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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on Sunday issued new guidance for the use of cholesterol-busting statin drugs. The report greatly expands the universe of people who should be screened to see if they need the medication to everyone over age 40 regardless of whether they have a history of cardiovascular disease. The recommendations also support the position of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, which in 2013 radically shifted their advice from suggesting that doctors focus on the level of a patient’s...
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump appeared to soften some of his hardest-line campaign positions on immigration on Sunday, but he also restated his pledge to roll back abortion rights and used Twitter to lash out at his critics, leaving open the possibility that he would continue using social media in the Oval Office and radically change the way presidents speak to Americans. In his first prime-time television interview since his upset victory Tuesday, Trump repeated his promise to name a Supreme Court justice who opposed abortion...
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., picked up another high-profile supporter on Sunday in his expected bid to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee: outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid. “My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done,” Reid said in a statement. “Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith.” Ellison is a favorite among liberal groups and lawmakers, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders....
Chitchat in the “aw, cute” realm distracted one grandmother long enough to make her one of several women who have been targeted by a group of bandits in Roseville, police said. Police say they are anxious to learn who these thieves are and to catch them. With the past month or so, police said, their department has detected a spike in purse and wallet thefts in the afternoon in restaurants and coffee shops. http://www.startribune.com/thieves-targeting-women-s-purses-hung-on-chairs-in-roseville-dining-spots/401007335/...
More than 500 people gathered in Minneapolis' Loring Park on Sunday to chat and enjoy free Somali food as part of Sambusa Sunday, an event organized by the Coalition of Somali American Leaders to thank Minnesotans for their support in the days since the election of Donald Trump as president, which has been frightening for many Somali-Americans. "We wanted to extend … our appreciation to the average Minnesotan who reinforced the oneness of Minnesota," said Hamse Warfa, who helped launch the group. "We organized this event because of what...
Phil Grodnick, who started in the investment industry in 1958, won’t say who he voted for for president, partly because he’s got clients of all political stripes at his Minneapolis Portfolio Management Group. Grodnick, 79, a patient, value-oriented investor whose composite stock portfolio has outperformed the S&P 500 benchmark index over the last 20 years, will say he’s glad stock investors, so far, look positively at President-elect Donald Trump. “The market is responding to what will be the Trump policies that he articulated as best...
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump made his first two key personnel appointments on Sunday, one an overture to Republican circles by naming GOP chief Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, the other a shot across the bow of the Washington establishment by tabbing Breitbart news executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor. The two men had made up the president-elect's chief of staff shortlist, and while Priebus received that job, Bannon's post also is expected to wield significant clout. The media...
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — In this chronically struggling city along the Hudson River, residents beset by poverty, high crime and boarded-up homes now have an entirely new worry — that their tap water may have exposed them to a chemical linked to cancer. State officials recently launched an ambitious effort to offer blood tests to Newburgh's 28,000 residents after the chemical PFOS — used for years in firefighting foam at the nearby military air base — was found in the city's drinking water reservoir at levels exceeding federal guidelines. "The...
Kellyanne Conway said it’s the responsibility of Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders to calm anti-Trump protesters. President-elect Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said that Trump is “there for them,” adding, “He is going to be a president that listens and takes the counsel of many different people, including those from the other side of the aisle,” she said during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s time really for President Obama and Secretary Clinton to say to...
Several Dakota pipeline protesters were injured Saturday after they were run over by a construction truck as the driver drove through their gathering, firing gunshots into the air near the construction site of the pipeline according to videos and photos posted online, which prompted the local police to investigate the incident Sunday. Protesters against the oil pipeline near sacred tribal lands briefly blocked two entrances to a work yard near the rural town of Mandan early Saturday, causing workers to leave the area. Videos and pictures...
Nov 13 (Reuters) - North Dakota authorities are investigating a weekend incident in which pipeline protesters said a woman was struck by a man driving a truck who drove over her feet and fired shots into the air. The Morton County Sheriff's Department is looking into what occurred, spokesman Rob Keller said in an email on Sunday, declining to comment further because the investigation is ongoing. Early on Saturday, protesters against the oil pipeline near sacred tribal lands briefly blocked two entrances to a work yard near the rural town of...
Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline briefly blocked two entrances to a pipeline work yard in a rural North Dakota town early on Saturday morning, causing workers to leave the area, police said. Morton County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Rob Keller said law enforcement received a call at around 9 a.m. (CST) telling them a caravan of between 130 and 150 cars, each carrying three to four people, left the protest camps and headed north to the city of Mandan where equipment is located. “They went west for a few miles (from...
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Authorities in North Dakota are investigating a report of multiple shots fired during a weekend protest against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Morton County sheriff's spokesman Rob Keller on Sunday said the report of shots fired was received Saturday morning, when about 500 people were demonstrating outside a work yard for the pipeline in Mandan, a community adjacent to the state capital of Bismarck and about 50 miles north from an area where hundreds of protesters have been camping in for months. No...
