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Flickr Creative Commons Some Indigenous histories are preserved in stories, songs, ceremonies and elder testimony that are passed down orally — rather than with written records. These histories can constitute important evidence of past events. But theyre sometimes ruled inadmissible as evidence in the American justice system. Thats what happened when lawyers for the Jemez Pueblo presented oral histories as proof of its aboriginal claim to land in the now federally managed Valles Caldera Nat...

0:58 Some Indigenous histories are preserved in stories, songs, ceremonies and elder testimony that are passed down orally - rather than with written records. These histories can constitute important evidence of past events. But theyre sometimes ruled inadmissible as evidence in the American justice system. Thats what happened when lawyers for the Jemez Pueblo presented oral histories as proof of its aboriginal claim to land in the now federally managed Valles Caldera National Preserve in North...

By David Poulson One of the delights of Michigan State University’s Fate of the Earth conference is the dinner for organizers and speakers the night before. I always angled to get a seat next to Barbara Sawyer-Koch, a former MSU trustee, who with her late husband Donald Koch, an MSU philosophy professor, endowed this annual conference on sustainability. It was their support that allowed MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism to help bring top-flight environmental journalists to sp...

In Ghana's Northern Region, thousands of villages rely on water from artificial ponds during the region's long dry season. The water is unsafe to drink...

Harvard University Honors a Pakistani Professor Harvard University has honored a Pakistani professor, Syed Kashif Rafi, as the mentor at the recent ‘The Education Policython’. The professor is currently working as the registrar at Ilma University, Karachi. Professor Rafi showcases a celebrated trail of prestigious positions during his two-decade versatile journey. Always instituting at top posts throughout his coveted career, Professor Rafi exhibited diversity in the reputable roles as an a...

On February 5, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding its Audit Policy Program, signaling that the Biden...

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland pledged Monday that the Justice Department would avoid conflicts of interest in any investigation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the state’s nursing home crisis during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hunter Biden probe, Gov. Andrew Cuomo nursing home scandal expected to be topics at hearing for attorney general pick Merrick Garland. Jamil Jaffer, director of the National Security Law & Policy Program at George Mason University, with reaction. Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland concurred Monday with the U.S. intelligence community’s view that China is a "threat" in certain ways to U.S. interests but declined to say whether he views the country’s leadership in Beijing as an en...

Judge Merrick Garland, President Bidens pick to be the next attorney general of the United States, vowed to be "mindful of the tremendous responsibility" of leading the Justice Department during his confirmation hearing on Monday -- as Senate Republicans grilled him on hot-button issues, including John Durhams Trump-Russia origins probe and the Hunter Biden investigation. At one point, when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Garland if he would consider himself the presidents "wingman" as former At...

President Biden’s nominee for attorney general Judge Merrick Garland said he sees “no reason” why Special Counsel John Durham should not be left in place to continue his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.