Morgan Lee, Associated Press

The decision in Colorado to charge an immigration officer with assault after a protester was grabbed by the neck and pulled away could test the boundaries of immunity provisions for federal agents in the line of duty. A Colorado prosecutor confirmed Wednesday that an immigration officer has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief following an investigation into the treatment of a protester in October 2025.

Workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants plan to return to work next week and halt a three-week strike in order to resume negotiations with the plant's owner. The strike by thousands of workers at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley began on March 16.

Federal workplace safety regulators have penalized three businesses over their failure to protect six Colorado dairy workers who were killed by exposure to highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space.

A coroner’s report on the cause of six deaths at a Colorado dairy points to their exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas as the cause. The report from the Weld County coroner’s office on Thursday is based on autopsies and toxicology tests.

Six people who died in what authorities suspect was exposure to gas at a dairy farm include a 50-year-old father and two sons, one of whom was in high school.

An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights. Daunting legal and logistical obstacles to voting persist in remote stretches of the southwestern United States, where the Native vote is credited with swinging the 2020 presidential election in Arizona to President Joe Biden. In New Mexico, recent election reforms are promising tribal communities a greater voice in how and where they can vote — bolstering an already robust path to political power.

The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War.