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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary. DeVos’s hearing, originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday morning, has been rescheduled for Jan. 17 at 5 p.m., according to a joint statement from the HELP committee chairman, Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and ranking member, Patty Murray, D-Wash. http://www.startribune.com/senate-postpones-confirmation-hearing-for-devos-trump-s-education-pick...
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump appointed his influential son-in-law Jared Kushner as a White House senior adviser Monday, putting the young real estate executive in position to exert broad sway over both domestic and foreign policy, particularly Middle East issues and trade negotiations. Trump has come to rely heavily on Kushner, who is married to the president-elect's daughter Ivanka. Since the election, the political novice has been one of the transition team's main liaisons to foreign governments, communicating with Israeli o...
Federal regulators said Monday that scores of pacemakers and implantable heart defibrillators made by St. Jude Medical are vulnerable to computer hacking, but a security patch is ready to address the problem. On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a public safety notice confirming it is possible for a hacker to remotely compromise security in St. Jude's wireless communication network and then secretly change commands in a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator while it's still wired to a patient's heart....
BELGRADE, Serbia — Heavy snow and frigid temperatures have gripped large parts of Europe, leading to dozens of deaths, freezing rivers, the grounding of planes and traffic accidents: ALBANIA Frigid weather has caused at least four deaths in the last three days In Albania. Snow stopped falling on Monday, but freezing temperatures continue to engulf the whole country. http://www.startribune.com/emergency-measures-in-parts-of-serbia-to-battle-snow-cold/410085005/...
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Hurricane-force winds in the mountaintops and torrential rainfall in the valleys caused havoc in northern California on Monday, flooding roadways and stranding drivers on major highways after mudslides. The extreme weather pummeling the Sierra Nevada is the result of a meteorological phenomenon known as the "Pineapple Express," which ushers an atmospheric river of moisture-rich warm air north from the tropical waters of Hawaii. The powerful storm has blasted Lake Tahoe and the Yosemite Valley with several feet of snow and d...
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will challenge President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, when he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee over his hard-line stand on immigration, past record on civil rights and whether he supports community policing. The Alabama lawmaker is known as one of the most staunchly conservative members of the Senate, and has already drawn opposition from at least two Democrats, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. http://www.startribune.com...
More federal charges have been filed against a pipeline protester accused of shooting toward law enforcement officers in October. Red Fawn Fallis, 37, of Colorado, allegedly fired a gun while being arrested during a police raid of the northern "front line" Dakota Access Pipeline camp Oct. 27. An indictment filed Jan. 5 charges her with felony counts of civil disorder and discharging a firearm in relation to a felony crime of violence -- which, in this case, is civil disorder. These charges are in addition to an earlier charge of possession of...
A lawsuit that originally pitted the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for improperly authorizing the Dakota Access Pipeline, now has both parties on the same side: They both are refuting the pipeline’s claim that it has all the necessary permission to bore under the Missouri River/Lake Oahe near the tribe’s reservation boundary. The tribe and the corps filed briefs Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asking the judge to dismiss the pipeline’s suit against the corps, in which Dakota Access claim...
Washington - The incoming Republican-controlled Senate has named John Hoeven, a staunch proponent of the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, as the new chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and look forward to working... to pass legislation that helps improve the lives of people across Indian Country," the former North Dakota governor and the state's current senior US senator said in a statement. "We will address the issues of job creation, n...
The Hopi tribe has ordered the administrator of Hopi Mission School to leave the reservation, and as far as the tribal council is aware, he has done so. The private kindergarten-to-eighth-grade school in Kykotsmovi, Ariz., is a Native American ministry with decades of Mennonite history and influence. HMS is a member of Mennonite Education Agency’s Mennonite Schools Council. http://mennoworld.org/2017/01/09/news/hopi-school-administrator-expelled-from-reservation/...
Family members said Monday they were disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving their former foster daughter, a girl with Native American ancestry who was ordered removed from their Santa Clarita home and reunited with relatives in Utah. Rusty and Summer Page said in a statement that the high court's decision was a “crushing blow.” Lexi, who is part Choctaw, was 6 years old when she was taken from her foster home in a tearful parting in March. She was placed with extended family in Utah under a dec...
BARAGA — Welcoming new members, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Tribal Council re-elected officers and gave President Chris Swartz a raise at its meeting Saturday. After congratulating Michael LaFernier on his re-election, the council swore him in along with the new members voted in last month: Rodney Loonsfoot, Elizabeth “Popcorn” Mayo and Gary Loonsfoot Jr., who took his dad’s chair. Neither Gary Loonsfoot Sr., nor Eddy Edwards sought re-election. Donald Shalifoe did not get enough votes to retain his seat. Edwards and Shalifoe were ab...
