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Native Americans âleft out in the coldâ under Trump press Biden for action
(Amr Alfiky | The New York Times) Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) speaks to reporters in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 19, 2020 as President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris look on. Haaland is Biden s choice to lead the Interior Department and is the first Native American to be chosen as a cabinet secretary.
By Mark Walker | The New York Times
  | Feb. 19, 2021, 5:01 p.m.
Washington ⢠When President Joe Biden introduced Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico as his pick for interior secretary, making her the first Native American to be selected for a Cabinet position, he acknowledged the countryâs long history of failing the landâs first citizens.
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SALT LAKE CITY With the Utah Legislature marking the midpoint of its annual 45-day session, the issue of regulating centers for troubled teens got a high-profile boost when celebrity Paris Hilton testified on Capitol Hill about her time spent in such a facility in Provo.
Sitting in front of a panel of Utah lawmakers on Monday, Hilton said she’s had the same nightmare for the past 20 years in which she’s “kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip searched and locked in a facility.”
Hilton and other “survivors of the troubled-teen industry” gave chilling testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee in support of SB127, sponsored by Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork. The bill would require treatment centers to document instances of physical restraints and involuntary confinement and submit monthly reports to the Utah Office of Licensing. It wou