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Thomas Peipert/APThe sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face. -
Chris Clements/KNAUA new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him. -
Deborah Lee Soltesz/USFS Coconino National ForestThree decades ago, the use of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation over the region was tested as part of a large field experiment. -
Matthew Brown/AP/APThe U.S. Department of the Interior is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development as part of President Donald Trump's attempt to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
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A consultant for Essential Minerals says the proposed project near Coppermine is only being explored. But Navajo residents are still skeptical. -
Calling the Republican budget “unbalanced and reckless,” Gov. Katie Hobbs late Tuesday vetoed the entire $17.9 billion package of spending bills and tax cuts. -
Paleontologists exploring the Zuni Basin of western New Mexico in the 1990s uncovered a turtle fossil shell that was later determined to be an entirely new species. -
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is warning about a potential rabies outbreak after a string of aggressive bobcat attacks near Prescott earlier this week. -
May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons. It reflects both the collective grief and the resilience of Indigenous communities. -
Another severe wildfire season is forecast for the Western U.S. due to record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack, but some states and utilities are trying to get ahead of that threat using AI.
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A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a young woman who was killed in the second of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes within months of each other in 2018 and 2019. -
Former national security official Rush Doshi says President Trump's sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods sparked a clash in which China prevailed. We look at the current state of U.S.-China relations.
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They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. The sauropod — an herbivore with a long neck and tail — comes from the late Early Cretaceous period, some 100 to 120 million years ago. -
Melinda Liu moved to Beijing in 1980. She later opened Newsweek's Beijing bureau and has made Beijing her home for decades. -
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened their two-day summit on Thursday, focused on trade, security, and stability.
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