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Officials at the Department of the Interior are pushing to finalize a new "implementation handbook" to guide agency decision makers on how to "apply indigenous knowledge" in their day-to-day work. The notion of "indigenous knowledge" puts forward that Native groups possess an understanding about the natural world that others do not, due to their ethnic background.The Interior Department's new handbook supplements a Departmental Manual chapter added last year, entitled "Departmental Responsibilities for Consideration and Inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge in Departmental Actions and Scientific Research, 301 DM 7." The aim of the new chapter in the agency-wide manual is to "equitably promote the

Instagram users appear to have questions and concerns after actress Jenny Mollen shared a video revealing her itchy head lice discovery while on an airplane.Mollen, who appeared in the film "My Best Friend’s Girl" and is the wife of actor Jason Biggs, said she was mid-flight from Los Angeles to New York when she realized she had lice that was pointed out by a friend.Her Instagram announcement, along with a follow-up post, was shared by Mollen late last month but has made recent headlines and prompted users to sound off. ARIZONA FLIGHT PASSENGER GOES VIRAL AFTER LEAVING UNMARKED POWDERY SUBSTANCE IN

President-elect Donald Trump's first Department of Education (DOE) secretary, Betsy DeVos, has been floated as one of the potential candidates for the position again. However, if she does not get the job, DeVos has some ideas about who would be a good fit to carry the mantle Trump started in 2017."There's a whole host of Republican governors who have led on issues around at K-12 education, in particular, and in other cases, higher education," DeVos told Fox News Digital in an interview."They have great backgrounds and could do a great, great job in carrying out the policies of a second

Illinois’ Democratic attorney general and a court-appointed monitor are among those warning Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson that his administration’s proposed cuts to police resources may land the crime-wracked city in litigation.During a status hearing last week, monitor Maggie Hickey told Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that cuts to the Chicago Police Department's (CPD’s) Constitutional Policing division could "could be a devastating blow to the future of CPD reforms" under a legally-mandated consent decree, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.State Attorney General Kwame Raoul separately warned Johnson that adopting cuts proposed in his new budget would place Chicago "at significant risk of being held

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan for a short-term bill to kick the government funding debate into early next year is getting a rocky reception from various corners of the House GOP."That's not my preference at all," Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., President-elect Donald Trump’s former Interior secretary, told Fox News Digital. Zinke said a short-term bill that kicks the fiscal year (FY) 2025 government spending fight into early next year could impede Trump’s goal of immediately implementing his agenda in the first 100 days of the new administration. "You’ve always heard the first 100 days is extremely important, and it is. But to

Black supporters of President-elect Donald Trump in Michigan slammed the notion that Black and Hispanic American men who voted for the incoming commander-in-chief are racist and misogynist. "I think it's very insulting because we have our own mind," said Trump supporter Leslie Jones, a maintenance technician at an apartment complex in the Detroit area.Jones proceeded to slam former President Barack Obama for suggesting that misogyny potentially played a role in Black men’s lack of support for the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Before the election, the former prominent Democrat told a group of Black men at a campaign event that it

John Stamos is taking some heat for how he chose to stand in "solidarity" with good pal and former castmate Dave Coulier, who announced he was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma last week.The 61-year-old actor posted a photo on social media wearing a bald cap alongside a bald Coulier, who preemptively shaved his head before his treatment started. In one image, Stamos can be seen using a buzz cutter to precision on Coulier's head."Nothing like throwing on a bald cap and flexing some Photoshop skills to show some love and solidarity with my bro You’re handling this with so

Donald Trump's sentencing for 34 criminal charges in the state of New York was abruptly adjourned by the court Tuesday without explanation, giving the presiding judge additional time to weigh how to proceed. The delayed sentencing came on the same day that District Attorney Alvin Bragg was slated to file a recommendation to Judge Juan Merchan on how to proceed.Trump was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from a case about payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels, which could have landed him a maximum sentence of up to four years in