Advocates asked lawmakers for funding and resources for missing and endangered American Indians , Alaska Natives and Indigenous people.

Lawmakers expressed willingness to reach across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions.

Homicide rates among American Indian and Alaska Native people were nearly four times higher than homicide rates for white people.

Massive crowds estimated by the police at 42,000 gathered at Parliament .

Lawmakers want to reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty signed between the British and Indigenous Maori .

Critics see in it a desire to reverse decades of policies aimed to empower Maori , who make up around 20% of population.

John DeLeo enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 and was aboard the USS Missouri when the war ended on Sept. 2, 1945 .

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed held a special medal ceremony at his Cranston office to give him his "overdue" military honors.

He plans to participate in the 80th anniversary commemoration of the surrender in 2025 .

Australia concerned that one in ten cybersecurity incidents last year involved critical infrastructure.

11% of cyber security incidents related to critical infrastructure, including electricity, gas, water, education and transport services.

A quarter were phishing incidents, 21% exploitation of a public-facing interface, and 15% brute-force activities.

California voters reject measure that would have raised minimum wage to nation-high $18 per hour.

Opponents say it would have increased costs, led to higher taxes and pushed businesses to cut jobs.

Current minimum wage rates are $ 16 per hour for most workers and $ 20 in fast-food sector.

Hawaii passed a law in 2022 to gradually increase the statewide minimum wage.

The largest cognitive performance study of professional astronauts to date reveals that while some mental processes slow down during six-month stays on the International Space Station .

Overall cognitive function remains stable with no signs of lasting impairment.

Attention was only affected early in the mission, while processing speed didn’t return to normal until after the astronauts returned to Earth .

Creativity Camp, a two-week arts intervention delivered as a day camp, had a positive impact on mental health and well-being in adolescents with depression.

The idea behind the study is that engaging in the arts offers a pathway for exploring new ways of thinking, developing insights and sparking self-discovery.

WHO authorizes the first mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo .

Mpox, related to smallpox, mostly causes symptoms including fever, rash, lesions and fatigue.

Children are almost four times more likely to die from the newest form of mpox first detected in eastern Congo earlier this year .

The Nuucichthys rhynchocephalus fossil was found in Utah 's Drumian Marjum Formation .

Harvard paleontologists Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and Javier Ortega-Hernández believe it is the first soft-bodied vertebrate from North America’s dino fossil-rich Great Basin .

The fossil shows the evolution of animal life during the Cambrian Explosion .

Babies with Mycoplasma pneumoniae on track to surpass rates for school-age kids.

CDC data shows 7.6% of emergency room cases for babies 0-1 years old and children ages 5-17 years old resulted in diagnoses.

CDC officials had said that this year 's wave could be heralding a return to waves of cases prior to the pandemic.