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#south-dakota

Kristi Noem's hate and hypocrisy know no bounds.Last week, South Dakota's gay-hating governor signed a pledge written by the anti-LGBTQ+ group conservative PAC Moms for Liberty to "advance policies that strengthen parental decision-making.""In South Dakota, we're building stronger families by protecting parents' rights," Noem announced on Twitter.

On Wednesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed an executive order protecting trans youth and adults seeking gender-affirming care in the state.He called it urgent work as a wave of legislation in neighboring states and around the country rolls back LGBTQ+ rights."We want every Minnesotan to grow up feeling safe, valued, protected, celebrated, and free to exist as their authentic versions of themselves," Walz said.

South Dakota government workers must delete TikTok from their phones, under an order from Gov. Kristi Noem.She banned TikTok on Tuesday for South Dakota state government employees, agencies and contractors."South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us," she said in a statement.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants say they are actively preparing to move a party-line bill to raise the national debt limit if President Joe Biden continues to draw a firm line against talks with House Republicans to avoid the nation's first-ever default.The move would be a risky one.The GOP can only afford to lose four votes on any partisan plan, and thorny fiscal issues have long divided their party.

Babies born to opioid users had shorter hospital stays and needed less medication when their care emphasized parent involvement, skin-to-skin contact and a quiet environment, researchers reported Sunday.Newborns were ready to go home about a week earlier compared to those getting standard care.Fewer received opioid medications to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as tremors and hard-to-soothe crying, about 20% compared to 52% of the standard-care babies.

Azeen Ghorayshi Reporting on gender and science On Thursday, the Williams Institute, a research center at the U.C.L.A. School of Law, released a new report estimating the number of transgender young people at risk of losing access to gender-related care as a result of state bills sweeping the country.

For many people of a certain age, being sent to the principal's office for an infraction and being paddled was just something that happened.Until relatively recently, corporal punishment in schools was not only accepted, it was applauded by many parents who felt schools should offer strict discipline, just like many parents did at home.

The European Commission on Thursday banned the use of the TikTok short video app on corporate devices and on the personal devices of employees enrolled in the commission's mobile device management service.The ban was enacted to enhance cyber security at the behest of the commission's Corporate Management Board, which oversees and coordinates management issues for the EU's executive arm.

Demonstrators hold signs in front of the South Carolina Statehouse as lawmakers debate an abortion ban in Columbia, South Carolina, on August 30, 2022.Sean Rayford / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Reproductive rights supporters in South Carolina and across the country celebrated Thursday once the state Supreme Court permanently struck down a law banning abortion after around six weeks, or before many people even know they are pregnant.

With no lottery winners matching all six numbers Tuesday, the Mega Millions jackpot has grown to nearly $1 billion, one of the largest prizes in the game's history.The next drawing on Friday will be for an estimated $940-million prize, the multi-state lottery body announced on Wednesday.This marks the fourth-largest jackpot since the Mega Millions launched in 2002.

Robert Zeidman, a software detective who literally wrote the book on looking for evidence of wrongdoing in lines of computer code (The Software IP Detective's Handbook), was awarded $5 million on April 19 by an arbitration panel for winning the "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge.That is, he debunked a claim made by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who insisted that he had data documenting Chinese interference in the 2020 election.

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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act that was introduced by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) has just crossed a major milestone.Members of the US Senate have unanimously voted to approve the bill, which will ban the TikTok app on all government-owned phones and other devices.

Cherlynn Low / Engadget  We've talked a few times about the appeal of capable digital styluses and e-ink note-taking.Surely, it's the perfect study tool?This time, Amazon tries it out.The Kindle Scribe, at $340, is costlier than a basic e-ink reader, but it has stylus input, high latency and a few more tricks.

Chesnot via Getty Images  Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has signed an executive order prohibiting government employees, agencies and contractors from downloading and using TikTok on state-owned devices.In her office's announcement, Noem said she issued the order due to growing security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using the social media app to gather information from American users and leveraging it to manipulate them.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday vetoed a Republican-led bill that would prohibit transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care, such as surgical procedures or the use of certain hormones, bucking a growing trend of states restricting access to the treatments.Republican state lawmakers passed the bill last week, arguing that children should not be allowed to make such consequential decisions and that the ban would protect minors.

