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The National Education Association is urging students and teachers to skip school Thursday to protest the presidency of Donald Trump at school. Promoting a "National Day of Action" on Thursday, the NEA said, "On Thursday, January 19, the day before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, thousands of students, parents, educators and community members from across the nation will hold rallies in front of school buildings to inclusively stand up for all students." The protests are being organized by the Alliance to Reclaim our Schools. On its...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — In grizzly country, comments by President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary that schools should have guns on campus to protect against the bears aren't a punch line. Betsy DeVos' remark Tuesday to a Senate committee that state and local officials should decide whether guns might have a place at schools caused a big stir in some parts of the country after mass shootings have claimed scores of innocent young lives. But in places such as Wyoming, the issue is more about safety than politics. Grizzlies a...
Next week, Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance will be forced to walk the plank in Annapolis defending the county's requests for more school construction funds from the state. It's part of the state's annual "begathon" that has gotten downright ugly and highly politicized. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/community-times/ph-ct-barry-rascovar-0118-20170118-story.html...
The mother of a Fresno special-education student who claims her daughter was given a bleach solution through her feeding tube is suing the school district for negligence and emotional distress. The Fresno Bee reported Tuesday that, according to court documents filed last week, a 10-year-old student at Addicott Elementary was administered bleach through her feeding tube in September, leading to permanent damage to her trachea, esophagus, stomach and lungs. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bleach-feeding-tube-201701...
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s top leaders seem on the brink of a deal to bring health insurance premium relief to as many as 120,000 Minnesotans. This doesn’t mean a deal will actually get done. More than once in recent months, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Gov. Mark Dayton and legislative leaders have been close to a compromise only for everything to fall apart. And despite signs of compromise, several major divisive issues remain. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4202532-minnesota-house-passes-300-million-health-insurance-premium-rel...
HIBBING, Minn. — A 54-year-old Hibbing man was killed after a Grand Rapids man apparently knocked on his door at random and stabbed him 15 times saying he did it because Jesus asked him to, according to charges filed Thursday. A criminal complaint identifies the victim of the early Tuesday morning homicide as Joel Dean Gangness. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4202525-northern-minn-man-charged-random-fatal-stabbing-saying-jesus-told-him-do-it...
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The district of Cannon Ball is asking all Dakota Access Pipeline protesters to leave the area and not set up a winter camp nearby. "All the individuals at all the camps in and around Cannon Ball need to leave the district," residents wrote in a 10-point resolution passed during an executive session of a district meeting Wednesday night. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4202534-cannon-ball-residents-ask-pipeline-protesters-leave...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality television star who upended American politics and energized voters angry with Washington, will be sworn in Friday as the 45th president of the United States, putting Republicans in control of the White House for the first time in eight years. "It all begins today!" Trump tweeted at daybreak, before heading to a morning church service with his family as light rain fell. "THE MOVEMENT CONTINUES - THE WORK BEGINS!" http://www.startribune.com/inauguration-day-trump-to-...
The Minnesota House has approved a $300 million health premium rebate plan that GOP lawmakers say they intend to refine and forward to DFL Gov. Mark Dayton within a week. The bill approved Thursday in the House would provide rebates for many of the approximately 123,000 Minnesotans who buy insurance on the individual market and do not qualify for subsidies to help with their surging premiums. It includes several other provisions Republicans said were meant to expand access to health care or make it more affordable, including coverage for...
As the Obama presidency came to an end this week and with it, Barack Obama’s tenure as the nation’s first black president, a group of Minnesotans reflected on his legacy and the power of his inspiration to African-Americans. He gave hope to people who needed it, they said, and fulfilled long-held dreams of a black man in the White House while serving as a steadfast role model http://www.startribune.com/for-many-president-obama-delivered-on-his-promise-of-hope/411282485/...
Minneapolis can move forward with plans to require companies to provide paid sick leave to employees, Hennepin County Judge Mel Dickstein ruled Thursday. But he issued a temporary injunction to block Minneapolis from forcing companies based outside the city to comply in their Minneapolis operations. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce had requested an injunction to halt enforcement of the sick leave mandate, arguing that it conflicted with and was pre-empted by state law, and was an example of local government overreach. Dickstein agreed only...
WASHINGTON – The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau sued Wayzata-based TCF Bank Thursday, alleging that the bank tricked customers into paying a $35 service fee to cover each overdraft on their accounts. The suit accuses TCF of pushing overdraft services even as new federal rules prohibited overdraft charges for certain debit-card and ATM transactions unless customers agreed to them. The 2010 rules required customers to specifically accept overdraft protection fees, a status called “opt in.” http://www.startribune.com/feds-s...
