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Year: 2024

What to know about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s banishment from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

By GRAHAM BREWER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer welcome on tribal lands, and its leaders referred to her rhetoric linking immigration and

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Tennessee man arrested after undercover FBI investigation reveals travel plans to the Southern border with weapons

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Tennessee man was arrested Monday after allegedly telling undercover FBI agents about his desire to travel to the US-Mexico border to “conduct acts of violence,” according to a criminal complaint. In March 2023, Paul Faye Sr. first talked with an undercover FBI agent on TikTok, and after exchanging direct

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Gov. Kotek, lawmakers react to stable quarterly update on state’s economy and revenues as Legislature meets

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new quarterly Oregon revenue outlook was released Wednesday morning, two days into the 35-day “short session” of the state Legislature, and the big picture provides a relatively stable outlook and prompted reactions from Gov. Tina Kotek and others. The Office of Economic Analysis issued its Economic and Revenue Forecast for

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Virginia Democrats are sending gun-control bills to a skeptical Gov. Youngkin

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dozens of pieces of gun-related legislation that advocates say will bolster public safety are winding their way through Virginia’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly. That includes a measure to halt the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles and pistols. The question hanging over all the bills is: Just how

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Researchers reveal first full passages decoded from famously inscrutable Herculaneum scrolls

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ancient text, giving insight into philosophy from almost 2,000 years ago. The Herculaneum scrolls are hundreds of papyri that survived

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