Deshawn Hendricks, 26, wants to check his drugs for the powerful opioid fentanyl when he can, because as a crack user, he worries it could cause a life-threatening overdose.Matthew Todd, 32, tests for another reason: As an opioid user, he has come to depend on the quick and intense high fentanyl provides, and wants to make sure what he purchased is real.

Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, arguing the bans violate the US Constitution and should be thrown out.The two new rules from Florida's Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine prohibit medical professionals in the state from providing gender-affirming care to minors in the state with gender dysphoria, including by administering puberty blockers, providing cross-sex hormone therapy and performing sex reassignment surgeries, or any other surgical procedures, that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has signed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.So far, seven other states have also banned such care.Reynolds has also signed a transphobic school bathroom bill into law.The healthcare ban ( SF 538) - which went into effect immediately after Reynolds signed it into law on Wednesday - bans healthcare professionals from providing any medical treatment that attempts "to alter the appearance of, or affirm the minor's perception of" a gender other than that that the minor was assigned at birth.

Almost 23% of trans youth in the United States have lost access to gender-affirming care.A new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) found that of the 300,000 trans youth ages 13 through 17, there are 66,600 living in states that have passed bans on this lifesaving care.And 84,700 more trans youth (28.2%) live in states that are currently considering bans.

New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday signed into law a bill that prohibits local municipalities and other public bodies from inferring with a person's ability to access reproductive or gender-affirming health care services.HB7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act, also prohibits any public body from imposing laws, ordinances, policies or regulations that prevent patients from receiving reproductive or gender-affirming care.

"Where do you call home?" a reporter once asked me in an interview for her newspaper."Iowa," I said."I thought you lived in Chicago," she replied."I do," I said."But I'm out of Iowa.I'm from there, and I left there."Then, I explained that I'd lived in Chicago for most of my life but was slowly migrating back to Iowa the whole time.

Good morning.It's Wednesday.We'll meet a World War II code breaker who turns 100 today.We'll also look at a filing by Representative George Santos that suggests he is already considering running for another term in Congress.Image Credit...Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Somewhere in Rockaway Park, N.Y., is a World War II code breaker who is finally talking.

(CNN)Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota offered Sunday a stark warning about the future of Social Security and Medicare if Congress fails to take action now."In the next 11 years, we have to have a better plan in place than what we do today.Or we're going to see -- under existing circumstances -- some reductions of as much as 24% in some sort of a benefit.

Cars Car thefts are down in Massachusetts, but the top target for thieves is not a Tesla or BMW.It's a Honda.Contrary to what you might expect, the most frequently stolen car in Massachusetts isn't a luxury vehicle - it's an everyday fuel-efficient sedan.A new report from Quote Wizard, a car insurance quote website, found that the Honda Accord is the most frequently stolen car model in the Bay State.

Gasoline with higher blends of ethanol could be sold year-round in eight Midwestern states beginning in 2024 under a rule proposed Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.The proposed rule is a victory for the biofuels industry, which for years has pushed to allow sales of gasoline blended with 15% ethanol during the summer, which hasn't been allowed because of concerns that it would worsen smog during hot weather.

Voters in Oklahoma will reject a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state for adults ages 21 and older, CNN projects.The ballot measure at stake in Tuesday's special election was one of several such measures on cannabis use that has been considered by voters in recent months.

Missouri's Republican attorney general is seeking to implement an emergency regulation to restrict gender-affirming care for minors.Because gender transition interventions are experimental, the regulation clarifies that state law already prohibits performing experimental procedures in the absence of specific guardrails, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a news release on Monday.

South Dakota is set to prohibit nearly all forms of gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors after a proposed law gained sweeping approval through its state legislature.The state Senate passed a House bill banning surgical and non-surgical gender-affirming treatment for minors on Thursday in a 30-4 vote, advancing the legislation to Gov. Kristi Noem's desk.

Some US lawmakers are working to ban TikTok.That wold be a boon to Snap, Meta, and Google, CFRA says.The research firm says TikTok could make $9 billion-$10 billion in US revenue in 2024.There probability TikTok will be banned is still low but it's gone up significantly over the last six months, the firm said.

Residents of Gila River Indian Community listen during a "Road to Healing" event, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, at the Gila Crossing Community School in Laveen, Ariz.Matt York (AP) During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to go on what the school called an outing, promoted as opportunities for Native American students to earn spending money off campus.

WAIMEA, HI - DECEMBER 8: Makuakai Rothman, Sunny Garcia, and Ibon Amatrian ride a wave during the first round of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Competition big wave surfing contest on December 8, 2009 in Waimea, Hawaii.Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii's beaches to see some of the largest waves in the state in half a decade.

