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KUNC's Samantha Coetzee speaks with Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman about renewable energy development on the Eastern Plains, the presence of forever chemicals on Colorado farmland, and frustrations with mail service in Buena Vista.

KUNC is introducing a new segment on Morning Edition. Every Tuesday and Thursday, KUNC’s Samantha Coetzee will be talking local news with colleagues at the Colorado Sun. Today she spoke to Colorado Sun environment writer Michael Booth.

Lawmakers are embroiled in a dayslong stalemate over electing the next speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy starts a third day facing a group of fellow Republicans who object to him.

Judge Robert McBurney overturned Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling that it violated precedent when it was enacted three years ago and was therefore void.

By most countries' standards, China's economy is flourishing. It grew almost 7 percent in the last quarter and 9 percent for 2008. Still, that was a slowdown, snapping a five-year streak of double-digit growth. China is the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan.

A professor who is an expert in national security has testified that then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and federal law enforcement to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan 6, 2021. The testimony came Tuesday as a Colorado case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new phase. William Banks is a Syracuse University law professor who was called by lawyers for the Colorado voters trying to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot under the rarely used "insurrection" clause of the Constitution. Trump's lawyers say the military had assured the then-president they had a plan for protest security.

Six-year old Jerry Morrison is obsessed with space — a love that intensifies when talking to his uncle, a NASA engineer. "I learned from you a lot," Morrison told him. "More than I could imagine."

Tuesday's hearing looks at the role of groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — and the groups' possible connection to former President Donald Trump.

The news comes after Ireland posted disappointing GDP numbers and further pressures the European Union to take definitive action on its sovereign debt crisis.

"For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said in the select committee hearing. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended."