South Dakota Passes First Law That Will Force Trans Kids to Detransition
South Dakota is now the first state to pass legislation that would effectively force trans kids to detransition. The legislation, which marks the second state this year to attack healthcare for trans people, bans all gender-affirming care for patients under 18 years of age.
news.yahoo.comIn South Dakota Senate, far-right lawmakers rankle GOP
It suddenly spiraled as the senator allegedly harassed the aide because she had vaccinated her young child, plunging the Senate into a political drama that has divided South Dakota's Republican Party. The Senate, where lawmakers pride themselves on a genteel code of conduct as they work from wooden desks that have been there for generations, has seemed largely insulated from the forces roiling the wider GOP.
news.yahoo.comSouth Dakota Gov. Noem threatens charges for abortion pills
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, along with the state's Republican attorney general, said Tuesday the state will prosecute pharmacists who dispense abortion-inducing pills following a recent Food and Drug Administration rule change that broadens access to the pills. The Republican governor and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released a letter to South Dakota pharmacists saying they are โsubject to felony prosecutionโ if they procure or dispense abortion-inducing drugs. โSouth Dakota will continue to enforce all laws including those that respect and protect the lives of the unborn,โ Noem and Jackley said in the letter.
news.yahoo.comSouth Dakota tribe: Storm deaths 'could have been prevented'
Honor Beauvaisโ every breath was a battle as a snowstorm battered the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Honor, whose Lakota name is Yuonihan Ihanble, was pronounced dead last month at the Indian Health Serviceโs hospital on the reservation, one of six deaths that tribal leaders say "could have been prevented" if not for a series of systemic failures. Targets of the frustration include Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, the U.S. Congress, the Indian Health Service and even โ for some โ the tribe itself.
news.yahoo.comGov. Kristi Noem says she would "nudge" GOP governors, including Florida's Ron DeSantis, to do more to restrict abortion
Her comments on abortion, in an interview with CBS News, came days after a top aide criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for "hiding" behind the state's 15-week abortion ban.
cbsnews.comSouth Dakota's Noem tries to convince lawmakers on tax cut
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday will try to win over the Republican-controlled Legislature with details of her plan to enact a historic repeal of the state's tax on groceries. Noem, a Republican, was critical of a proposal to repeal the state grocery tax during the final days of the legislative session in March, but this fall, she changed course and made it a centerpiece of her reelection campaign. It would help alleviate the squeeze of inflation on household budgets, she has argued.
news.yahoo.comHe Flipped Off Kristi Noem in a Viral Photoโand It Cost Him His Job
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FacebookCHAMBERLAIN, South DakotaโA small-town cook who said he was forced into a photo with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem went from flipping pancakes and burgers to flipping the bird in the picture.It made Stefen Monteau an internet sensation in South Dakota for a few daysโand also cost him his job at Main Street Cafe & Market in Chamberlain, S.D. Monteau said he was fired in part because Noemโs campaign team complained about the photo.Noem,
news.yahoo.comDodge, deny or fib: Candidates stay vague on 2024 plans
Presidential aspirants running for reelection while dreaming of the highest office in the land often face an uncomfortable question: Will they commit to serving a full term โ should they win one โ when their best moment to take a shot at the White House may come sooner than that.
South Dakota investigation weighs Noem's use of state plane
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was returning from an official appearance in Rapid City in 2019 when she faced a decision: Overnight in the capital of Pierre, where another trip would start the next day, or head home and see her son attend his high school prom? The Republican governor chose the latter, a decision that eventually cost taxpayers some $3,700 when the state airplane dropped her off near her home and then returned the next day to pick her up. Itโs one of several trips that year where Noem, a potential 2024 White House contender, blurred the lines between official travel and attending either family or political events.
news.yahoo.comGov. Kristi Noem sued over release of travel expense records
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is facing a lawsuit after her office refused to release expense records on five out-of-state trips this year to a liberal watchdog group. American Oversight, an organization that files open records requests and litigation against Republican officials, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Noem, who is in the midst of a reelection campaign and eyeing a bid for the GOP's 2024 presidential ticket. It alleges that the governor's office did not follow the state's open records law by claiming that releasing the records would create a threat to the governor's safety.
news.yahoo.comConservative college's curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota
A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota's social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail. Sent from Hillsdale, Michigan, home to a conservative private college enjoying outsize influence among top Republicans, it contained materials that would ultimately form what the state's public schools students could be expected to learn about American history and civics. โWhoa -- these are already written,โ Nielsen remembers thinking as he opened the document this spring.
news.yahoo.comNoem sought to avoid ethics hearing, seal off records
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal off certain records, documents released Friday by the stateโs Government Accountability Board show. The Republican governor argued in an April motion that the state's attorney general, a fellow Republican who filed the complaint, was out for political retribution and should be removed from the complaint. The South Dakota Legislature's audit committee, controlled by Republicans, unanimously approved a report in May that found Noem's daughter got preferential treatment.
news.yahoo.comBoard: SD Gov. Kristi Noem may have 'engaged in misconductโ
A South Dakota ethics board has found enough information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have โengaged in misconductโ when she intervened in her daughterโs application for a real estate appraiser license to potentially take action against the Republican governor.
South Dakota impeachment trial probing AG's fatal crash
South Dakota senators have begun hearing evidence for the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, whose account of a fatal 2020 traffic accident led criminal investigators, some lawmakers and the victimโs family to question his truthfulness.
NRA stages big gun show in Texas days after school massacre
The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to โreflect onโ โ and deflect any blame for โ the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.