDC director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign

HHS officials did not explain why Monarez is no longer with the agency.

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CDC dramatically scales back program that tracks food poisoning infections

The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network cut required monitoring to two pathogens, down from eight.

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Boulder Run for Their Lives stops publicizing its events, citing safety concerns

The Boulder Chapter of Run for Their Lives, the group that was targeted in the June 1 firebombing attack on the Pearl Street Mall, will no longer publicly advertise its weekly marches out of safety concerns.

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Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak

National Guard troops have been patrolling Union Station.

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Colorado’s legislature has filled a third of budget gap by slashing tax breaks. Here’s what comes next.

“What we did here in this special session is soften the blow,” said Sen. Jeff Bridges, a Greenwood Village Democrat who chairs the legislature’s budget committee.

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Trump family crypto empire expands with Crypto.com partnership

This move follows a trend where companies buy and hold cryptocurrency as a business strategy.

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Colorado House condemns now-former lawmaker who took and shared photo of colleague for ridicule

“A number of you made comments about my appearance,” Rep. Yara Zokaie told her Republican colleagues. “You called me a stripper and a prostitute. Some of you sat silently by. You are complicit, too.”