Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with thunderstorms and a high of sixty-one. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset 7:39 PM, for 13h 31m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred eighty-ninth day.
On this day in 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 successfully returns to Earth despite an oxygen tank explosion during their mission.
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Shawn Regan writes 5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty:
Imagine if the government were responsible for looking after your best interests. All of your assets must be managed by bureaucrats on your behalf. A special bureau is even set up to oversee your affairs. Every important decision you make requires approval, and every approval comes with a mountain of regulations.
How well would this work? Just ask Native Americans.
The federal government is responsible for managing Indian affairs for the benefit of all Indians. But by all accounts the government has failed to live up to this responsibility. As a result, Native American reservations are among the poorest communities in the United States. Here’s how the government keeps Native Americans in poverty.
Indian lands are owned and managed by the federal government.
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Nearly every aspect of economic development is controlled by federal agencies.
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Reservations have a complex legal framework that hinders economic growth.
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Energy regulations make it difficult for tribes to develop their resources.
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The federal government has repeatedly mismanaged Indian assets.
Michael Kranish reports Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump:
After Bernie Sanders lost his presidential primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election. “Conscious Bernie Sanders supporters already moving towards the best candidate Trump! #Feel the Bern #Vote Trump 2016,” the account tweeted.
The tweet was not actually from Louisiana, according to an analysis by Clemson University researchers. Instead, it was one of thousands of accounts identified as based in Russia, part of a cloaked effort to persuade supporters of the senator from Vermont to elect Trump. “Bernie Sanders says his message resonates with Republicans,” said another Russian tweet.
While much attention has focused on the question of whether the Trump campaign encouraged or conspired with Russia, the effort to target Sanders supporters has been a lesser-noted part of the story. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, in a case filed last year against 13 Russians accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential campaign, said workers at a St. Petersburg facility called the Internet Research Agency were instructed to write social media posts in opposition to Clinton but “to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.”
Trump threatened to close the border. Here’s what could happen if he did: