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• U.S. federal judge grants nationwide injunction blocking White House transgender policy

  22-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Signs are posted outside Santee High School’s gender neutral restrooms at its campus in Los Angeles on May 4. (Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
  Months after the Obama administration advised school districts that transgender students should be given access to bathrooms based on their gender identity, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the guidance from going into effect — for now.
  U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor has granted a preliminary, nationwide injunction in resp
  
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• Tribal house to mark Huna Tlingit connection to Glacier Bay

  22-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A tribal house years in the making will be dedicated on the shores of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a physical acknowledgment that the area known for its rugged beauty is also the homeland of the Huna Tlingit.
  Ceremonies are planned for Thursday at the Huna Tribal House at Barlett Cove. Officials also plan to livestream the festivities. An open house is scheduled for Saturday.
  According to the park service and Hoonah Indian Association, the building will be the first
  
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• Juneau Assembly to vote on equal rights ordinance

  22-08-2016 21:37 via ktoo.org
  
  At Monday’s Juneau Assembly meeting, members are slated to make their final vote on an equal rights ordinance.
  The ordinance would create protections against discrimination for people in Juneau based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in housing, employment and public accommodations.
  Gender identity is how a person identifies with their biological sex, and gender expression is how they express their identity externally—through clothing or hairstyles.
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• Tribal leader optimistic after State Department, EPA meeting

  22-08-2016 21:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal organization said this month’s meetings with the U.S. State Department and Environmental Protection Agency were productive.
  Among other things, the agencies could help expand water-monitoring efforts along transboundary rivers.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/08/19MineFolo.mp3Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson. (Photo courtesy CCTHITA)
  The 30,000-member Central Council of Tling
  
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• Anchorage police seek 2 men suspected of kidnapping woman

  22-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police continue to seek two men on kidnapping charges and say one suspect may be in Fairbanks.
  Police over the weekend asked for help in finding William Burgess, 18, and Serge Azede, 24.
  Police said Burgess late Aug. 14 approached a car with two women, ordered one at gunpoint to exit and drove off with the other, an acquaintance.
  Burgess drove the woman to another location and forced her into a vehicle occupied by Azede and Jean Vagao, 19, police said.
  The woman was a
  
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• Speedo cancels sponsorship deal with Ryan Lochte

  22-08-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Ryan Lochte competes in the men’s 200-meter individual medley final at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 11. A couple of days later, he reported he had been robbed at a local gas station — a story that turned out to be false. Now Speedo, one of his major sponsors, says it’s dropping him. (Photo by
  Michael Sohn/Associated Press)
  Saying it can’t condone Ryan Lochte’s behavior during Rio’s Summer Olympics, swimwear company Speedo is ending its sponsor
  
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• Fairbanks to take sides on Denali park wolf hunting

  22-08-2016 11:00 via ktoo.org
  FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks officials are weighing in on a statewide dispute about wolf hunting rules near Denali National Park.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that a resolution brought by Fairbanks North Star Borough Assemblyman Van Lawrence urges Gov. Bill Walker to halt wolf hunting and trapping near a boundary on the park’s northeast side. The Assembly will consider the resolution Thursday.
  The yearslong debate over wolf hunting comes as the park’s wolf population has bee
  
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• Red Carpet Concert: Stephen Qacung Blanchett

  22-08-2016 09:47 via ktoo.org
  
  The latest Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert video features songwriter Stephen Qacung Blanchett of the Tribal Funk band Pamyua. He performs his song “Listen to the Stories” in a studio shared by Rico Worland Christy NaMee Eriksen who curated the eight-part series.The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with Lily Hope, Silver Jackson, and Whiskey Class.
  
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• Juneau police give retailers tips on stopping shoplifters

  22-08-2016 09:09 via ktoo.org
  
  Officer Ken Colon taught a group of retail workers how to prevent theft from their stores on Friday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  “Greet your customer.”
  That’s the most important piece of advice Juneau police Officer Ken Colon wanted his audience to remember at the end of his presentation on Friday. He was meeting with nearly 20 people in the backroom of Alaskan Dames, a consignment shop in the Mendenhall Valley.
  “Shoplifters, they do not like being greeted. It h
  
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• University of Alaska to introduce first doctoral program

  22-08-2016 06:12 via ktoo.org
  Alaska’s first doctoral pharmacy program is near its debut at the University of Alaska Anchorage through a partnership with Idaho State University.
  KTUU-TV reports the program launching Monday allows students pursuing doctorates in pharmacy to stay in Alaska to finish their degrees.
  Assistant dean Tom Wadsworth said the program will help bridge a gap in rural areas where communities have trouble finding enough pharmacists.
  He said that students who want a degree in pharmacy will no longer
  
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• Homeless advocates take fist-bumping world record

  22-08-2016 06:12 via ktoo.org
  Three hundred people in Alaska looking to raise awareness of homelessness are the new world record holders in fist-bumping.
  KTVA-TV reports a Guinness World Records representative verified each of the fist bumps passed along a line of registered participants in a fenced-off area Saturday.
  An improper fist bump could have meant disqualification.
  The United Way of Anchorage organized the event. Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, Alaska First Lady Donna Walker and people who work with homeless youth were among
  
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• $20 million grant to benefit Native health

  22-08-2016 06:12 via ktoo.org
  Montana State University and its partners have received $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address health disparities facing Native communities in Montana and Alaska.
  University officials say the new American Indian-Alaska Native Clinical and Translational Research Program includes collaborators from Blackfeet Community College, the University of Montana, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the University of Alaska-Anchorage, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and th
  
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• U.S. Army Soldier Wins Olympic Silver, Loses Silver, Gets Silver Back

  22-08-2016 06:03 via ktoo.org
  
  American Paul Chelimo (left), a member of the U.S. Army, celebrates his silver medal in the men’s 5,000 meters along with the winner, Mo Farah of Britain. Chelimo was disqualified shortly afterward, but his second-place finish was later reinstated.
  Matt Slocum/AP
  Paul Chelimo’s tale about becoming a U.S. Olympian is unusual, and the story behind his silver medal performance in the men’s 5,000 meters is stranger still.
  We’ll work backwards, starting with his race in Rio on
  
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• Louisiana Takes Stock Of The Damage After Devastating Flooding

  22-08-2016 06:03 via ktoo.org
  
  Daniel Stover, 17, moves a boat of personal belongings from a friend’s flooded home in Sorrento, La., on Saturday.
  Max Becherer/AP
  Louisiana is entering recovery mode after devastating flooding killed 13 people and damaged at least 60,000 homes across 20 parishes.
  But as Louisana Gov. John Bel Edwards told CNN, that process is “going to take many months.” He added that even though this flooding was “unprecedented and historic,” many are “just now realizing how
  
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• Iraq Executes 36 Accused Of Slaying More Than A Thousand Iraqi Soldiers

  22-08-2016 06:03 via ktoo.org
  
  An Iraqi man prays in 2015 for his slain relative, at the site of a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base, in Tikrit, Iraq.
  Khalid Mohammed/AP
  Iraq has executed 36 people accused of participating in the ISIS massacre of more than a thousand Iraqi troops in 2014.
  As NPR’s Alison Meuse told our Newscast unit, that massacre happened when ISIS, a Sunni extremist group, overran a former
  
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• Department of Defense wants better, smarter military health care

  22-08-2016 06:03 via ktoo.org
  
  The Department of Defense is in the middle of a massive makeover in how it provides health care to soldiers and their families. The top official in charge of the new Defense Health Agency came to Alaska for her first visit. She spoke about how the military wants to provide care that’s not only better but smarter.
  Inside a conference room at the hospital on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Raquel Bono is warm and casual. So much so that her assistant slides her a note:
  Rear Admiral Raq
  
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