Developments & Construction "We talked about something distinctive.I think we got it."The newest addition to Boston University's campus zigzags skyward, its unusual shape reminiscent of a precarious Jenga tower or - perhaps more fittingly - an off-kilter stack of textbooks.And the 19-story Center for Computing & Data Sciences is just as interesting on the inside, from its whiteboard walls to its groundbreaking geothermal system.

Big cars and trucks could end up costing California drivers more in vehicle registration fees, if a new bill that was introduced in the state Legislature is approved.Vehicle registration fees in California are based on the value of the car, but a bill introduced by Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward (D-San Diego) would look at what the impact could be if there was a fee based on weight.

Game tied at 123 in front of 2,340 fans.Next point wins.It was overtime in South Dakota.Reggie Perry tried to score from the perimeter, but got walled off by Sioux Falls' defence, so he passed it out to David Johnson.Perry stuck his hand out, calling for the ball.His hand, his body language screamed, "Give me the damn ball, let me score this!"

Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema switched her political affiliation from Democrat to independent in December.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema smiles while talking to reporters after leaving the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill on November 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Republican leadership in the Senate is openly courting Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema - a former Democrat who changed her party affiliation to independent in December - to caucus with Republicans or become an official member of the GOP.

Mario Tama/Getty Images A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in the United States was introduced in Congress on Tuesday.The Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act, or ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act, would forbid transactions to TikTok or its parent company Bytedance Ltd., or a subsidiary or a successor company of the two.

STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images  TikTok is now facing its first state lawsuit over data security.Indiana's Attorney General has sued TikTok for allegedly misleading users about China's data access and violating child safety.The social media service supposedly broke state consumer law by failing to warn that the Chinese government could theoretically obtain sensitive data.

Sean Sherman, better known to his fans as the Sioux Chef, began hosting pop-up dinners around his adopted hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2012, using foraged ingredients like sunflowers, milkweed and sage.After finessing his craft and writing a successful cookbook he finally decided to up the ante, opening Owamni, a modern Indigenous restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River.

A school district in Missouri could become the next to adopt a four-day educational week for students, joining a growing number of school districts across the country in shifting to a truncated school week.St.Joseph School District in Kansas City recently announced that administrators and board members are considering a truncated week after board members in another Missouri district voted 6-1 to shorten their school week from five to four days.

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Fueled seemingly by just one source, Black Sox scoundrel Swede Risberg, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story teasing deeper details of the squad that shall live in infamy - namely, that in the "pristine,", 100-win season of 1917, the Detroit Tigers threw a four-game series to the White Sox in that season's stretch run.

Say goodbye to dance videos on government phones.The popular app TikTok will be banned on federal government devices once a shutdown-averting $1.7 trillion spending bill is signed into law by President Biden.Though the bipartisan legislation was largely focused on funding the government, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

Perhaps you missed the big news: In 2023, there will be a record-breaking 12 women serving as governors around the nation.Way over the previous record of  nine.And your reaction is: Hey, that's 24 percent  not bad.That's less than a quarter!Are any of them going to run for president?And does that mean we have to discuss Kamala Harris?

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TikTok will be outlawed on almost all devices issued by the federal government after lawmakers passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill.Officials crammed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, which the Senate unanimously approved in mid-December, into the mammoth 4,155-page omnibus bill.

After obtaining Senate approval last week, the No TikTok on Government Devices Act could become law thanks to the $1.7 trillion spending bill federal lawmakers unveiled early Tuesday morning.In addition to allocating more funding for Ukraine and earmarking $40 billion for natural disaster recovery efforts across the US, the sprawling 4,155-page bill includes provisions that would prohibit the use of TikTok on government-owned phones and other devices.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota's six public universities plan to offer in-state tuition rates to students from Wisconsin and Illinois by next fall.The South Dakota Advantage plan has until now offered in-state tuition to undergraduates and graduate students from Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming residents, the Argus Leader reported Thursday.

Indiana's attorney general filed a pair of lawsuits against TikTok on Wednesday, accusing the company of misleading users about its ties to the Chinese government and showing mature content to minors, as first reported by The New York Times.In his first complaint, Attorney General Todd Rokita claimed that TikTok deceived parents on the amount of sexual and drug-related content accessible to young users of the app.