(CNN) – The Biden administration scored a significant victory Friday in its court battles to enforce various federal vaccine mandates, with an appeals court ruling that the government can enforce a vaccine-or-testing rule for companies with more than 100 employees. The decision, from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, came after a separate appeals court on Friday declined a…
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Her classmates stood around her at a prayer circle designed with archetypes of…
(FOX 9) – Derek Chauvin has notified the federal court in Minnesota of a change of plea to charges that he violated George Floyd’s constitutional rights. A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. at the federal courthouse in St. Paul. The scheduling of the hearing signal that Chauvin intends to plead guilty to the charges. Chauvin…
North Dakota State Bison/FacebookFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota State advances to the FCS Semifinals. The Bison take down East Tennessee State 27-3 at the Fargodome on Saturday. Get complete coverage of the game on KVRR Local News at 9. Categories: Local News, North Dakota News Tags: Bison, EAST TENNESSEE STATE, FCS, NDSU, semifinals
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – Live coverage continues during the third day of the Kim Potter trial in Minneapolis. The former police officer is charged in connection with the death of Daunte Wright. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News Tags: daunte wright, KIM POTTER TRIAL
CHICAGO (AP) – A jury has convicted Jussie Smollett on five of six charges he staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself and lied to Chicago police about it. The jury returned the verdict Thursday afternoon against the former actor from the TV show “Empire” after a weeklong trial. Jurors acquitted him on one charge. Two brothers testified that Smollett…
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve already knows what it’s like to win Olympic gold as an assistant coach. Now she’ll get to the chance to do it for the first time as the leader of one of the greatest dynasties in the history of sports. Reeve on Wednesday was named the next head coach of the…
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The company provides cloud computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Amazon said in a post an hour after the outage began that it had identified the root cause and was “actively working towards recovery.” The issue primarily…
David Russell (Fox News)HONOLULU – U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell sought refuge below deck on the USS Oklahoma when Japanese bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. But a split-second decision changed his mind, and likely saved his life. “I thought, ‘What am I doing down here?’ I was trained to be an anti-aircraft loader,”…
WASHINGTON – The White House says the U.S. will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing to protest Chinese human rights abuses. It’s move that China has vowed to greet with “firm countermeasures.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during Monday’s briefing that U.S. athletes will continue to compete and will “have our full…
