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WASHINGTON — The IRS' overloaded phone system hung up on more than 8 million taxpayers this filing season as the agency cut millions of dollars from taxpayer services to help pay to enforce President Barack Obama's health law. For those who weren't disconnected, only 40 percent actually got through to a person. And many of those people had to wait on hold for more than 30 minutes, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Wednesday. The number of disconnected callers spiked just as taxpayers were being hit with new requirements under the health l...
WASHINGTON – When Rep. Keith Ellison closes his eyes at night, he worries about the Somali-American kids at the “tipping point.” They are the ones so disaffected with life in the U.S. that they find comfort in amateur, dark, online recruiting videos from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, referred to as ISIL or ISIS. The ones, Ellison says, who think they would have a better life and a better chance at influencing U.S. foreign policy by fighting there than voting here. Those, he said, who think ISIL leaders actually care about them....
Hoping to stem retaliatory shootings this summer, the Minneapolis police department is launching a new unit solely focused on gang-related crime. Chief Janeé Harteau announced the change Wednesday during a City Council briefing about summer crime strategies. Details were sparse Wednesday, but she said the unit would consist of five officers and one sergeant. "When we have an incident that occurs, we will have a team of people that can go out and understand who is shooting at who," Harteau said in an interview. "And our goal is to prevent the...
For federal prosecutors, Sean Meadows is the poster child of investment advisers gone bad and the reason to step up investigations in this area. In the Meadows case, the U.S. attorney’s office is seeking a hefty 30-year prison sentence for his role in a seven-year, $10 million fraud in which he took client funds to support an opulent lifestyle that included gambling junkets to Las Vegas. “Meadows utterly devastated his victims,” the government said in a memo supporting its 30-year recommendation. “The defendant knew their vulnera...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy lays out for the first time publicly that the U.S. military plans to use cyberwarfare as an option in conflicts with enemies. The 33-page strategy says the Defense Department "should be able to use cyber operations to disrupt an adversary's command and control networks, military-related critical infrastructure and weapons capabilities." The cybersecurity strategy is the second done by the Pentagon and is slated for release Thursday, but it was obtained early by The Associated P...
WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to help the victims of human trafficking, ending a tortuous partisan standoff over abortion that also delayed confirmation of President Barack Obama's attorney general nominee. The vote was 99-0 to approve the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which expands law enforcement tools to target sex traffickers and creates a new fund to help victims. The House has passed similar legislation and the White House has voiced support. "We have not fallen deaf to the cries of those w...
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama's health care law has had a surprising side effect: In some states, it appears to be enticing more Americans to apply for food stamps, even as the economy improves. New, streamlined application systems built for the health care overhaul are making it easier for people to enroll in government benefit programs, including insurance coverage and food stamps. In most affected states, the enrollment increases were not huge, ranging from 1 percent to 6 percent over two years, according to an Associated Press a...
In December, the Justice Department released a memo giving Native American tribes the green light to grow and sell marijuana on their lands, provided they follow the same conditions the department has placed on states where weed is now legal. The memo sparked interest among some of the 556 Indian tribes recognized by the US government, and several are now exploring the possibility of allowing marijuana businesses to operate on their lands. "A lot of the tribes are in the discovery phase right now," said Allyson Doctor, one of the founders of...
KFYR-TV The Fort Berthold Reservation provides one third of the North Dakota's oil production. The tribal chairman says changing the oil tax formula is bad news. "The proposed reduction that North Dakota has passed on the houseside is too dramatic," said Mark Fox, tribal chairman of the MHA Nation. "It's too much of a decrease and the losses we would face would be too dramatic." http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/Three-Affiliated-Tribes-Chairman-Opposes-Proposed-North-Dakota-Oil-Tax-Bill-300911361.html...
WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. — Shiprock resident Russell Begaye and Shonto resident Jonathan Nez claimed the title of president and vice president during Tuesday's Navajo Nation special election. The unofficial results show Begaye and Nez received 25,745 votes, while Joe Shirley Jr. and his running mate, Dineh Benally, received 15,439 votes. Begaye and Nez led throughout the evening, and cheers greeted the two men when they walked into the Window Rock Sports Center Tuesday night. They were surrounded by supporters who waved campaign signs and earlier i...
There’s a new residence for some of Edmonton’s homeless people with a controversial treatment method. Ambrose Place tries to help clients with addictions by limiting, not restricting, alcohol on the premises. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/22/edmonton-centre-offers-homeless-alcohol-hoping-get-stop/...
If you’re a member of a federally recognized tribe or a “direct descendant” of one, you qualify for free tuition at the University of Minnesota-Morris, one of two schools in the country with such a provision for American Indians. That’s proving problematic for the school, whose tuition-free tribal population has doubled in the past decade to more than 17 percent and is “expected to grow,” Minnesota Daily reports: “It’s unusual for families to be able to find a college where Native culture is reflected as much,” said Sandy Olson-Loy, Morris...
A Congressional hearing that documented dilapidated and unsafe conditions in federally funded schools for Native American students didn't come any closer to solving how the federal government can direct existing funding or increase funding to improve the deplorable facilities, an issue that has been plaguing Indian Country for decades. "Some classrooms lack desks, books, computers, pencils, and paper, while others lack proper flooring, roofing, and ventilation," said Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., who chaired Tuesday's House education subcommittee...
When I was confirmed in the Catholic Church, I took on a saint name. I chose Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, a Mexican Indian who was instructed by the Virgin Mary to pick flowers and carry them in his cloak. He obeyed, and when he released the flowers, the cloak miraculously bore the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico’s most recognizable religious icon. This is the story of Mexico, the story of how an Aztec temple was broken down stone by stone and rebuilt into a basilica, the story of why my abuelita prays the rosary every morning w...
Calling Buffy Sainte-Marie just a folksinger is like saying Herbie Hancock is a piano player. The Piapot Cree First Nation bandmember born in Qu’Appelle Valley, Sask., is indeed a folksinging legend. She is also an educator, pioneering computer music composer, lifelong activist, an Academy Award, Golden Globe and JUNO award-winner and an officer of the Order of Canada. The 74-year-old is on a world tour in support of her 18th album, the explosive Power In The Blood. http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Buffy+Sainte+Marie...
The youngest and oldest people in the remote northern Ontario community of Kashechewan will be moved out of the area starting today amid concerns about flooding. An evacuation was initially planned for next Monday, but officials have decided to start the effort earlier because of concerns about damage to a dike. Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus said Wednesday that aerial observers have reported a great deal of ice, "so there is a lot of concern that this could be a very big flooding year." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sud...
BILLINGS (AP) – Police are investigating whether a man whose body was found on the Crow Indian Reservation last week may have been killed in a Billings apartment. Billings police, the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are investigating the death of the unidentified man. Police Lt. Jeremy House says the man's body was found on April 15 in a remote part of the reservation. The investigation indicated the man could have been killed in Billings, leading to a police investigation that began on Tuesday afternoon. http://www.gre...
Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry have admitted they murdered Halifax student Loretta Saunders in 2014. On Wednesday in Supreme Court in Halifax, Leggette, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and Henneberry, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The pair will return to court on April 28 to be sentenced. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. Second-degree murder carries a life sentence and no parole eligibility of between 10 and 25 years. http://ww...
