Flash Briefs

On Monday, two Colorado congressmen introduced the Protecting Kids from Fentanyl Act, which would allow schools to utilize leftover COVID-19 relief funds to battle against rising fentanyl overdoses.  

Hurricane Ian, which became a Category 4 storm early Wednesday, is expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast sometime mid-week. 

The Republican National Committee is calling out President Joe Biden and the Democrats. 

Billions of dollars are being spent on the midterm elections in 2022 — more than $9.3 billion — up from $7.1 billion spent four years ago. 

Democrats have reversed their outlook on crime in the last few months after prominent liberals became victims of rising crime. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that over 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States between 2017 and 2019 were “preventable,” while the remaining 15 percent of deaths were nonpreventable.  

Kevin McCarthy will announce it in a red Pittsburgh suburb, not on the Capitol steps. In most other ways, though, his Friday GOP agenda rollout will mirror Newt Gingrich’s 28-year-old Contract With America. 

According to a report by the National Association of Realtors released Wednesday, sales were down nearly 20 percent from a year ago.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that Russia’s decision to mobilize some reservists showed that Moscow is not serious about negotiating an end to its nearly seven-month-long war. 

A diversity and inclusion training by the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado instructed cadets to use words that “include all genders” and to refrain from saying things like “mom” and “dad.”