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The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that is sacred to Western Apache Indians.The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland containing a Native American sacred site to a copper-mining company. The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat. The land, which has great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians, sits on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore. Justice...

You thought for all these years of hard work you were going to get a real graduation ceremony, and instead your mom erected this embarrassing plaque by your front door. Sad sights are popping up all over my neighbourhood: yard signs reading, “So and so of such and such high school. Class of 2020.” Congratulations, Emily and Jacob, you are being ripped off! You thought for all these years of hard work and perseverance you were going to get a real graduation ceremony, and instead your mom erected this embarrassing plaque by your front door.All over America. traditional graduation ceremonies...

Can’t say I saw this one coming. I awoke this day with a tear moistened pillow, after a night of unsettling dreams. Put on the coffee at 0530, same as I have every day for the last 30 years, but I knew that everything in my life from today forward had somehow changed. Little things set me off to blubbering like a girly-man: a red squirrel searching for a late winter cache of acorns tucked in by the stone wall that the deer had yet to find. The same wall that 19 years ago, a happy little boy delighted in...