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The government shutdown is finally over, a more-than-monthlong display of political dysfunction that Sen. Tina Smith says should not affect federal money for tribal communities if it happens again. “Native communities are some of the hardest hit … jeopardizing the health and wellness of Native people in Minnesota and across the country,” Smith said in a news release on Friday. http://www.startribune.com/sen-tina-smith-seeks-federal-funding-assurance-for-tribes/504919562/...
Before President Donald Trump finished speaking from the Rose Garden, putting a temporary end to the five-week government shutdown, a running group text between several of his former aides lit up with complaints. Speaker Nancy "Pelosi ordered everything off the menu and left Trump hanging with the bill,” one Trump ally texted to the group. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/trump-government-shutdown-end-border-wall-1128564...
The Omaha World-Herald secured a victory Friday in its efforts to prevent the state from sealing the record of grand jury reviews of officer-involved deaths. The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office’s appeal requesting that such records be sealed while a case is pending. https://www.starherald.com/news/regional_statewide/high-court-rejects-state-s-efforts-to-seal-grand-jury/article_14691a7e-e700-5bf1-80f8-b2bc24e30c04.html...
The American Indian College Fund’s signature scholarship program, The Full Circle Scholarship, which supports Native American college students, is now accepting applications for 2019-2020 recipients. The American Indian College Fund donates millions of dollars to thousands of Native American students pursuing degrees in higher education each year. https://diverseeducation.com/article/137110/...
The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for frostbite to occur in minutes and hypothermia during the final days of January. The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day’s record of 36 below zero F from 1966. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/prolonged-life-threatening-cold-to-grip-midw...
A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for a fatal stabbing during an argument on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. The Billings Gazette reports Andrew Plentyhawk, of Crow Agency, was sentenced Thursday to 63 months for the June 15, 2017, death of 29-year-old Timothy Big Man. Plentyhawk previously pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/man-sentenced-for-fatal-stabbing-on-crow-indian-reservation...
The Massachusetts attorney general is targeting Purdue Pharma and eight members of the Sackler family who own the company, alleging in a lawsuit they are "personally responsible" for deceptively selling OxyContin. The attorney general, Maura Healey, sat down with "CBS This Morning." She alleges the Sackler family hired "hundreds of workers to carry out their wishes" – pushing doctors to get "more patients on opioids, at higher doses, for longer, than ever before" all while paying "themselves billions of dollars." https://www...
During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves. Knowledge of these interactions is based on New York Times reporting, documents submitted to Congress, and court records and accusations related to the special counsel investigating foreign interference in the election....
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, along with U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) introduced the Indian Programs Advance Appropriations Act (IPAAA) to protect essential federal and tribal programs from the detrimental impacts of b...
