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☆ A Soldier’s Final Journey Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Kenny Holston | Photographs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“This is what they sent us,” Oneida Sanders said, kneeling beside a heavy wooden chest in her living room. “These are Kennedy’s things.”Sgt. Kennedy Sanders’s belongings were shipped home to her parents after she was killed: Dog tags, identification cards, Polaroids of her family. Gold jewelry and a quarter that appeared to be stained with blood. The items offered a glimpse into the person, soldier and daughter that Kennedy was and who she had hoped to become.

Persons: ” Oneida Sanders, Sgt, Kennedy

☆ Washington, DC: 2 suspects arrested in shooting of off-duty police officer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Christina Zdanowicz | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An off-duty police officer was shot at and injured Monday while en route to work in Washington, DC, and two suspects have been taken into custody, the police chief said. The police officer is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said in a news conference Monday afternoon. The officer was shot in the area of 7th Street and Oneida Place in Northwest DC, police said, a residential, tree-lined street near a church. Police spokesman Paris Lewbel initially told CNN a Metropolitan Police Department officer had been shot in Washington, DC. It didn’t necessarily have to be a Metropolitan Police Department officer,” Smith said.

Persons: Pamela Smith, ” Smith, “, ”, Paris Lewbel Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Police Department, Oneida, Northwest DC, Police Locations: Washington ,, Northwest, Maryland, Washington , DC, Landover , Maryland

☆ 10 fascinating facts about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has a company tattoo and dozens of direct reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang is on track to be one of the richest people in the world. Here are 10 surprising facts about Huang, from his Nvidia tattoo to his staggering number of direct reports. AdvertisementJensen Huang, the CEO and cofounder of Nvidia, is leading the charge towards an AI future — with his company making billions. He has a tattoo of Nvidia's logo on his shoulderNvidia founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang displays his tattoo in September 2010. "The more direct reports the CEO has, the less layers are in the company," Huang said during an interview at the 2023 DealBook Summit.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Huang, —, who's, it's, Lori, Chris Malochowsky, Curtis Priem, Robert Galbraith, you've, Fortune, Noah Berger, what's, He's, he'll, Jackie Chan Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Oneida Baptist Institute in, Wired, NPR, Oregon State University, HP, Stanford, New York Times, Wilson Jackets, New Yorker, Yorker, New York Times DealBook Locations: Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky, California, Shutterstock

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone attack while deployed to the Middle East. Kennedy Sanders was held in the packed 1,200-seat auditorium of Ware County Middle School in Waycross. The soldiers were among three members of their Army Reserve unit who died Jan. 28 in a drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan near the Syrian border. According to the Army Reserve, Moffett and Sanders both enlisted in 2019 as construction engineers who use bulldozers and other heavy equipment to clear roads and construction sites. She joined the Army Reserve after graduating from Windsor Forest High School, where she had been a drum major and JROTC cadet.

Persons: Kennedy Sanders, Sanders, Col, Jeffrey Dulgarian, “, ” Sanders, Mandy Lingenfelter, ” Lingenfelter, Jesus, Breonna Moffett, Moffett’s, Jan, William Jerome Rivers, Moffett's, Francine Moffett, Moffett, children's, Oneida Oliver Organizations: Army Reserve, Ware County Middle School, Atlanta Journal, Gators, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Moffett, Palsy, Windsor Forest High School, Hamas Locations: Georgia, Ware, Waycross, Ware County, Savannah, U.S, Jordan, Syrian, Carrollton, Fort Moore, Iran, Israel, Syria

When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. After it opened in 1879 in an old Army barracks, thousands of Native American children were sent by train and stagecoach to Carlisle. In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet secretary, has pushed the government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools. At least 500 children died at some of the schools, including Carlisle.

Persons: Samuel Gilbert, Edward Hensley, Samuel, Edward, weren't, Jan, ”, Greg Werkheiser, Richard Henry Pratt, Jim Thorpe, —, Deb Haaland, “, Beth Wright Organizations: Nebraska, Army, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, “, Cultural Heritage Partners, Department of Interior, War Department, Medical Field Service School, American, Protection, United States Congress, Interior, Native American, Native American Rights Fund Locations: Pennsylvania, Winnebago, Carlisle, Nebraska, Servicemembers, Lake, Washoe, Umpqua, Ute, Rosebud Sioux, Northern Arapaho, Blackfeet, Oglala Sioux, Oneida, Omaha, Modoc , Iowa

☆ The bosses of rival chip giants Nvidia and AMD are cousins, researcher says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are first cousins once removed. It has recently emerged that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are first cousins once removed, with 60-year-old Huang being the older cousin. Nvidia and AMD did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours. The genealogist — a person who traces lines of family descent — published a condensed family tree on her Facebook account in June. Wu also interviewed a close family member of the two while putting together the family tree, per CNN.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Su's, —, Huang, Su, Huang's, Jean Wu, It's, Wu, Jensen Organizations: Nvidia, Service, AMD, CNN, Consumer Technology Association webinar, Oneida Baptist Institute, Oregon State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Devices, IBM, Freescale Semiconductor Locations: Taiwan, Taiwanese, Taipei, Thailand, Washington, Kentucky, Tainan, New York

☆ Lacrosse Is Coming to the Olympics. Will Its Inventors Be There?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Victor Mather | More About Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At major lacrosse events, a team of Native Americans called the Haudenosaunee plays alongside countries like the United States, Canada and Australia. Now lacrosse has achieved an international breakthrough by being added to the Olympics for the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028. And both the United States and Canada already have lacrosse teams of their own. Although lacrosse officials seemed eager to find a way to get the team to the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee, which will have the final say, had discouraging words, at least for now. It said the United States and Canada would be able to include athletes from the Haudenosaunee in their respective teams.

Organizations: Olympics, Summer Games, International Olympic Committee, United Nations, Olympic Locations: United States, Canada, Australia, Los Angeles, New York, Ontario, Quebec, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, United

☆ The Supreme Court preserved the Indian Child Welfare Act, giving tribal families preference in Native American adoptions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday preserving the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law aims to keep Native American kids in tribal families in foster care and adoption cases. This was the third time the Supreme Court has taken up a case on the IWCA. In the not-so-distant past, Native children were stolen from the arms of the people who loved them," Biden said in a statement. Matthew McGill, who represented the Brackeens at the Supreme Court, said he would press a racial discrimination claim in state court.

Persons: —, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Alito, Chuck Hoskin, Charles Martin, Tehassi Hill, Guy Capoeman, Joe Biden, Biden, Chad, Jennifer Brackeen, Fort Worth , Texas —, Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, Matthew McGill, McGill Organizations: Indian Child Welfare, Service, WASHINGTON, Republican, Child Welfare, Cherokee Nation, Morongo, Mission, Oneida, Quinault Indian Nation, Democratic, Navajo, Supreme Locations: Quinault, Delaware, Alaska, Texas, Fort Worth , Texas, American, Navajo, Southwest, Cherokee, Sur Pueblo

Among the provisions being challenged is one that gives a preference to Native Americans seeking to foster or adopt Native American children, which those challenging the law say discriminates on the basis of race. The challengers are led by Chad and Jennifer Brackeen — a white evangelical Christian couple who sought to adopt a Native American boy — as well as the states of Texas, Indiana and Louisiana. Tribes have also warned that a ruling striking down provisions of the law on racial discrimination grounds would threaten centuries of law that treat Native American tribes as distinct entities. Both sides appealed to the Supreme Court after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. The Supreme Court has been closely divided in two major recent cases on Native American issues.

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