The Republican-majority House of Representatives could vote on a $95 billion package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific as early as Saturday. It is the same amount that was requested by the Biden administration months ago  and that package now has the president's support.  How did we get here? Weeks ago, the Senate passed a foreign aid package that would have helped Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and Pacific allies, and provided humanitarian assistance to Gaza. And for weeks on the House of Representatives side, there were questions as to whether or not that bill would ever come up fo ..read more

Through mysterious social media posts, a pop-up installation in Los Angeles, and a real-life scavenger hunt across the world, pop star Taylor Swift is summoning her community of fans better known as "Swifties" for her latest album entitled The Tortured Poets Department. "What we see now as Taylor this unprecedented artist of today is the byproduct or the result of having invested so much time in her community over the years," said marketing expert Marcus Collins. "People feel like 'I'm talking to my friend, like Taylor, that's my girl!'" Collins is the author of the bestselling book "For the C ..read more

The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is seeking more potential victims after a man was arrested after breaking into a house and exposing himself to a minor. According to police, 31-year-old Cole Cordova was given a citation for unlawful sexual contact for an incident on April 12. CSPD says they are seeking victims for two additional incidents involving Cordova that happened near the intersection of Briargate Parkway and Union Boulevard on April 6. Police also believe there may be other incidents that haven't been reported. They say these incidents could've involved a man with dark hai ..read more

Employee safety is top of mind as U.S. Postal Service officials are offering rewards leading to evidence following a series of letter-carrier robberies and thefts.  This week the United States Postal Inspection Service announced a $150,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect who is accused of robbing a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in late March in Arlington, Texas.  On Thursday the USPIS released an image and information as they work to arrest another suspect accused of stealing mail and parcels in New York. Postal officials are offerin ..read more

The system used to determine financial aid packages for millions of college students got revamped, but the transition has been anything but smooth, with glitches in calculations for federal Pell grants and setbacks in the rollout for the FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Around this time of year, high school seniors bound for college and active college students should be weighing financial offers from those schools. But those decisions are delayed. Vanessa Mendiola would like to know where she's headed this fall. "I've applied to University of Texas-San Antonio, Lam ..read more

The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions. The resolution would have recommended that the 193-member General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, approve Palestine becoming the 194th member of the United Nations. Some 140 countries have already recognized the state of Palestine, so its admission would have been approved. Before the vote, U.S. deputy State Department spoke ..read more

The groundbreaking on Berthoud's first adaptive park is scheduled for May, according to an announcement Wednesday. "Earlier this year the Town of Berthouds Board of Trustees voted unanimously to use a cap of $650,000 of uncommitted park development and improvements funds toward the project," the announcement said. So far, $1 million has been raised to make the Berthoud Adaptive Park Project a reality, thanks in part to generous Denver7 viewers donating at least $5,000 to the Denver7 Gives fund. This park has been more than two years in the making. It all started with the Bowling family. Lauren ..read more

As we mark 25 years since the tragedy at Columbine High School, Denver7 has shared stories of the beauty that came from that dark day. One of those stories is of the elementary school math project that turned into a grassroots fundraising effort. Students in first to sixth grade at nearby Columbine Hills Elementary School collected an incredible 500,000 pennies that helped fund a new library at the high school. Denver7 spoke with the teacher behind the original penny-collecting project, as well as two now-grown Columbine Hills students who were involved in the penny drive and Dawn Anna, the mo ..read more

DENVER First Lady Jill Biden will visit Colorado this weekend to speak about a White House initiative seeking to change how the country approaches and funds research on womens health. The first lady will arrive at Denver International Airport Friday night to attend a roundtable discussion at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora happening on Saturday at noon. The discussion will center around the Bidens White House Initiative on Womens Health Research, launched late last year with the goal of fundamentally changing how the U.S. approaches and funds research on womens hea ..read more

Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying to the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal. The firings confirmed by Google late Wednesday came a day after nine employees were arrested during sit-in protests at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, after the company called police. The dissent roiling Google centers on Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 that calls upon Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing a ..read more