Native Americans look to future amid grim coronavirus numbers

A programme in the Utah Navajo Nation hopes to provide sustainable aid to elders as tribes worry virus could spread.


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Trump's acting attorney general involved in firm that scammed veterans out of life savings

• Matthew Whitaker was paid advisory board member for WPM
• Veteran: ‘I spent the money on a dream. I lost everything’

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Trump's delay of calorie-posting rule jolts restaurants
Trump’s Food and Drug Administration delayed the rule just four days before it was supposed to go into effect this month.President Donald Trump’s push to reduce the government burden on business is instead causing chaos in the food industry after he suddenly yanked a rule requiring calories to ( Read more... )

Ever since Chelsea Manning was revealed as the whistleblower responsible for one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism has been manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience, someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover the dark reality not only of that war ( Read more... )

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Cristiano Ronaldo makes donation, tells Syrian children: Don't lose hope

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has expressed his anguish over the plight of children in war-shattered Syria and made a donation to help fund emergency supplies in Aleppo.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s team is struggling so hard to book A-list performers for his inaugural festivities that it offered ambassadorships to at least two talent bookers if they could deliver marquee names, the bookers told TheWrap.The bookers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they were approached by members of Trump’s ( Read more... )

On July 27, Donald Trump created one of the most surreal moments of the presidential campaign, when he encouraged Russians to hack his opponent's email ( Read more... )

BREAKING: #Tulsa DA files 1st degree manslaughter charges #BettyShelby for #TerenceCruther shooting. pic.twitter.com/h4PC6EBWwm
- Tiffany Alaniz (@TiffanyAlaniz) September 22, 2016

A local prosecutor in Tulsa, Oklahoma has brought charges against Betty Shelby, the officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher ( Read more... )

Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Drumpf’s biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model ( Read more... )