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Republican Sen. Keith Regier is proposing asking Congress to study alternatives to reservations... ...The draft resolution argues that reservations have “failed to positively enhance the lives and well-being” of Native Americans, led to substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare dependence, poverty and substandard education. It also argues tribal members who don’t own land have the highest poverty rate and lowest life expectancy of any ethnic group in America. It also argues reservations are “not in the best interests of either the Indians inside our borders or for our common Montana Citizens.”... ...Floyd Azure, chairman of the Fort Peck Tribe in northeastern...

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House Democrats are planning a "short and solemn" ceremony on the Hill to commemorate the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, but one West Virginia Republican says it should be a "day to celebrate." To do so, Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state delegate who served three months in prison for his role in the Capitol attack, announced his official candidacy for Congress on Friday.... ...Evans is running to challenge incumbent Representative Carol Miller, who won reelection in November, in the 2024 Republican primaries for West Virginia's 1st District. "Quite frankly, [Miller] does not represent the America...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday rebuffed calls from leading Republicans to step aside -- or risk impeachment -- and underscored the critical nature of managing migration challenges "gripping" the Western Hemisphere. In an interview with ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos, Mayorkas said he has no plans of resigning.... ...Mayorkas added that while he has no intention of stepping down, he is ready for the investigations promised by the House GOP,... ...The White House will seek to show El Paso as a model for what can be done with migration management in the face of intense challenges that...

OPINION The strange case of Rep.-elect George Santos highlights the tendency of politicians to “embellish their resumes” — otherwise known as lying. Among Mr. Santos’ falsehoods are the claims that he went to Yale, worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and has Jewish ancestry. Then there’s President Biden, who (among a long list of tall tales told over a 50-year career) lied about his undistinguished academic record, being arrested in South Africa during apartheid and being “sorta raised” in a Puerto Rican community. He did watch a lot of “West Side Story” and tried to copy Chita Rivera’s dance moves....

NEW YORK - The NYPD is searching for a trio of men who managed to steal $300,000 in cash from an armored truck outside of a bank in Brooklyn on Friday. The brazen robbery happened at around 1 p.m. in Sunset Park, in front of a Chase Bank....

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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on the Biden administration and local authorities in Florida on Sunday to send back to Brazil its former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. “[Bolsonaro] should be extradited to Brazil,” Castro said to CNN’s Jim Acosta. “In fact, it was reported that he was under investigation for corruption and fled Brazil to the United States. He’s a dangerous man, they should send him back to his home country, Brazil” Bolsonaro flew to Florida in late December as he faced multiple investigations from his time in office, according to...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is done being underestimated. Having vanquished both a Donald Trump-backed Republican challenger and Democratic star Stacey Abrams to win reelection, Kemp is looking to expand his influence in his second term, free from the caricature of the gun-toting, pickup-driving, migrant-catching country boy that emerged during his first campaign for governor. A new vision of Kemp steering his party toward a non-Trumpian conservatism made its debut in his November victory speech after it became clear that he had defeated Abrams by a much larger margin in their rematch than he had in their tight 2018 matchup. “This...

More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists previously thought....the ruling K'iche' elite took a hands-off approach when it came to managing the procurement and trade of obsidian by people outside their region of central control.In these areas, access to nearby sources of obsidian, a glasslike rock used to make tools and weapons, was managed by local people through independent and diverse acquisition networks. Overtime, the availability of obsidian resources and the prevalence of craftsmen to shape it resulted in a system...

In 2006, the skeleton of a decapitated man was found near the entrance to a Medieval tomb that had been built in the 11th century. At the time, researchers suggested the location of the tomb indicated that the skeleton had likely once belonged to a member of the De Citillio family, who had built the church.Initial study of the skeleton of the young man showed that he was approximately 19 to 24 years old when he died. He had the musculature of an archer and a healed wound on his forehead suggesting he had prior experience in warfare. Closer examination...

Becoming Speaker of House of Representatives and the third most powerful politician in America has been a life-long dream for Kevin McCarthy. It has been a dramatic and historic journey for the proud Irish-American. His great-grandfather, Jeremiah McCarthy was born in Cork in the 1800s and traveled to the Golden State, where he married a Mayo woman. From a middle class background in Bakersfield, Kevin McCarthy's family has lived in the south central Californian city and surrounding areas for four generations. Like Joe Biden, he suffered from a speech impediment as a boy. He married his high school sweetheart, Judy,...

In a letter to the Board of Directors for Family Heritage Alliance, Noem asks for Executive Director Norman Woods to be replaced because of his public calls for her to take action on “kid-friendly” drag shows.

This afternoon mainstream media reporting a 'storming' of Brazil's Congress and Presidential Palace by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The same grounds where today's event occurred were heavily guarded last Sunday for President Lula's inauguration. His supporters found themselves frustrated by the tight security. Today a thin line of police quickly gave way to a group of protesters many of whom were adorned with Brazil's flag. There was some pepper spray and tear gas used half-heartedly by the small groups of police present. A crowd in the thousands quickly moved towards government buildings in the capital city of Brasilia....

You wait for years for a urine analysis company, then all of them hit their flow all at once. One of the notable trends at CES in Las Vegas this year was that the quantified-self movement is going deeper. No longer content with just measuring your heart rate, number of steps and EKG on your wrist, a new generation of startups is inching toward full-on medical-grade analysis of its users. Here are a few to keep an eye on:

The prime minister says Ankara is asking for too much in a drawn-out obstruction of NATO membership bid. He voiced confidence that Turkey would relent but could not say when.

#1: I am trying to clone the 64 GB eMMC boot drive in a Win 10 Pro Lenovo N22 to a 256 GB SDATA M.2 drive recently installed in it, using Macrium 8 cloning software. I've used Macrium successfully on several machines in the past, from HDD to SSD, and SSD to SSD, but in this case I keep getting an error message: Clone Failed - - VerifyFileSystem Failed. This occurs after the 1st 2 small volumes successfully clone...:

Debbie Dooley, a cofounder of the national Tea Party movement, spoke with Breitbart News about how the House of Representatives is “truly the people’s house under a Kevin McCarthy speakership” and praised several of McCarthy’s commitments to the American people.Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle opened the interview by asking Dooley to talk about why Kevin McCarthy is the right choice for speaker of the House.Dooley compared McCarthy to former President Donald Trump because they both faced accusations of being a liberal.“I just think Kevin was the right guy for the job and there was never going to be anyone...

Electric vehicles have become popular over the past few years. But EVs could take a significant hit based on what’s happening in Switzerland. According to a report in the Telegraph in December, the country is weighing emergency measures in case of an electricity supply shortage this winter. Switzerland — the best country in the world according to a recent analysis from US News & World Report — could shorten store operating hours, lower the thermostats at buildings, and limit the private use of electric cars to “absolutely necessary journeys.” But just the suggestion of curbing EV use fired up the...

Mixed martial arts phenom Victoria Lee has died suddenly at age 18, according to her family. Lee suddenly died on Dec. 26, according to Angela Lee – who is also a talented MMA fighter. Lee wrote in an Instagram post shared on Saturday, "On December 26, 2022 our family experienced something no family should ever have to go through...It is incredibly difficult to say this...Our Victoria passed away." "She has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then. We miss her. More than anything in this world," Lee continued. "Our family will never be the same....