NEW YORK — Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins, is finally headed for a court date the United States sought for two decades while he made brazen prison escapes and spent years on the run in Mexico. Extradited Thursday to face U.S. drug trafficking and other charges, Mexico's most wanted man was expected to appear in a federal court in New York Friday, the same day Donald Trump, who has lashed out at Mexico, is inaugurated as president. http://www.startribune.com/mexican-drug-kingpin-el-...
A California jury has recommended the death penalty for a woman convicted of killing four people during a shooting at a tribal office in Alturas in 2014. On Jan. 5 a Placer County jury recommended capital punishment for Cherie Lash Rhoades, 47, after convicting Rhoades of first-degree murder and attempted murder Dec. 19, 2016. http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/death-penalty-recommended-for-tribal-shooter/article_724b29dd-338a-5d94-a878-d0a9c3d5b0bf.html...
During our Divided States follow-up, we hear from Trump supporter Linda Caudill, a retired Ohio businesswoman, and Bernie Sanders supporter Majerle Lister, a member of the Navajo Nation from Arizona. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We listened to a whole lot of voices from around the country during the presidential campaign. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Our Divided States series took us to swing states. And this week, we're calling some voters back. http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510533949/trump-inspires-woman-to-get-involved-navajo-nation-to-me...
SHIPROCK, N.M. (AP) — The father of an 11-year-old Navajo girl who was abducted and killed has sued the tribe for failing to have an emergency notification system that he claims would have saved his daughter’s life. The civil complaint filed last month by Ashlynne Mike’s father, Gary Mike, says the Navajo Nation had numerous opportunities to develop an alert system before Ashlynne was kidnapped near her bus stop in May and found dead a day later. An Amber Alert didn’t go out until the morning after her disappearance, leading to outcry that th...
On Dec. 22, the Washington State Supreme Court sided with King County in the city of Snoqualmie’s complaint against the county regarding the constitutionality of a bill that gave tax exemptions to tribal properties not on reservation land. In 2014, the Washington State legislature passed the Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1287 (ESHB 1287), which expanded the types of tribal property available for property tax exemption, including off-reservation land used for economic development. In exchange for the tax exemption, the property owners make a...
On Saturday, the Women’s March on Washington will kick off what opponents of the incoming administration hope will be a new era of demonstrations against the Republican agenda. But in some states, nonviolent demonstrating may soon carry increased legal risks — including punishing fines and significant prison terms — for people who participate in protests involving civil disobedience. Over the past few weeks, Republican legislators across the country have quietly introduced a number of proposals to criminalize and discourage peaceful prote...
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. The billionaire’s lawsuit, filed on December 30th, was the culmination of a three year effort by Zuckerberg to acquire a list of names of the people who also have rights to pieces of a 700 acre tract of land on the island of Kauai – for which Zuckerberg spent $100 million back in 2014. http://usuncut.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-suing-force-native-hawaiians-off-ancestral-land-...
WASHINGTON – Native American leaders from North Dakota and Minnesota have been appointed by President Obama to serve on a national commission aimed at improving lives of Native American children. Russ McDonald, president of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, and Anita Fineday, former chief judge for the White Earth Tribal Nation in Minnesota, were appointed to serve on the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children. http://www.jamestownsun.com/news/nation-and-world/4201935-president-appoin...
(NaturalNews) Native American medicine is something that many people hold in high regard. Their traditional techniques and natural remedies are truly something to marvel at. Every Native American tribe has its own unique approach. The Cherokee, a tribe indigenous to the Southeastern United States, believed that the “Creator” gave them the gift of being able to understand and preserve medicinal herbs. A number of different herbs and plants can be used as medicine, as they once were. Here are nine plants that the Cherokee tribe used to cure a v...
A public inquiry should be called to investigate how two women were wrongfully convicted of the same southern Alberta murder, says Sen. Kim Pate. Pate, the former head of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, said an inquiry should probe the actions of the Medicine Hat, Alta., police and the local Crown prosecutor who pushed the murder case against Connie Oakes, a Cree woman from Nekaneet First Nation, and Wendy Scott, a woman with an IQ of 50. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/01/17/senator-calls-for-inquiry-into-what-...
MOIESE – With the publishing of Thursday’s Federal Register, the fate of the National Bison Range veered down a new path. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice of its intent to prepare a comprehensive conservation plan for the wildlife refuge, accompanied by an environmental impact statement. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/new-twist-in-efforts-to-transfer-bison-range-to-indian/article_6f262d5e-111d-501b-96e3-833665cc3fe1.html...
