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Spokesman Bryan Lanza said in a memo this week to supporters that Trump's backing for the pipeline near a North Dakota Indian reservation ``has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans.' ' Trump's most recent federal disclosure forms, filed in May, show he owned a small amount of stock in Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline builder, and at least $100,000 in Phillips 66, an energy company that owns one-quarter of the pipeline.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is being considered for the job as Energy Secretary within President-elect Donald Trump's new administration, according to published reports from Politico.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is being considered for a job as energy secretary in President-elect Donald Trump's new administration, according to a report from Politico. Manchin would be the second Democrat Trump is reportedly considering for a Cabinet post.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said for the first time that he supports the completion of a pipeline project near a North Dakota Indian reservation, which has been the subject of months of protests by tribes and environmentalists. A communications briefing from Trump's transition team said despite media reports that Trump owns a stake in Energy Transfer Partners , the company building the pipeline, Trump's support of the pipeline "has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans."
Donald Trump's transition team says the incoming president will meet on Friday with North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp , a Democrat up for re-election in 2018.
Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a government directive to leave the federal land where hundreds have camped for months, organizers said Saturday, despite state officials encouraging them to do so. Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault and other protest organizers confidently explained that they'll stay at the Oceti Sakowin camp and continue with nonviolent protests a day after Archambault received a letter from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that said all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec. 5 for "safety concerns."
An organizer of protests against the Dakota Access pipeline says he believes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to close land to demonstrators will escalate tensions. Dallas Goldtooth is a protest organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
North Dakota's democrat senator Heidi Heitkamp is pushing back against her party's negative stereotypes of Donald Trump supporters. In a piece appearing on the website Politico, Heitkamp challenged the idea that Trump supporters are different than anyone else.
The fallout from the re-opened Hillary Clinton email scandal continued today when North Dakota's only Democrat at the federal level, avid Clinton supporter Heidi Heitkamp told Valley News Team's Jovana Simic she had "no comment" when asked about the latest bombshell regarding Clinton's possible violations of the espionage act. The emails in question belong to Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin and were found on Anthony wiener's computer, Abedin's estranged husband who's being investigated for allegedly exchanging explicit messages with a teenager.
North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp gave Chelsea Clinton a Carson Wentz jersey during a campaign stop this week. As we've explained in these pages before, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky are Eagles fans.
Family members as well as local and state officials came to the Fargo City Commission meeting Monday night to talk about the opioid addiction crisis in our area. "If there is anybody else in the audience that you personally have been affected by addiction, or you know of friends and family members that are struggling with addiction, if you wouldn't mind just raising your hand letting me know how many people here know somebody, love somebody or they have friends that suffer from addiction," Nikki Anderson said.
An Air Force installation in North Dakota has been trying to find its niche since its mission was changed a few years ago from refueling tankers to unmanned aircraft. Its focus might one day be at the top of the world.
The agency says in a statement that Jo-Ellen Darcy, the Assistant Secretary of the Army, cancelled the trip due to "an unforeseen personal issue." The agency did not elaborate.
Senators John Hoeven, R-ND, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND, Thursday joined a bipartisan group of 10 senators, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in urging the Department of Defense to replace the Vietnam-era UH-1N helicopters as soon as possible. While these helicopters are responsible for protecting the nation's intercontinental ballistic missile fleet, including those located around Minot Air Force Base, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command has deemed them insufficient for addressing current threats to our national security.