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Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit

BISMARCK (AP) — A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ...

Theodore Roosevelt library takes 'calculated risk' with remote site

MEDORA (AP) — The day his young wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary that "the light has gone out of my life," and it was only through extended trips to the isolated Dakota Territory in the 1880s that he regained "the romance" of living. A library examining the ...

Trump's big bill is prompting urgent action in some Democratic states

(AP) — New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care — actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to "minimize the damage from President Trump's disastrous bill" cutting federal taxes and spending. The ...

Judge says federal agencies can’t enforce anti-trans bias policies

BISMARCK (AP) — Two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse for religious reasons to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers, a federal judge ruled ...