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The short documentary won the People’s Choice Award at this year's 5Point Adventure Film Festival and will be showing at the festival's encore screening on Saturday, May 4. The film follows Triston Chaney and his Alaskan Yup'ik family as they fight to protect their culture and fishing livelihood against a proposed mining project.
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On today's newscast: over 50 people gathered Tuesday to express disapproval over the Garfield County commissioners' decision to take over library board appointments, Pitkin County commissioners awarded transferable development rights to the Aspen Chapel to help keep it on its feet, western leaders gathered this week to discuss how wildfire destabilizes home insurance markets, and more.
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Jonathan Cooper/APGov. Katie Hobbs plans to sign the repeal of the law that bans nearly all abortions — keeping the state's 15-weeks-of-pregnancy ban in place. But it's unclear when the repeal takes effect -
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for People's RallyPresident Biden announced the relief for attendees of the now-shuttered art schools, saying they "falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt." -
FXMoss plays a British spy on the trail of a woman who may or may not be a terrorist. As the two begin working together, suspicions swirl on both sides. -
AFP via Getty ImagesMembers of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups in Los Angeles clashed, with reports of fireworks and pepper spray use. Elsewhere, universities are tearing down encampments and arresting students.
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Meeting at their worldwide General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., United Methodist delegates voted overwhelmingly to allow LGBTQ clergy and for Methodist ministers to officiate at same-sex weddings. -
Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got. -
Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy. -
After former President Donald Trump and Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake distanced themselves from the law, some abortion rights opponents are left wondering who they can count on. -
A new 2024 election poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows fundamental divides over concerns for America's future and what to teach the next generation. -
Nickelodeon's megahit show SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut on May 1, 1999. Fans of the cartoon span generations and the animated series has become a multibillion-dollar franchise.
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