Charges have been filed against a Sioux Falls man in connection to the death of a woman in her apartment Jan. 1. Joshua Rayvan LeClaire was charged with one count each of first- and second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree manslaughter, false impersonation and possession of marijuana, Sioux Falls Police Capt. Blaine Larson said Monday. His bond is set at $2 million. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/09/man-charged-death-sioux-falls-woman-bond-set/96357558/...
A transgender woman from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is the second transgender murder of 2017 from an apparent homicide. According to KSFY, Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow was found in her apparent dead on Friday (Jan. 6). A neighbor called the police after they smelled a strong order from her apartment in Sioux Falls. Wounded Arrow was a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and a proud member of the Sioux Falls Two-Spirit and Allies organization. The term “two-spirit” came to fruition in the 1990’s by Native American gay/lesbian advoc...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 540 tons of metals — mostly iron and aluminum — contaminated the Animas River over nine hours during a massive wastewater spill from an abandoned Colorado gold mine, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday in a new report on the 2015 blowout that turned rivers in three states a sickly yellow. The total amount of metals entering the river system was comparable to levels during one or two days of high spring runoff, although the concentration of metals was significantly higher at the spill's peak, the repor...
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The Narragansett Indian Tribe is unable to pay its 75 full-time employees this week, according to a letter sent to Eyewitness News by Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas. The letter, dated Jan. 6, is addressed to “Creditors of Our Tribal Employees.” It says the tribe has been “temporarily unable to to access certain Tribal bank accounts used to meet weekly payroll obligations” for the current pay period. http://wpri.com/2017/01/09/narragansett-indian-tribe-unable-to-make-payroll/...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged a Kansas man and his companies with selling portfolios of fake payday loan debts that debt collectors used to get people to pay on debts they did not owe. The operation has been shut down pending litigation. The group allegedly sold lists of supposedly made by a phony lender, “Castle Peak,” or by an online loan provider known as “500FastCash.” The listings had the social security and bank account numbers of people who supposedly owed money. Debt buyers and collection agencies subsequently used th...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Supporters of a bill that requires random drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients will try again to get it through the South Dakota Legislature. Bill co-sponsor Liz May of Kyle recalls the case of two young girls discovered severely malnourished last November on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. http://kelo.com/news/articles/2017/jan/09/second-call-for-drug-testing-assistance-families/...
The Tulalip Tribes’ challenge of the state and county’s taxation of business conducted on its lands is scheduled for a 10-day trial beginning June 5, 2017 in U.S. District Court. Washington State, Snohomish County, and Tulalip Tribes failed on October 24 to resolve a dispute over the state and county’s contention they have the authority to tax business transactions in the Tulalip Tribes’ incorporated community of Quil Ceda Village, located on the reservation, and so the case is headed to trial. “The parties are not in agreement that further s...
A legal claim of neglect against the Nisqually Jail staff in connection with the sudden death of a 19-year-old inmate could have a widespread impact on jail bookings in Thurston County, according to the attorney representing the inmate’s family. Andrew J. Westling died in his cell April 12, about 24 hours after his arrest for causing a disturbance at a Yelm service station. Westling suffered from a heart condition and had notified jail staff about it, but he didn’t receive proper medical attention, according to a Lacey police inv...
FBI agents confirmed late Monday they discovered the bodies of two children on the Santa Ana Pueblo, in addition to the body of an adult woman, but it remains uncertain if the investigation is connected to the disappearance of two adult sisters and three children. Vanessa George, her sister Leticia, and their children were last seen Thursday on the Santa Ana Pueblo. FBI activity intensified on the pueblo Monday regarding a homicide investigation, but the FBI has not said whether the two cases are related. http://www.kob.com/...
MT. PLEASANT (WJRT) - (01/09/17) - A 22-year old Mount Pleasant man was sentenced to 20-years in prison for the rape of a 13-year old girl on the Isabella Indian Reservation. MLive reports that Jake Detzler raped the girl in January of 2015. Federal prosecutors say Detzler is a repeat and dangerous sex offender, because he had previously raped a different 15-year old girl multiple times against her wishes. Following his release from prison, he will be supervised for 5-years. http://www.abc12.com/content/news/Mt-Pleasant-man-...
