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As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu

by The Associated Press
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press (AP) — The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans: Authorities quickly moved to disparage the victims, only to be contradicted as more evidence emerged. Black families who have lost loved ones to... Read More.

Stranded by winter weather? Here’s what airlines owe you

by The Associated Press
By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer (AP) — Winter weather can upend even the best-laid travel plans, but one less thing to worry about is losing money if your flight is canceled: U.S. airlines are required to provide refunds. A monster storm started to wreak havoc on Saturday across parts of the country, with... Read More.
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Trump’s DoJ investigating whether Minnesota’s Walz and Frey impeded ICE

by The Associated Press
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and JACK BROOK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, two people familiar with the matter said Friday. The investigation, which both Walz and Frey said... Read More.

Native American business draws shocked response over contract to design immigration detention centers

by The Associated Press
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, JOSHUA GOODMAN and JOHN HANNA Associated Press MAYETTA, Kan. (AP) — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage from fellow Native Americans over plans to profit from another forced removal: President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A... Read More.
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States worry about how to fill the gap in food aid ahead of a federal benefits halt

by The Associated Press
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press (AP) — Officials in Louisiana, Vermont, and Virginia pledged Thursday to keep food aid flowing to recipients in their states, even if the federal program is stalled next month because of the government shutdown. The fate of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 1 in 8 Americans... Read More.

Energy Department offers $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across Midwest

by The Associated Press
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Energy said on Thursday it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation's largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy. AEP Transmission... Read More.

Gov. Stitt opposes sending out-of-state troops to states that don’t welcome them

by The Associated Press
By SEAN MURPHY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, said on Thursday that he opposes sending National Guard troops across state borders without the permission of the state receiving them. The position from a sitting Republican official posed a rare... Read More.
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Federal shutdown hurts services for Native Americans and they worry worse is coming

by The Associated Press
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to health care, education, infrastructure, and other services funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago. Tribal nations with casinos, oil and gas leases, and other independent revenue sources said they... Read More.

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges

by The Associated Press
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press (AP) — The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty on Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said. Robert Preston Morris, 64, entered the pleas... Read More.
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