The Latest: Foreign hackers target US senators, aides’ Gmail

A Google spokesman says the company has notified an unspecified number of senators and aides that their personal email accounts continue to be targeted by state-backed foreign hackers. Spokesman Aaron Stein would not disclose further details such as who was behind the attempted break-ins, their timing or who was targeted.

Wyoming Marches to Keep Families Together

From Jackson to Cheyenne, people protested the separation of migrant families at the border and advocates say the fight has just begun People wrote messages in chalk outside of ICE's Cheyenne office on Saturday as part of the nationwide protests against Trump's immigration policy. undreds of thousands of people in more than 700 American towns and cities took to the streets on June 30 to protest President Trump's immigration policy.

Delegation opposes paper tariff

Wyoming's congressional delegation is speaking out against tariffs on Canadian newsprint that are driving up costs for newspaper publishers to the point of threatening to close some smaller community publications. For many of America's community newspapers, tariffs on Canadian newsprint threatens to increase costs by as much as 20 percent.

EPA’s Pruitt lived in DC condo connected to energy lobbyist

Sen. John Barrasso, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Sen. Mike Enzi talk to the press after a tour of the Black Thunder Coal Mine outside of Wright, Wyo., Thursday, Mar. 29, 2018. less Sen. John Barrasso, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Sen. Mike Enzi talk to the press after a tour of the Black Thunder Coal Mine outside of Wright, Wyo., Thursday, Mar. 29, 2018.

Will Black Workers Get in on the Expansion of Career and Technical Education?

Career and Technical Education is in the news. Years ago when I attended a National Urban League conference in Washington, D.C., a man in attendance gave me quite a bit of literature about CTE and how certain industries were looking for black students.

Poll: Trump and GOP never intended to strike a bipartisan tax deal

As Republicans rush their tax bill to the House and Senate floors for a final round of votes, a new poll shows that Americans do not believe that the GOP, in crafting the controversial legislation, reached out in good faith to Democrats. Only 27% say Republicans and President Trump sought meaningful input from their partisan opponents on Capitol Hill, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Dear Congress: Fix DACA

Wyoming's congressional delegation should work to find a bipartisan solution to the rift over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, using the legislation as a starting point for immigration reform. In its five years DACA has served roughly 800,000 young Latino adults, most of them brought to the U.S. as children by their parents.

Wyoming congressmen oppose coal subsidy

Wyoming's congressional delegation wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to ignore a proposal for a $4.5 billion federal subsidy for eastern Appalachian coal. Proposed by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in early August, the subsidy would provide a $15 per ton subsidy for utilities that purchase Eastern rather than Western coal.

Obamacare repeal effort shows old program is wasteful

Is there anyone who can point to the "Affordable Care Act" and credibly claim it is accomplishing the goals set for it seven years ago? Insurers are pulling out of the exchanges, premiums and related costs are going up, not down, as supporters of the misnamed law claimed they would. Many people who like their doctors are not being allowed to keep their doctors.

Wyoming Residents Don Tutus to Show LGBT Support

Wyoming residents this weekend found a creative way to protest the anti-LGBT remarks made by one of their U.S. senators - holding tutu-wearing parties at bars and other venues. Sen. Mike Enzi infamously told students at a Wyoming high school recently that he knows a man who wears a tutu to bars and gets into fights because of it - and "he kind of asks for it."

Sen. Enzi on tutu anecdote: ‘I regret a poor choice of words’

Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming said Tuesday he regrets using "a poor choice of words" when he suggested to students last week that if a man wears a tutu in a bar and ends up getting bullied, then it's partly the man's fault because he "kind of asks for it." In an emailed statement to CNN, Enzi said he does not believe "that anyone should be bullied, intimidated or attacked because of their beliefs" and that his message "was intended specifically to be about promoting respect and tolerance toward each other."

GOP senator from Matthew Shepard’s state: A ‘guy who wears a tutu to the bar’ is ‘asking for it’

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... Here's what Wyoming's senior senator reportedly had to say about LGBTQ Americans in the state where Matthew Shepard was beaten, tortured, and left to die on a fence post two decades ago in one of the nation's most brutal anti-gay hate crimes: Sen. Mike Enzi told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer community - as long as you aren't too open about it.

Round-the-clock Senate sessions start with DeVos nomination

The Senate will be in session around the clock this week as Republicans aim to confirm more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks over Democratic opposition. Democrats intend to drag out the process as much as possible using all the time they can under the Senate's arcane rules.

‘Jesus Christ. Grizzly bears?’: Internet loses it as DeVos pushes …

Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Education had a particularly rough hearing on Tuesday, taking a battering from Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Sen. Bernie Sanders However, nothing quite caught the flavor of how poorly her hearing went than her response to Sen. Chis Murphy who asked her, "Do you think guns have any place in or around schools?" After saying the availability of guns should be "best left to locales and states to decide," Devos replied to further questioning on guns on campus by adding, "I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school he was talking about in Wyoming a I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies."