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In an interview with Megyn Kelly, while defending JD Vance for admitting they make up stories like Haitians eating cats and dogs to get their message out, The National Review Online's Editor in Chief Rich Lowry appeared to have something else on his mind when he described Haitian migrants. (h/t Madeline Peltz) Defending Vance for admitting to lying about migrants eating cats and dogs to make a point, Megyn Kelly said she hates the press even more.

Rep. Laurel Lee demanded Democrats stop campaigning against Trump on Fox and Friends because she feels they are too mean to him. Maybe Rep. Lee should look at Trump's constant vitriolic attacks on the left, the media and the Democratic party. After the latest nut was apprehended in Florida who had assassination of his mind, it's not surprising Republicans are blaming Democratic Party.

A longtime staple of the Front Range’s Mexican food scene will soon serve its last taco. Comida is preparing to close at The Stanley Marketplace in Aurora (2501 Dallas St., Unit 140) after eight years, according to posts on social media. Its last service will be brunch on Sept. 22. Comida owner Rayme Rossello talks with Eric Wallace, co-founder of Left Hand Brewing Company, and Cinzia Wallace, at the bar inside Comida in Longmont.

FORT COLLINS — CSU Rams football coach said Monday that he’d “be surprised” if star wide receiver Tory Horton plays this weekend’s game against UTEP. “I don’t believe Tory will play,” Norvell said during his weekly news conference, “and (he) probably shouldn’t have played last week.” Horton, a 6-foot-2 senior and one of the top wideouts in Mountain West history, played in the Rocky Mountain Showdown against CU — a 28-9 Rams loss — while clearly hobbled by a groin injury he’d suffered in a win over UNC the weekend prior. Norvell had said the Monday prior that he expected Horton would play against the Buffs, especially given the stakes of the rivalry, and the stakes of its being the first CU-CSU game at Fort Collins since 1996. The California native caught just two balls for 24 yards, his lowest yardage total in a game since a loss at Utah State (20 yards) last Oct.

LA PORTE, Texas — A massive pipeline fire in suburban Houston was shooting a giant plume of fire into the air for more than two hours on Monday as first-responders evacuated a surrounding neighborhood where some homes have caught fire. The fire began at 9:55 a.m. with an explosion that rattled nearby homes in Deer Park and La Porte, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of downtown Houston, long the energy capital of the U.

Not long ago, Mark Chiverton, a 33-year-old in the U. K., noticed he was making a lot of silly mistakes. He’d mix up words when writing emails, or blank on a basic term while talking to his wife. None of these slip-ups were all that concerning on their own—but they were happening frequently enough that Chiverton worried he was, to put it bluntly, “getting dumber.” “At first I thought, ‘Maybe it’s just general aging, or maybe I bashed my head and didn’t realize it,’” he says.