Colorado[1] has one of the highest suicide rates[2] in the nation, at 20.9 per 100,000[3] in 2023. Of the state’s 940 gun deaths that year, nearly 72% were by suicide[4].

Nationally, firearms are the leading cause of death[5] for American youth ages 1 to 17. More than 1 in 4 youth firearm deaths nationwide are due to suicide, with a parent’s firearm[6] most often the weapon used.

Firearm-related injuries and suicide...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization[1], is mired in a crisis[2] that not only threatens Americans’ health but also its very survival as a leading public health institution.

The degree of this crisis was on full display during Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Sept. 4, 2025, testimony before...

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