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LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden told a gathering of tribal leaders in Washington last week that he intends to designate an area considered sacred by area Native Americans in southern Nevada as a new national monument. "When it comes to Spirit Mountain and the surrounding ridges and canyons, I'm committed to protecting this [...]
NEW YORK — The rate of deaths by firearms last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men, according to study published this week. The increase among women — most dramatically, in black women — is playing a tragic and under-recognized [...]
Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building's co-op board calling her Diwali decoration "offensive" and demanding she take it down. "My decoration said 'Happy Diwali' and had a swastika on it," said Deo, a physician, who was celebrating the Hindu festival of lights. The equilateral cross with its [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't look for plastic partitions or faraway benches when visiting Santa Claus this year. The jolly old elf is back, pre-pandemic style, and he's got some pressing issues on his mind. Santa booker HireSanta.com has logged a 30 percent increase in demand this Christmas season compared to last year, after losing [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — A group of 30 agencies that supply water to homes and businesses throughout the western United States has pledged to rip up lots of decorative grass to help keep water in the over-tapped Colorado River. The agreement signed earlier this month by water agencies in Southern California, Phoenix, Salt Lake City [...]
No, LeBron James does not want to be traded — that was put into the world by a fake Twitter feed purporting to belong to the Los Angeles Lakers superstar when a pay-$8-and-pretend-to-be-anyone verification system made a brief appearance. And no, actor Edward Norton is not all that worried about the possible demise of the [...]
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Descendants of bison that once roamed North America's Great Plains by the tens of millions, the animals would soon [...]
DENVER — A Colorado state panel last week recommended that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board voted unanimously for the change. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis will weigh in on the recommendation before a final [...]
The University of California, Berkeley's law school last week joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds. Deans of all three law schools said the magazine's influential ranking system is [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. regulators have approved a plan to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's unanimous vote on the lower Klamath [...]