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WASHINGTON — Americans narrowly favor allowing same-sex couples in their states to marry legally, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds. But that support comes with caveats, and there is a close division in the country over the upcoming Supreme Court case that could make gay marriage legal nationwide....
Hackers have stolen personal information from tens of millions of people with Anthem health insurance. The nation's second-largest health insurer, formerly known as WellPoint, said hackers stole Social Security numbers, names, birthdates, email addresses, employment details, incomes and street addresses of people who are currently covered or had coverage in the past....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the bodies exhumed from dozens of old graves at a shuttered Florida reform school continue to yield grudging answers to stubborn mysteries, researchers investigating the cases this week released a report on what they know so far....
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says it's OK to spank your children to discipline them - as long as their dignity is maintained....
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world. "No god condones terror," he said....
More than 300 school districts and charter schools across the state — mostly small, rural ones — lack the funding to pay for the teacher evaluations that are used to determine merit pay and required under a 2011 teacher evaluation law....
From the weighty to the trivial, and the mundane to the arcane, some new laws take effect Jan. 1. Here is a quick review of a few new laws, rounded up by the state House Information Service. Second chance Criminologists such as Carnegie Mellon University’s Alfred Blumstein point out that millions of Americans continue to feel the effects of youthful legal indiscretions many years later, with arrest records keeping them from getting jobs or housing. According to an article in the journal Pediatrics, 30 percent of Americans will have been...
The American Indian Movement held a peaceful protest outside the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Wednesday to raise awareness of several racially motivated incidents that have occurred there recently. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/05/we-just-want-be-treated-equal-aim-protests-racism-civic-center-159040...
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have officially launched a public campaign “waging a war” on methamphetamine in an attempt to end meth use by tribal members. C&A Gov. Eddie Hamilton, members of local and federal law enforcement agencies, students, elected leaders and community members met last week at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Community Center in Concho to answer the call from tribal and community leaders to “face the enemy head-on....
When Eloise Cobell sued the federal government for violating the trust of their wards, the American Indians, it was for individual violations not for collective violations....
The Department of Justice granted American Indian tribes the autonomy to grow and sell marijuana on their own lands in 2014. Many tribes exhibited caution because of chronic drug and alcohol abuse, but over 100 tribes have now shown interest in pursuing manufacturing operations in order to gain financial independence....
Marijuana has been legalized for either medicinal or recreational use in 23 states and Washington, D.C. The United States Department of Justice recently released a memo saying it would treat American Indian tribes the same way it treats states that have legalized pot....
A potential new economic development opportunity – growing and selling marijuana – is being studied by officials of Native American nations in Arizona. That comes after the U.S. Justice Department said it would treat such activity the same as it treats states that have legalized pot....
Eight protesters charged with defiant trespass for blocking a gas pipeline exploratory drilling crew on PPL property each pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser charge of summary trespass. Each was fined $100....
The B.C. Conservation Service executed search warrants at the Mount Polley mine and the Vancouver offices of its owner Imperial Metals Tuesday night, in relation to the spill of 25 million cubic metres of waste from the mine's tailings pond last August....
The True Sioux Hope Foundation, founded by Twila True, Oglala Sioux, and her husband, Alan, is on a mission to bring awareness to the plight on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota —the second largest Native American reservation in the United States, and also the poorest. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/05/powerful-video-documents-third-world-living-conditions-pine-ridge-reservation-159043...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two years after the Onondaga Nation started making and selling its own cigarettes to avoid state and federal taxes, it has shut down its manufacturing plant....
As a history buff I’ve long had an interest in and awareness of numbers. In fact, my wife has a running quiz with me when we arrive at a cash register and the total for our purchase comes up on the screen: “OK, what happened then?...
Margaret Leishman, whose son Philip has been missing since July 2004, is calling for more attention to be given to cases of missing aboriginal men, in addition to those of aboriginal women....
An alleged hate crime against a group of Native American students at a hockey game in Rapid City, South Dakota, last month has raised racial tensions between local Native Americans and non-Natives, sparking a series of reported assaults against Native community members and a firestorm on social media....
Internal federal documents estimate it will cost $165 million to replace government-issued slop pails with modern indoor plumbing on four of Canada's poorest reserves, but only a fraction of that has been budgeted....
The Blood Tribe in southern Alberta is trying to encourage more residents to take up farming. The reserve encompasses about 142,000 hectares — 81,000 of it cultivated land....
HELENA (AP) – The words “half-breed” and “breed” are offensive, and it’s the government’s duty to remove them from the names of creeks and other places in Montana, a state lawmaker says....
The Messenger gets front-seat view of both the night and day shift riding along with Mille Lacs Band Tribal Police Department (TPD). The differences are, well, as different as night and day. Mille Lacs Band Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin gave kudos at the recent State of the Band address to the men and women of the tribal police department. She said for the first time that she could recall violent crime on the reservation is showing a decrease. She gives credit to the new attitude and direction of the new police chief Jared Rosati. Rosati...
WASHINGTON — Like many U.S. military veterans, American Indian and Alaska Natives struggle with homelessness and a lack of support services following their time in the military — especially if they were hoping to settle down on tribal lands....