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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

NY: Native American/Indigenous

Paige Bethmann and Ku Stevens speak in between interviews at his house on the Yerington Paiute Reservation in Nevada. (Zack Kiszka)
NY Filmmaker Reflects on Upcoming Indian Boarding Schools Documentary

NEW YORK -- A team of New York-based filmmakers is producing a documentary about reclaiming Indigenous heritage, told through the experiences of an 18…

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The Mashomack Preserve is one of more than 100 nature preserves in New York under the care of The Nature Conservancy. (Carl Heilman/The Nature Conservancy)
Partnership Mixes Traditional & Western Ways to Protect NY Preserves

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York environmental groups are teaming up to blend Indigenous knowledge of the land with Western scientific knowledge to …

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The Water Walk for Life will travel 170 miles in 13 days, following the proposed pipeline route. (Andy Cross)
Water Walk for Life to Follow Pipeline Route

NEW YORK -- On Saturday, a Buddhist nun will begin a 13-day, 170-mile Water Walk for Life to protest a proposed dual pipeline from Albany to New …

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Highly radioactive fuel rods currently are stored on site in spent fuel pools or dry cask storage. (NRC)
House Committee Votes to Revive Nuke Dump Plan

NEW YORK – A bill reviving plans to ship thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste thousands of miles by road, rail and barge may come up …

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A new lawsuit contends drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean would threaten critical habitat for whales, fish and coral. (NOAA)
Lawsuit Challenges Reversal of Offshore Drilling Bans

NEW YORK – Environmental groups and Alaska Native Americans say President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority by reversing the ban on drilli…

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NY Town's Battle Over Wind Power Makes it to the Big Screen

MEREDITH, N.Y. - President Obama got bipartisan applause during his State of the Union address when he called for an all-out clean-energy initiative…

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NY Community Centers Take Lead in Health Reform

NEW YORK - This is National Health Center Week, meant to raise awareness about New York's 70 nonprofit, community-based primary care organizations…

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A “Taxing” Year Ahead for Recession-Wracked Nonprofits?

NEW YORK - If times weren't hard enough for the nonprofits that fill in the gaps of society's so-called safety net, their recession-related funding …

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Coalition Offers Money to Jump-Start Lake Ontario Restoration

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A new program will help fund a "facelift" for part of Lake Ontario. The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition is providing $200,00…

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Opponents Sound-Off on Paterson’s Proposed $1.4 Billion in Education Cuts

ALBANY, N.Y. - As if the governor did not already have enough on his plate, David Paterson will be getting protest messages from across the state …

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Census Bureau Takes Its Show on the Road from Times Square

NEW YORK - Times Square with its hustle and bustle is one of the launching pads as New Yorkers are being asked to stand up and be counted in the 2010 …

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Sotomayor Watchers Handicap the Hearings: Judge Winning

New York, NY - Thursday is day four of Senate confirmation hearings on New York federal judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court…

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