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Federal government apologizes to Dakota, Lakota nations for historical mistreatment
Saskatoon Share on Facebook Share on X Share by Email Canada labelled Dakota and Lakota as ‘refugees’ and denied them many historic treaty benefits Posted: 4 Hours Ago Last Updated: 37 Minutes Ago Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree, left, shakes hands with Canupawakpa Dakota Nation Chief Raymond Brown during a ceremony at Whitecap Dakota …
How federal agencies are responding to Trump assassination attempt
Federal agencies across government are deploying personnel and resources in response to the assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday, which left Trump mostly unharmed but at least one bystander at the Pennsylvania campaign rally dead. The FBI has taken the lead of the investigation, though the Secret Service and several other agencies remain heavily …
Federal government investigating the AT&T security breach
Federal government investigating the AT&T security breach – CBS News Watch CBS News The federal government is investigating one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history. AT&T has confirmed that six months worth of call and text message records for nearly all of its wireless customers was hacked in 2022. Be the first to …
Minnesota has plan to sell school trusts lands in BWCAW to federal government
A new proposal would allow the federal government to buy more than 80,000 acres of Minnesota state-owned land in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, moving away from land-exchange discussions that have played out without resolution for at least a decade or more. The acreage is school trust land across the BWCAW managed by the …
Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party loyal to him. Under this plan, if he eventually deemed those new employees disloyal, he claims he could …
Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An environmental group is suing the federal government to force the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess the long-term environmental effects of delays in shutting down inactive oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., by the nonprofit Center for Biological …
Iowa State University receives federal grant for power distribution grid work • Iowa Capital Dispatch
As electricity usage in homes increases due to modernization and weather changes, Iowa State University researchers are working to keep the lights on and the power grid working smoothly with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The project, led by Grumman associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Zhaoyu Wang, will …
Top 5 potential uses, pitfalls for generative AI in federal government
The U.S. government has stringent rules and requirements aimed at safeguarding data and ensuring cyber security. Within this context, multi-agent systems, or MAS, offer a promising avenue to integrate and enhance existing legacy tooling, serving as a bridge to the advanced capabilities of generative AI. As these advanced systems begin to permeate various industry sectors, …