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      Super Tuesday live: Donald Trump likely to win primaries as 16 US states vote

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 5 March - 11:02 · 1 minute

    Former president looks all but certain of Republican presidential nomination as Nikki Haley faces last chance to make an impact on the race

    Donald Trump has continued his domination of the race to be the Republican nominee for president with an expected victory in Monday’s North Dakota Republican caucuses.

    As his campaign headed into Super Tuesday the former president will most likely stretch his lead over Nikki Haley by all 29 of North Dakota’s delegates. If he wins at least 60% of the vote he gets all of the delegates. If his vote is less than 60%, then the delegates will be split proportional to the respective votes for Trump and Haley.

    I think we’re going to send a message that is going to be a kick-off to tomorrow, which is president Donald Trump is going to close this out, this is going to be the end of the trail, and we’re going to say we have a nominee, and let’s go after it, and beat Joe Biden in the fall.

    Yesterday North Dakota held its Republican presidential caucuses and Donald Trump is expected to win convincingly according to the AP. However, turnout was low.

    Joe Biden has announced a “strike force” to crack down on “unfair and illegal” prices. The new panel will target businesses “when they try to rip off Americans”, the Biden administration said .

    The US supreme court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado’s primary ballot last year .

    People incarcerated in state-run facilities in Texas and Florida are the most exposed to dangerous heat conditions being exacerbated by the climate crisis.

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      Colorado moves to change law after 190 bodies found decaying in funeral home

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 March - 23:48

    Proposals would stiffen state’s lax funeral home laws after series of gruesome cases, from sold body parts to fake ashes

    After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state’s threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent a string of gruesome cases – from sold body parts to fake ashes.

    The cases have shattered hundreds of families. Many learned that their loved ones’ remains were not in the ashes they ceremonially spread or held tight for years but were instead decaying in a building or, in one case, the back of hearse.

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      Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado ballot, US supreme court rules

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 March - 15:02

    Court’s decision overturns ruling from state supreme court that disqualified Trump from primary over January 6 attack

    Donald Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado’s primary ballot last year, the US supreme court has ruled.

    The court’s significant decision overturns a 4-3 ruling from the Colorado supreme court that said the former president could not run because he had engaged in insurrection during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The Colorado decision was a novel interpretation of section 3 of the 14th amendment , which bars insurrectionists from holding office.

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      ‘People can check the Trump box’: Colorado primary proceeds even as US supreme court reviews eligibility

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 March - 12:00

    The Guardian speaks to two experts on state politics about the oddity of Trump’s qualifications remaining unclear

    An air of uncertainty hangs over Colorado voters as they mark their ballots in the state’s presidential primaries.

    Colorado is at the centre of perhaps the most dramatic, high-stakes legal disputes that the US supreme court has seen in the past century. The nation’s highest court is expected to decide an appeal of a Colorado ruling that disqualified Donald Trump from the state’s ballot under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, for inciting an insurrection.

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      US supreme court to issue ruling as Trump Colorado ballot case looms

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 3 March - 21:45

    Court did not specify what ruling, planned for Monday, will be issued, but decision to come a day before state’s primary election

    The US supreme court plans to issue at least one ruling on Monday, the day before Colorado holds a presidential primary election in which a lower court kicked Republican frontrunner Donald Trump off the ballot for taking part in an insurrection during the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack.

    The supreme court, in an unusual Sunday update to its schedule, did not specify what ruling it would issue. But the justices on 8 February heard arguments in Trump’s appeal of the Colorado ruling and are due to issue their own decision.

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      ‘They felt no need to stop the brutality’: Colorado paramedic gets five-year prison term for killing Elijah McClain

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 2 March - 00:15

    Peter Cichuniec one of two paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide for role in 23-year-old’s death after police stop

    A former Colorado paramedic has been sentenced to five years in prison in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by Aurora police.

    Peter Cichuniec was one of two paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide for their roles in the 23-year-old’s death, which sparked years of protests and changes in the law. A jury also found Cichuniec guilty of second-degree assault. The outcome marks an extremely rare instance of a paramedic being found criminally liable and facing a prison sentence for a death in police custody.

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      Cold Meat review – two-handed survival thriller goes deep into the icebound Rockies

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 19 February - 11:00 · 1 minute

    A man is stuck in a car in the freezing Colorado mountains with no mobile signal – and violent intent brewing

    If this UK-Canadian thriller has a wind-hardened snowcrust of malice, it’s somewhat less dense under the surface – though still an enjoyable punt from the digital-release ranks. Amiable but downtrodden waitress Ana (Nina Bergman) has her bacon saved by chance diner David (Allen Leech) when her abusive husband Vincent (Yan Tual) comes calling. Eerily calm in the face of having his dessert desecrated and a potential shanking, David drives off unharmed. But, redneck to the core, Vincent tailgates him; skidding into a snow drift, David is stuck in the Colorado Rockies in a -40C blizzard with, of course, no mobile reception.

    From the sharply written rebuff over cherry pie onwards, French director Sébastien Drouin’s feature debut shows a concise pulpy assurance – including devious deployment of plot twists starting with what David has in his trunk. Cold Meat suddenly becomes a hatchback-bound two-hander, with survival challenges on two fronts: the lethal cold outside and the psychopathic intent within. Drouin and his co-writers James Kermack and Andrew Desmond are admirably forensic in laying out this predicament, from the logistics of how to escape a car boot, to the feints and provocations employed by a sadistic mind.

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      Remains of 30 people found in Denver after ex-funeral home owner evicted

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 16 February - 20:37

    Body of woman, 63, also found at house as police issue warrant for Miles Harford, 33, who owned funeral home that closed in 2022

    The body of a woman who died in 2022 and the cremated remains of about 30 people were found at a rental house in Denver after the eviction of a former funeral home owner, Denver police said on Friday.

    A warrant was issued for Miles Harford, 33, who owned Apollo Funeral and Cremation Service in Littleton, which has been closed since September 2022. The expected charges include abuse of a corpse, forgery of the death certificate and theft of the money paid for the cremation.

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      Five key takeaways on US supreme court’s hearing on removing Trump from the ballot

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 8 February - 19:36

    Both conservative and liberal justices aggressively questioned argument that Colorado was right in barring Trump

    The US supreme court heard oral arguments on whether former president Donald Trump should be removed from the ballot on Thursday – and most justices sounded deeply skeptical of the effort.

    All six of the court’s conservative justices aggressively questioned the arguments that the state of Colorado had been right in determining that Trump should be barred from appearing as a candidate under section three of the US constitution’s 14th amendment. Two of the three liberal justices asked pointed questions as well, an indication that there may be broad consensus to strike down the ruling.

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