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BLUFFTON, South Carolina — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up. “So, how did all you people become citizens?” he asks. “Did you pass a test?” “No,” one young woman says tentatively.

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, AUDREY McAVOY, BERNARD CONDON and MICHAEL R. SISAK KAAAWA, Hawaii (AP) — Ryan Routh portrayed himself online as a man who built housing for homeless people in Hawaii, tried to recruit fighters for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, and described his support and then disdain for Donald Trump — even urging Iran to kill him. “You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh wrote of Iran in an apparently self-published book in 2023, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” which described the former president as a “fool” and “buffoon” for both the Jan.

Drivers can expect single-lane closures in both direction on Park Avenue this week as the Regional Transportation Direction tests light-rail trains through Denver’s Five Points neighborhood ahead of the L Line’s return later this month. Related Articles Transportation | RTD rail work will force six-day closure along Kalamath Street in central Denver Transportation | A state tax credit was designed to help relieve congestion on major metro Denver highways.

Colorado’s outbreak of avian flu in poultry and dairy cattle seems to have died down, though the state continues to monitor farms for signs of the virus. That doesn’t include regularly testing farms’ workers though — unless they have symptoms and their employers have a known outbreak. Dairies have to bulk-test their milk at least once a week for H5N1, a flu virus that is particularly lethal to poultry and spilled over to cattle earlier this year.

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is looking into recent power outages reported by Xcel Energy customers to determine whether the number of outages and complaints are on the rise. The three-member commission voted Wednesday to support the PUC’s staff recommendation to investigate the causes of the outages as well as rules for reporting interruptions in electric service.

As the sun rose on a residential street in Denver’s West Washington Park neighborhood, the loudest sound along the sidewalk was the chirping of insects hidden among gardens of native plants. Avi Stopper, thermos in hand, surveyed his front yard. A magenta desert willow bloomed, and a small bee crawled on an aromatic aster, a bush bearing purple flowers. Stopper walked to the sidewalk to point out chocolate flowers — yellow wildflowers named not for their color, but for their fragrance. All around him, native plants were thriving.