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PARIS — France's Bastille Day parade on Friday coupled traditional displays of military might with a look at wars past and present — and a nod to the U.S. role in both. French President Emmanuel Macron invited Donald Trump as the guest of honor for the celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I. The two men sat side by side with their wives, speaking animatedly as American and French warplanes roared above the Champs-Elysees. http://www.startribune.com/bastille-day-paris-security-tigh...
WASHINGTON — A Republican donor and operative from Chicago’s North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton’s missing e-mails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to the Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show. In a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, which includes a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a lif...
For 15 years, Vern Maetzold was a regular at Minneapolis’ Southwest Senior Center. It was a place close to home where he could eat lunch, take an exercise class or just spend time with his friends. “It’s been very significant for social support and providing some structure for my life,” he said. “I live alone in an apartment, and it’s been something I can count on to be there.” http://www.startribune.com/funding-cuts-squeeze-minneapolis-senior-centers/433684463/...
Target Corp.’s sales are on the rebound after falling for about a year. The Minneapolis-based retailer revised its second-quarter guidance on Thursday, saying that traffic and sales had improved in May and June. So the company is now expecting a “modest increase” in comparable sales in the May-to-July quarter, a reversal from the single-digit decline it initially projected. http://www.startribune.com/target-says-sales-are-up-after-a-year-long-slump/434247693/...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans and Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday that would provide the biggest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade, removing a 15-year time limit to tap into benefits and increasing money for thousands in the National Guard and Reserve. The bipartisan agreement is a sweeping effort to fill coverage gaps in the post-9/11 GI Bill amid a rapidly changing job market. Building on major legislation passed in 2008 that guaranteed a full-ride scholarship to any in-state public university — or a sim...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that proponents say will expand land rights for three southern Oregon Native American tribes. It now heads to the Senate for further consideration. http://theworldlink.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/us-house-passes-tribal-land-trust-bill/article_30db334b-6344-5f7d-929a-8bc1a4524033.html...
Thanks to a new court ruling, the Ute Tribe is finally hoping to secure some justice for the death of one of its young citizens. Todd Rory Murray was only 21 years old when he died in April 2007. He was shot in the head during an incident with non-Indian officers who pursued him onto tribal land even though they lacked authority to enforce laws on the reservation. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/07/12/ute-tribe-hails-decision-requiring-nonin.asp...
A group of Native American athletes, mostly from the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, is heading to Canada this week to compete in an athletic competition that draws the largest cultural gathering of indigenous people in North America. Team Colorado will be one of 19 teams throughout North America competing in Toronto, Canada. https://the-journal.com/articles/56470-southern-ute-ute-mountain-athletes-head-to-canada-to-compete-in-north-american-indigenous-games...
