By Amy Dalrymple | Editor
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Chairman Jamie Azure speaks at the Tribal Leaders Summit in Bismarck, N.D., on Sept. 10, 2026. (Photo by Jack Dura/North Dakota Monitor)
By Jack Dura
Tribal leaders should support their community’s youth to spur growth and break away from old politics that hinder opportunities, the leader of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians told college students, instructors and other tribal officials Thursday.
Tribal Chairman Jamie Azure said he wanted to break away from that “standard approach” soon after his entry into tribal government as a council member in 2016. He outlined how his tribe worked to engage youth and drive toward goals for the Turtle Mountain community after trainings on strategic planning for Native nations showed why opportunities were lacking.
“We learned that if we are going to move forward as a nation, we needed to start planning on moving forward by using correct data, by using higher education, by showing people that our sovereign nations weren’t just little specks on a map,” Azure told an audience at the 29th Tribal Leaders Summit in Bismarck.
People look out at Manhattan and beyond at One World Observatory at One World Trade Center in New York City. Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance systems built in its aftermath continue to shape how Americans are watched and policed. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
By Amanda Watford
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did more than reshape the nation’s approach to terrorism. They changed the architecture of American intelligence and policing. They expanded how government agencies collect, share and analyze information, and brought national security tools deeper into ordinary law enforcement.
The infrastructure built in the attacks’ aftermath has proved remarkably durable. Joint terrorism task forces and fusion centers brought federal, state and local agencies into closer intelligence-sharing networks. New laws expanded the government’s ability to obtain information. And police departments acquired technologies that once belonged largely to the realm of national security.
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A member of Cass County Vector Control shows mosquito larvae in a testing cup. (Photo provided by Cass County Vector Control)
By Monitor Staff
North Dakota has recorded its first death from the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 2026.
The North Dakota Health and Human Services said in a news release Thursday that the person who died was over 60 years old and lived in southwest North Dakota.
People ages 60 and older, those with underlying health conditions and those who take medications that suppress the immune system are at greatest risk of developing a severe illness, the health agency said
As of Wednesday, 25 human West Nile virus cases have been reported in 14 North Dakota counties. Fourteen people have been hospitalized.
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President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray
A proposal by President Donald Trump to give $5,000 to each American adult if Republicans retain control of the U.S. House and Senate in November would “explode” the national deficit and worsen inflation, according to an analysis issued Thursday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The committee, whose board includes economists, bankers and former elected and administration officials from both political parties, estimates Trump’s plan would cost roughly $1.2 trillion.
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