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Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team via APA US House committee has approved a measure that would delist the endangered Mexican gray wolf. But critics worry it would doom the species. -
Y. Beletsky/European Southern ObservatoryIf you look toward the eastern horizon just before dawn on a clear, moonless night, you should see a ghostly white glow shining up through the dark sky. -
M. Quinn/NPSGrand Canyon National Park officials deny that signage on tribal history and culture was taken down because of its content. -
Cedar Attanasio/APA man charged in a Navajo woman’s 2021 disappearance has pleaded guilty to robbery, a case emblematic of the crisis of killings and disappearances in Native communities.
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The Navajo Nation Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on the federal government to formally recognize tribal identification and the political status of its members. -
Three Delta Tau Delta fraternity members were arrested Saturday on hazing-related charges following the death of a prospective member and NAU student. -
The bodies of nine horses were discovered with gunshot wounds in the forest near Heber-Overgaard. -
In this month’s Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony recounts his many adventures on the rugged Arizona Strip encountering wind-carved Navajo sandstone that can take on familiar-yet-otherworldly forms. -
Award-winning Navajo writer and Arizona State University professor emerita Laura Tohe was recently appointed Arizona poet laureate. She's the second-ever person to serve in the role that's been vacant for seven years. -
Gov. Katie Hobbs calls the comments by Attorney General Kris Mayes about possible dangers from confrontations between citizens and law enforcement officers "inappropriate."
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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map. -
The Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, "we're on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship."
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NPR reporters visited the Milan Olympic Village in the days before the opening ceremony to investigate the dining hall dessert situation and other pressing questions. -
In several states, adults aged 55 to 64 and parents of older teens must prove they’re working, volunteering or doing job training at least 80 hours a month to get food benefits.
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Representatives from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia met in Abu Dhabi for a second round of peace talks. Disagreements include post-war security guarantees, as well as control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
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Sunny and breezy the next couple of days. Friday into the weekend high pressure begins to break down with an area of weak low pressure leading to a few light rain showers each day, temperatures remain mild. A pattern change looks to unfold next week, with a return of winter weather.
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