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CHEYENNE — Crow Creek, which runs through downtown Cheyenne, is designated as an impaired body of water by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, largely due to unnatural pollutants that find their way into the water system.

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CHEYENNE — Crow Creek, which runs through downtown Cheyenne, is designated as an impaired body of water by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, largely due to unnatural pollutants that find their way into the water system.

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President Joe Biden is rejecting calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” on college campuses across the country. Biden on Thursday defended the right to free speech and said he opposes sending in the National Guard even as he called for order. His comments broke days of silence as police crack down on encampments erected to show solidarity with Palestinians. Republicans have tried to turn scenes of campus unrest into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. Ex-President Donald Trump has criticized Biden for not speaking out more. The campus protesters want the U.S. to cut off support for Israel.

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A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration. The lawmakers say they're concerned about travelers’ privacy and civil liberties. In a letter Thursday, 14 lawmakers are calling on Senate leaders to use the upcoming reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration to limit use of the technology so Congress can put in place some oversight. TSA has been rolling out the technology at select airports in a pilot project. The agency says the system improves accuracy of identity verification without slowing passenger speeds at checkpoints. Passengers can opt out. The TSA says photos and IDs are deleted after the passenger goes through the checkpoint.

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A Georgia business owner who repeatedly attacked law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him into the mob of Donald Trump supporters on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted he had “fed" the officer to the crowd. The 33-year-old Whitton expressed remorse for his actions on Jan. 6 before a judge sentenced him on Thursday to four years and nine months in prison. Whitton will get credit for the three years he's been jailed since his arrest.

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