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Cronkite News: Congress takes up ban on popular TikTok app (March 18, 2024)
Lawmakers from both parties are supporting — and opposing — a bill that would ban TikTok unless the social media app is sold to a non-foreign owner.
President Joe Biden delivered a combative State of the Union that laid out his achievements and baited Republicans for not doing more.
After leaving the Democratic Party, Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona has decided to leave the U.S. Senate for good.
Native America Calling: The day after Super Tuesday (March 6, 2024)
What is on your mind as the presidential race narrows? What other candidates or issues are most important to you?
Since the start of the 118th Congress, only 40 bills have passed both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Cronkite News: Arizona set to expand health care program for children (February 22, 2024)
Arizona officials said they have been given federal approval to expand income eligibility for KidsCare, a change that could add 10,000 children to the low-cost health care program.
The leader of the Choctaw Nation is joining an outpouring of support for the family of a 16-year-old student whose death is under investigation.
Native America Calling: Elder wisdom vs. aging out (February 21, 2024)
Native people have a pronounced respect for the wisdom of elders. But what about elected officials?
RECAP: National Congress of American Indians opens winter session (February 16, 2024)
The National Congress of American Indians opened its executive council winter session in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey) addresses the National Congress of American Indians on February 14, 2024.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) addresses the National Congress of American Indians on February 14, 2024.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) addresses the National Congress of American Indians on February 14, 2024.
VIDEO: Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) at National Congress of American Indians (February 16, 2024)
Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) addresses the National Congress of American Indians on February 14, 2024.
Cronkite News: Border crossings drop amid debate in Congress (February 16, 2024)
Border encounters plunged from record highs of more than 300,000 in December 2023 to 176,205 in January 2024, a decline of 42 percent.
Cronkite News: National Congress of American Indians lays out policy agenda (February 13, 2024)
Tribal nations are seeing themselves represented more than ever before, but they still need to make their voices heard at the ballot box, the leader of the National Congress of American Indians said.
Cronkite News: Bipartisan immigration and border bill faces uncertain future (February 6, 2024)
The Republican Speaker of the House said the bill is “dead on arrival” even before seeing it.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema raised a fraction of what her leading challengers brought in in the last quarter of 2023, raising new questions about her chances in what could be a bruising, three-way race.
The Biden administration was a no-show at a hearing called to examine the future of land consolidation efforts in Indian Country.
Land consolidation back on the agenda for Indian Country (January 25, 2024)
After 10 years and more than $1.6 billion put in the hands of Indian Country, a successful program that was designed to address a harmful era in federal policy has finally come to a close.
Tribes taken Biden administration to court over $4 billion energy project (January 24, 2024)
The Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda is being tested in court with a lawsuit from tribes opposed to a $4 billion development that runs through their homelands.
New leadership named at New Mexico Indian Affairs Department (January 22, 2024)
The New Mexico Indian Affairs Department has entered the new year with new leadership following controversy in 2023.
Source New Mexico: Congress averts shutdown with short-term spending bill (January 22, 2024)
Congress will have until early March to finish work it was supposed to complete last fall under a bill approved with broad bipartisan support.
Republican bill brings firearms debate to Indian Country (January 18, 2024)
A Republican-led bill to ensure tribal identification cards can be used to purchase guns is moving forward despite little debate.
The Biden administration is promising to make it easier for tribes to restore their homelands and for one Indian nation in the Pacific Northwest, the initiative couldn’t come soon enough.
Cronkite News: Tohono O’odham Nation criticizes border wall construction (November 2, 2023)
The leader of the Tohono O’odham said construction of a border wall on his tribe’s territory has caused irreversible damage.
Republican lawmaker criticized for deriding GOP colleagues as ‘wild Indians’ (November 1, 2023)
The National Congress of American Indians is speaking out after a Republican lawmaker made derogatory remarks about Native people.
Sara E. Hill, the former attorney general of the Cherokee Nation, is making history as a nominee to the federal bench.
Cronkite News: New regulations expand access to contraceptives in Arizona (October 17, 2023)
Arizona regulators have finalized long-awaited rules that allow expanded access to over-the-counter hormonal contraceptives for women over age 18 in the state.
Former Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez launches bid for Congress (October 16, 2023)
Jonathan Nez, a former president of the Navajo Nation, is running for Congress in one of the most Native-populated districts in the United States.
“There is now a playbook where the authority is going to continue to be whittled away,” a state prosecutor said of new restrictions on prosecutorial discretion.
Cronkite News: Republican revolt leads to ouster of Speaker of the House (October 6, 2023)
For the first time in history, a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has been removed from the leadership post — a move led by members of his own party.
Nearly three dozens members of the U.S. Congress are calling on President Joe Biden to release American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier from prison.
Laphonza Butler, the president of the well-known EMILY’s List voting group, will serve out the remainder of the U.S. Senate term of the late Dianne Feinstein.
‘Your debt is due’: Tribes on alert as U.S. government looms toward shutdown (September 26, 2023)
Indian Country is on high alert as the U.S. government prepares for a possible shutdown, the first of its kind in more than three years.
Cronkite News: Republicans lead U.S. government into another shutdown (September 22, 2023)
Two Arizona lawmakers were among five Republicans who broke ranks and voted to block a defense authorization bill, the latest twist in a budget fight that could cause a government shutdown.
H.R.663, Native American Child Protection Act (September 19, 2023)
The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.663, the Native American Child Protection Act, on September 18, 2023.
H.R.3371, Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act (September 19, 2023)
The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.3371, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, on September 18, 2023.
A large crowd rallied outside the White House, calling on President Joe Biden to free imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier.
Indian Country is finally seeing progress on a long-overdue update to the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA) although victory is not yet at hand.
Standing among the boisterous crowd of media and onlookers awaiting the arraignment of former U.S. president Donald Trump is one Native woman.
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