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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Company illegally hired minors to sanitize ‘kill floor’ equipment at Iowa meat processing plant, US Dept. of Labor finds

CNN

Editor’s Note: This story contains disturbing descriptions of the tasks the children were hired to perform during their employment in the meat processing plants. The 11 children hired by a third-party Oklahoma-based sanitation contractor, Qvest, were allegedly employed to use corrosive products to “clean head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws and neck clippers” at the Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Sioux …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Feds Again Find Child Labor At Iowa Pork Plant, Prompting New Fine

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING For the second time this year, the federal government has issued a fine over the use of child labor to clean a pork processing plant in the Midwest. Th U.S. Labor Department on Friday announced that Oklahoma’s Qvest LLC must pay nearly $172,000 in civil money penalties, after the government accused the sanitation company of violating the …

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2 months ago

Nebraska Rebuilding Under Sixth-Year Coach Fred Hoiberg, Looking to Make NCAA Tournament Return

Associated Press

Nebraska looks to build off its 1st NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years. The Cornhuskers are looking to take the next step under sixth-year coach Fred Hoiberg. They won their most games since 1990-91 and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 years. The Huskers had the fourth-most experienced roster last season, according to KenPom.com, and they …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

Associated Press

Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022. “It felt in a way musically speaking that we’re really on the same page and speaking the same language.” Zhang …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Baby boy with no family is buried in heartbreaking ceremony, with his tiny coffin carried into church by cops

Daily Mail

A baby boy with no family was laid to rest by police and strangers after his body was found at a South Dakota recycling center. The Sioux Falls community continues to grieve the tragic loss of an infant boy, named Gabriel James Doe, whose lifeless body was discovered at a local recycling center The full-term baby was found around 6:40 …

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4 months, 1 week ago

For increasing number of immigrants, a ‘new life in America’ starts in South Dakota

Associated Press

South Dakota’s increase of foreign-born population over the past 12 years exceeded the national average by three times, according to the American Community Survey Brief of the most recent U.S. Census Bureau report. “I’m really happy with the place where I am, that’s why I stayed here for a very long time.” Weiwei Zhang, state demographer and South Dakota State …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Urban and rural teens swap hometowns and are shocked by what they learn about each other

LA Times

This summer a group of high school students brought a whole new meaning to foreign exchange programs. In a novel program designed to break down entrenched stereotypes and spark lasting friendships, the American Exchange Project sent 13 urban L.A. teens to places like rural Arkansas, Ohio and South Dakota while 10 students from Texas, Pennsylvania and elsewhere arrived in Los …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Fancy Dance: Lily Gladstone’s Apple TV movie shows she’s no one-hit wonder.

Slate

Part road movie, part coming-of-age story, and part noir police procedural, the quietly confident Fancy Dance marks the feature debut of Erica Tremblay, a documentary filmmaker who also wrote and directed episodes of the FX series Reservation Dogs. The script, by Tremblay and Miciana Alise, bears some resemblance to that acclaimed show, in that both involve the lives and longings …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Midwest flooding: Swollen river claims house next to Minnesota dam

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. “It’s been a very scary and hard situation,” Jenny Barnes, whose family owned the house and has run the nearby Dam Store for decades, …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Iowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail added insult to injury for people in the Midwest already contending with heat, humidity and intense flooding after days of rain. The sheriff’s office in Monona County, near the Nebraska border, said the Little Sioux River breached levees in several areas. “Normally, this river is barely a trickle,” 71-year-old …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

US: Railway bridge plunges in Dakota, Minnesota dam on verge of collapse amid massive flooding I VIDEO – India TV

India TV News

Dakota: Flooding in South Dakota has led to significant destruction, including the collapse of a key bridge and widespread damage to homes and infrastructure, Governor Kristi Noem said on Monday. VIDEO: Flooding in South Dakota causes bridge collapse and widespread damage Rain and excessive heat warning Flooding in those states has also come during a vast and stubborn heat wave. …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of Iowa residents have needed rescue from record-setting flooding that has swamped parts of the state, covering buildings up to their rooftops, shutting down major roads, and disrupting basic services like electricity and drinking water. Hospitals, nursing homes and other care facilities were evacuated,” Reynolds said at a news conference over the weekend, calling the expected …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hospitals, nursing homes and other care facilities were evacuated,” …

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6 months ago

Midwest flooding collapses bridge, sends water surging around a dam

Associated Press

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. “I’ve never had to evacuate my house,” Hank Howley, a 71-year-old North Sioux City, South Dakota, resident said as she joined others on a levee of the swollen Big Sioux River, where the railroad bridge collapsed a day earlier. It makes me nervous.” The bridge connected North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City, Iowa, and …

