[ Local ]

• After months of controversy, the Draco Well Pad proposal from Civitas Resources, Inc., a 26-well project in Weld County, is approved by the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) in a 4-1 vote.
• Amid reduced funding, TGTHR, a Boulder-based non-profit focused on youth homelessness, is forced to shut down its emergency shelter known as The Source, which was the only youth homeless shelter in the city.
• During a pro-Israel protest in Boulder, an man uses a makeshift flamethrower to attack the protesters, injuring 12 people in the process. The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is being charged with a federal hate crime.
• Hundreds protest Trump’s layoffs and anti-science policies on International Workers Day in front of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder.

[ National ]

• Elon Musk exits the Trump administration and, after criticizing Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” has a very public falling out that leads to the two men bickering on social media.
• After demonstrations in Los Angeles protesting ICE raids in the city, Donald Trump deploys 2,000 National Guard troops to the city to control the unrest. The move leads to California Governor Gavin Newsom suing the Trump administration.
• President Trump issues a travel ban barring travelers from Afghanistan, Chad, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, the Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the country.
• The Trump administration finalizes plans to remove funding from 988 crisis suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth.

[ International ]

• Following the death of Pope Francis, the papal conclave elects Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
• An aid boat bound for Gaza containing activists including Greta Thunberg is seized by Israeli authorities for trying to bring much-needed supplies like baby formula, food and medical supplies into Gaza.
• Tens of thousands of protesters in Spain demonstrate and call for early elections in the nation’s capital of Madrid in response to perceived corruption within the government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
• Austrian pop artist JJ wins the popular Eurovision Song Contest for 2025 with the song “Wasted Love.”

Quotes

“[Donald Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.” 

– Elon Musk on X after his falling out with Trump

“Our community has worked tireless and bravely this legislative session. And now, with HB25-1312, Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals, and HB25-1309, Protecting Access to Gender Affirming Healthcare, heading to the Senate for final votes, Colorado stands firm: as a safe place for transgender people and their families, a beacon of hope for transgender Americans across the country, and a blueprint for progress that other states can follow”

– One Colorado’s comment on the Kelly Loving Act

“I also turn to the powerful of the world repeating the always timely appeal: never again a war!”

– Pope Leo XIV

“Fear is the way that they win, for one. And so keep telling the stories and keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are.”

–Actor Pedro Pascal addressing the Cannes Film Festival

By the Numbers

200

The number of prisoners that Russia and Ukraine could potentially release on each side in an ongoing prisoner swap

18

The number of years that Israel has maintained a blockade on Gaza, preventing the delivery of essential items

$25.5 million

The amount of funding the University of Colorado has lost due to Trump’s budget cuts.

55,000

The approximate number of Palestinians killed in the War in Gaza in an attempt by Israel to secure the release of 55 hostages

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