LOCAL NEWS Army-Navy game hotel reservations canceled due to influx of migrants in Massachusetts

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FOXBORO - It is one of the most anticipated games in college football and this year it is being played at Gillette Stadium. The Army-Navy game will make its Foxboro debut on December 9th.  American presidents often attend, but you can be certain tens of thousands of veterans will pour into the...

MATT LONDON: A White House memo instructs all U.S. media how to report the Biden impeachment process - accusing 'liars and hucksters' of peddling disinformation. Have they no irony... or shame?

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A very blunt memo to the White House: Back off - the American media is not your damn mouthpiece. On Wednesday morning, the President made his visceral disdain for the press exceedingly clear when his White House blasted a Soviet-style communique out to every major media organization in the...

Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history

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“Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred”

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back. The state is taking the rare...

Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history

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“Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred”

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back. The state is taking the...

A tidal wave of stray cats is overwhelming neighborhoods across NYC

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A tidal wave of stray cats has hit New York City this summer, paralyzing its shelter system as volunteers scramble for solutions and call for more city action. The stray cats live hard lives, often sick and at risk of infection with missing eyes or limbs. They can also carry parasites and...

Native American leader and trailblazer Ada Deer dies at 88

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Ada Deer, the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is being remembered as a decades-long champion of Native American rights in Wisconsin and the nation. Deer died Tuesday night at age 88. Deer’s life in Wisconsin was marked by several firsts, including becoming the first...

SEMPER PARATUS - Happy Birthday Coast Guard - 1790 - present - 233 years

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R 031215Z AUG 23ALMAR 022/23MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC DMCS//SUBJ/UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 233RD BIRTHDAY//GENTEXT/REMARKS/ 1.  On behalf of the United States Marine Corps, I salute the United States Coast Guard, our Nation's first maritime military force, on the 233rd anniversary of its...

Bowe Bergdahl's conviction vacated by federal judge, citing potential for conflict of interest

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“A military judge had applied to work in the Justice Department, the order said.”

Former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was court-martialed for desertion during his tour of Afghanistan, had his conviction vacated on Tuesday by a federal judge, who said a military judge had failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest. Prior to ruling on Bergdahl's case, the military...

California Democrats BLOCK bill that would make child trafficking a serious felony because they say a 'three strikes' rule that could see offenders jailed for life is 'ineffective in preventing crime'

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California Democrats have blocked a bill that would have made child sex trafficking a serious felony in the state. The Democrat-led Assembly Public Safety Committee voted on Tuesday not to advance Republican State Sen. Shannon Grove's bill to make child sex trafficking subject to the state's...

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute

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“The tribe is blocked from pursuing a lawsuit claiming the federal government has a duty to assert the tribe’s water rights.”

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the Navajo Nation over claims that the federal government has failed to assert the tribe's desperate need for water access in the arid West. The justices, divided 5-4, said a lawsuit the tribe filed against the federal government must be thrown out....