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6 months ago

Midwest Flooding Collapses Rail Bridge, Forces Evacuations And Kills At Least 1

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A railroad bridge collapsed during flooding in the Midwestern U.S. that has forced water rescues, led to evacuations, caused at least one death and brought additional misery during a vast and stubborn heat wave. The bridge connecting North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City, Iowa, collapsed into the Big Sioux River late Sunday, an emergency manager …

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6 months ago

Millions swelter as temperatures soar across the US, while floodwaters inundate the Midwest

Associated Press

Millions of Americans sweated through yet another scorching day as temperatures soared Sunday across the U.S., while residents were rescued from floodwaters that forced evacuations across the Midwest, including in an Iowa town where the flood gauge was submerged. Cities are without power, and some are without drinkable water.” National Weather Service meteorologist Donna Dubberke said parts of northern Nebraska, …

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6 months ago

Flooding forces people from homes in some parts of Iowa while much of US broils again in heat

Associated Press

Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat. “We still have this prolonged heat wave across portions of the Ohio Valley and into the Northeast,” weather service meteorologist Marc Chenard said. “We get a …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Standing Rock activist says she regrets the ultra-liberal protest eight years on: 'I thought I was a journalist... I wasn't'

Daily Mail

A former left-wing environmental activist, who now works for independent media company The Free Press, recently reflected on her time covering the Dakota Access Pipeline protests for progressive social media company NowThis News. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of activists gathered in North Dakota to protest against the construction of a crude oil pipeline Former NowThis News social …

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7 months ago

Gov. Kristi Noem Now Banished By Every Single South Dakota Tribe

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING All nine indigenous tribes in South Dakota have now banned Gov. Until Noem issues an apology, “the people of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe stand with our fellow nations,” the tribe’s statement said. At Monday’s meeting between Noem and tribe leadership, the announcement continued, tribe president Tony Reider “informed the governor that a ban from our territories …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Map reveals how much of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem can no longer visit - and why, as another tribe bans her

Daily Mail

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20 percent of her state after another tribe banished her on Tuesday. 'We do not have cartels on the reservations,' Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Chairman Peter Lengkeek said following Tuesday's vote. Kristi Noem, left, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairwoman Janet Alkire stand during a ceremony in which tribal …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Most of South Dakota's tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land. Here's why

NPR

Most of South Dakota's tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land. "We do not have cartels on the reservations," Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Chairman Peter Lengkeek said following Tuesday's vote. Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has also said "every state is now a border state" when speaking in political battlegrounds in the Midwest, focusing his attacks on President …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Controversy follows Gov. Kristi Noem as she is banned by two more South Dakota tribes

LA Times

Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made this year about tribal leaders benefiting from drug cartels. “We’ve got some tribal leaders that I believe are personally benefiting from the cartels being there, and that’s why they attack me every day,” Noem said at …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Controversy follows Gov. Kristi Noem as she is banned by another South Dakota tribe

Associated Press

Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after another tribe banished her this week and the leaders of a sixth tribe recommended taking that action over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels. Then Friday the leadership committee of the Yankton Sioux Tribe recommended that Noem be banned, but …

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Company illegally hired minors to sanitize ‘kill floor’ equipment at Iowa meat processing plant, US Dept. of Labor finds

Feds Again Find Child Labor At Iowa Pork Plant, Prompting New Fine

Nebraska Rebuilding Under Sixth-Year Coach Fred Hoiberg, Looking to Make NCAA Tournament Return

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

Baby boy with no family is buried in heartbreaking ceremony, with his tiny coffin carried into church by cops

For increasing number of immigrants, a ‘new life in America’ starts in South Dakota

Urban and rural teens swap hometowns and are shocked by what they learn about each other

Fancy Dance: Lily Gladstone’s Apple TV movie shows she’s no one-hit wonder.

Midwest flooding: Swollen river claims house next to Minnesota dam

Iowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest

US: Railway bridge plunges in Dakota, Minnesota dam on verge of collapse amid massive flooding I VIDEO – India TV

What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?

What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?

Midwest flooding collapses bridge, sends water surging around a dam

Midwest Flooding Collapses Rail Bridge, Forces Evacuations And Kills At Least 1

Millions swelter as temperatures soar across the US, while floodwaters inundate the Midwest

Flooding forces people from homes in some parts of Iowa while much of US broils again in heat

Standing Rock activist says she regrets the ultra-liberal protest eight years on: 'I thought I was a journalist... I wasn't'

Gov. Kristi Noem Now Banished By Every Single South Dakota Tribe

Map reveals how much of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem can no longer visit - and why, as another tribe bans her

Most of South Dakota's tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land. Here's why

Controversy follows Gov. Kristi Noem as she is banned by two more South Dakota tribes

Controversy follows Gov. Kristi Noem as she is banned by another South Dakota tribe