Less than 12 hours after Donald Trump walked onto a New York City stage as the newly elected president, the stock price for Energy Transfer Equity shot up 15 percent. Among that company’s holdings is Energy Transfer Partners, operator of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. Protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation continue to fight completion of the $3.8 billion project. But the jump in share price indicates an immediate pro-energy confidence in Trump. And that confidence is not unfounded. In Bismarck, North Dakota, Donald...
The Dakota Access pipeline, set to sprawl 1,172 miles over four states, finds itself embroiled in a counter-movement now spanning seven months. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other supporters first gathered in April after repeated requests to reroute the pipeline away from the unceded territories under the Treaty of Fort Laramie fell ignored. The protesters raised urgent concerns about possible water contamination as well as the desecration of sacred burial grounds. Today, protesters continue to gather at the nearby Oceti Sakowin...
Since April of this year, Native American tribes and sympathizers have been protesting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline over potential damage to their land and environmental safety. Thanks to the results of this past Tuesday’s election, that threat has never been greater. Perhaps that’s why the movement’s most vocal celebrity supporter, Neil Young, chose to spend his 71st birthday perform for the protesters. Young, whose recent song “Indian Givers” is about the pipeline, walked amongst the camps at the Standing Rock Reservation...
The Obama administration will issue a sooner-than-expected decision on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) before the levers of executive power shift to President-elect Donald Trump. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Friday that President Barack Obama is moving up his decision on a key easement allowing the pipeline’s developers to dig under Lake Oahe to complete the nearly $4 billion project. Obama momentarily stopped pipeline construction in September, arguing the government needed more time to determine the project’s...
CANNONBALL, N.D. — Amy Lewis was driving through South Dakota when she got the news. She switched on her car radio on election night to hear that Democrat Hillary Clinton was losing must-win states, that Donald Trump was about to become President-elect of the United States, and that Republicans would retain control of both houses of Congress. Lewis began to cry. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/11/13/pipeline-protesters-dig-trump-nears-oval-office/93755606/...
At least 300 people gathered at the state Capitol on an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon to show their support for law enforcement officers policing the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. "They're working to protect all of us, not just the farmers and the ranchers and the small town people that live in the area of the protest," said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., who spoke at the rally along with Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley. "They're protecting the protesters, too. They're protecting the very right to protest." "But the key...
About 270 river-miles downstream from the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp, a South Dakota Native American tribe is quietly fighting for $200 million in compensation over alleged water-rights violations. The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, which resides on a reservation on the eastern banks of the Missouri River in central South Dakota north of Chamberlain, is locked in a legal showdown with the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The tribe contends its reservation of land includes rights to Missouri River water that the...
Some American Indian tribes appear to have trouble managing government grants. American Indian governing authorities have been plagued with corruption for years. A 2013 Associated Press review of audits and investigative reports found that out of 551 tribal governments, 124 routinely had complaints filed against them. The Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General released several reports revealing fraud and abuse of federal funds within three American Indian tribes on Nov. 7, the day before the election. Read more:...
After hearing two weeks of testimony, a coroner's jury looking into the death of Felix Taqqaugaq released 25 recommendations, which include expanding mental health training for police officers and improving access to certified Inuktitut translators. Taqqaugaq, a 30-year-old Inuk man with schizophrenia, was shot by RCMP in his Igloolik home in 2012. The incident prompted a coroner's inquest, in which RCMP officers testified that the fatal shot came as Taqqaugaq charged at an officer with a knife. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
Gary Gishie lives his life one day at a time. The 31-year-old recovering alcoholic is one of the great success stories to come out of the Coconino County DUI/Drug Court and the Coconino County Detention Facility in Flagstaff's Exodus substance abuse rehabilitation program. Gishie is open, hard-working, well-spoken and likable. It is hard to picture him being arrested more than 20 times for low-level crimes he committed while intoxicated after he moved from the Navajo Nation onto the streets of Page and Flagstaff. http://azda...
This story is the first in a series on post-Election Day reactions from different groups in the UNM community. Shock, surprise, awe. A combination of those feelings, to varying degrees, was felt by most Americans last Tuesday, when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won Florida, then Pennsylvania, then Wisconsin. http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2016/11/14-indigenous-students-election-react...
More than 58,000 people call Otter Tail County their home. At one time, this area was in Ojibwe hands. Thirty-five years before Old Clitherall became the first non-Native American permanent settlement in Otter Tail County, an Ojibwe village at Otter Tail Lake was large and well established. The year was 1830. An expert on this subject who spoke Nov. 3 during the annual meeting of the Otter Tail County Historical Society is Anton Treuer, a professor at Bemidji State University. “We felt honored to hear the comments from Dr. Treuer, widely...