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People who care for the sick or elderly in their homes are eligible for unemployment benefits when the job ends — even if that patient was a family member, a Minnesota court ruled Monday....
WASHINGTON – Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton left a White House meeting with President Obama on Monday saying it “doesn’t look at all promising” that Congress would act this week to stop a massive round of federal budget cuts known as “sequestration....
DUBLIN - So hungry you could eat a horse? Chances are, if you've regularly consumed processed-meat products in Europe, you already have....
Pour on the olive oil, preferably over fish and vegetables: One of the longest and most scientific tests of a Mediterranean diet suggests this style of eating can cut the chance of suffering heart-related problems, especially strokes, in older people at high risk of them....
WASHINGTON – About $42.8 million has been paid out to Native Americans in Arizona since December, and another $109 million could be distributed starting next month as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement of a lawsuit against the government. Read more: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/02/25/millions-paid-millions-still-at-stake-as-deadline-looms-for-tribal-class-action-settlement/#ixzz2M0fgwAr2...
The sequester begins in four days and Congress is set on a do nothing course....
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused a Texas federal prosecutor Monday of tapping into a “deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice” in his questioning of a black man facing a drug charge....
Once again, House Republicans are in a predicament on the Violence Against Women Act. The legislation, aimed at combating domestic abuse, is political dynamite with women voters, and for that reason GOP leaders desperately want the issue off the table. But they can’t figure out how to make that happen now any more than they could last year, during an election....
After passage by the Senate earlier this month, the Violence Against Women Act is due for action in the House, possibly this week. The reauthorization of the bill would be a first step in addressing the often-overlooked problem of violence against women on tribal reservations. Because of complications in the tribal justice system, many assault cases on tribal lands get overlooked or bounced around between tribal law enforcement, state police and the federal government. From The Washington Post:...
Systematic under-funding of child-welfare services on reserves means First Nations children today are essentially re-living the residential school nightmare that brought Canada so much shame, says the national chief of the country's largest aboriginal group....
The federal government’s refusal to provide equitable child welfare on reserves is forcing thousands of youth into foster care and ripping families apart in ways that echo the notorious residential-school system of previous decades, says the head of the organization that represents Canada’s first nations....
LEWISTON, Idaho — A Nez Perce tribal police officer is charged with voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the November 2011 shooting death of a man after a highway chase in northern Idaho. Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/02/25/2466159/nez-perce-tribal-officer-charged.html#storylink=cpy...
Manitoba has nearly twice the national rate of cases of violence against women, according to a report released today from Statistics Canada....
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – For more than 100 years, the Murrow Indian Children’s Home has provided a safe, home environment for Native American children who come from tribes located in Oklahoma....
The Quinault Indian Nation is suing four neighboring school districts for racial discrimination, stemming from a decision made earlier in the year by those districts to dissolve a high school athletic conference....
FARMINGTON – A Navajo member of the United States Marine Corps has died in the war in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Jonathan D. Davis, of Kayenta, Ariz., died Friday, Feb. 22 in the Helmand province during combat, according to a Navajo Nation press release Monday. Davis was assigned to the Headquarters Battalion, 32nd Georgian Liaison Team, Regimental Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif, the release said....
Despite the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife shooting of seven wolves last summer because they were killing cattle, the state’s population is burgeoning, a new survey shows....
WASHINGTON — The day after a frigid, star-salted night spent tromping through the Alexandria woods with David Johnson of the Global Owl Project, and listening to the stridently mournful cries of wild barred owls that remained hidden from view, I stopped by the National Zoo around sunset to take visual measure of the birds I had heard....