Native American groups are pressing lawmakers in Congress to adopt permanent protections for grizzly bears, a species widely revered by tribes but that has been proposed for hunting in Wyoming and Idaho.
President Donald Trump is using a Capitol Hill ceremony for fallen law enforcement officers to criticize some big-city prosecutors he asserts don't go after criminals who pose a severe threat to public safety.
While some hydrologists argue a river's source should be traced to its longest tributary, others trace it to the stream that contributes the most water, which would make the Mississippi's source the Missouri or Ohio rivers, respectively.
Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed, hosted Esther George, who leads the Kansas City Fed and takes a different view on rate movement, for lunch with 300 others. It went fine.
On Tuesday morning, I wrote about the Timberwolves and how if they moved up in the draft lottery to the No. 3 or No. 4 spot, it might have some negative implications because of salary implications vs. value.
I still believe that. But there's also no ignoring this: The Wolves did not, in fact, move up. They did, in fact, move down one slot from their pre-lottery position of No. 10 to No. 11.
That was the 12th time in their history that they've moved down from their pre-lottery slot. They have never... Читать дальше...