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Month: December 2023

A small police department in Minnesota’s north woods offers free canoes to help recruit new officers

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press The police department in the small north woods Minnesota town of Ely faces the same challenges of recruiting and keeping officers as countless other law enforcement agencies across the country. So it’s offering a unique incentive: Ely will give free Kevlar canoes, worth $3,800, to the next officers it hires

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Retail group pulls back on claim organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of inventory loss

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Retail Federation has revised a report released in April that pulls back the claim that organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of overall industry shrink, which measures overall loss in inventory, including theft. The revision of the group’s organized retail crime report

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Quién es Sandra Pettovello, futura ministra de Capital Humano de Javier Milei

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Sandra Pettovello será la titular de un ministerio que creará Javier Milei: el superministerio de Capital Humano. La cartera, a partir de este 10 de diciembre, absorberá los anteriores ministerios de educación, trabajo y desarrollo social. El Gobierno entrante aún no ha tomando algunas definiciones, por ejemplo, si Capital Humano

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US touts new era of collaboration with Native American tribes to manage public lands and water

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal

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US touts new era of collaboration with Native American tribes to manage public lands and water

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal

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Who is Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel has called a ‘dead man walking’

By Ivana Kottasová and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces had surrounded the house of Yahya Sinwar, potentially closing in on the top Hamas official in Gaza – and the man most wanted by Israeli authorities. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sinwar was not in the house and was believed to be hiding underground in Gaza, but a

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Kremlin foe Navalny’s lawyers to remain in detention at least through mid-March, Russian court rules

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of three lawyers who once represented imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They were arrested in October on charges of participating in an extremist group, a case widely seen as a means to ramp up pressure on the politician.

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