by Zoya Mirza | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — More needs to be done to return ancestral remains and artifacts to Native communities, and tribal leaders should have a bigger say in the federal government’s efforts, experts and members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs said Wednesday. The...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
An appellate court is expected to rule soon on the constitutionality of New York’s mask mandates WASHINGTON — Even as the COVID-19 omicron variant surges, many school districts around the country — as well as some states like Virginia — are relaxing mask...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: How are changes made to the U.S. Constitution? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, representatives...
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by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Acclaimed poet and writer Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to have her likeness featured on a quarter after the U.S. Mint released the newly minted coin on Jan. 10. The Maya Angelou coin is the first in a series of quarters to be released...
by Courtney Degen and Cristobella Durrette | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday convened a group of doctors and scientists who have been criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation to “get a second opinion” on the health issues facing Americans because of the pandemic. “Until COVID, a...
