State Watch
Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton…
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…
The adoption of electric cars in the Bay Area has resulted in a small but consistent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions, the study found. The researchers documented a 2.6 percent annual decline in vehicle emissions using an air quality monitoring network that was established in the area more than ten years ago.
A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its…
An effort to alter Nebraska to a “winner-take-all” Electoral College system failed a crucial procedural vote late Wednesday, despite endorsement by former President Trump, Gov. Jim Pillen (R-Neb.) and Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.). Changing Nebraska’s Electoral College vote distribution in the Republican-dominated state would bring it in line with much of the rest of the country…
A new California bill introduced is designed to prevent employers from contacting their employees outside of work hours. AB 2751 introduced by State Assemblymember Matt Haney aims to provide greater work-life balance to employees in California by establishing a "right-to-disconnect" from calls, texts, and emails after work.
A New York judge rejected former President Trump’s presidential immunity claims in his hush money case Wednesday, saying Trump waited too long to raise the defense. Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling removes another pathway for Trump to delay his upcoming hush money trial, which on April 15 is slated to become the first criminal trial of…
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study has found. Almost 90 percent of these emissions can be linked to transportation to and from the destination, according to the study, published on Wednesday in PLOS Climate.…
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