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Arizona 2nd Congressional District Republican Rep. Eli Crane waves to supporters as he is introduced by Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Republican U.S. Rep. Eli Crane wins second term in vast Arizona congressional district

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A sign urging safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic is displayed in Teesto, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation on Feb. 11, 2021. The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that has been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, fulfilling a pledge that new tribal President Buu Nygren made while campaigning for the office. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)

Navajo Nation rescinds mask mandate on vast reservation

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

Buu Nygren announces his win for the Navajo Nation president as he reads tabulated votes from chapter houses across the reservation at his campaign's watch party at the Navajo Nation fairgrounds in Window Rock, Ariz., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Nygren will be sworn in Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, as the next president of the vast Navajo Nation. It's a job that will test his ability to make good on promises to deliver water, electricity, and broadband to the tens of thousands who don't have it. (AP Photo/William C. Weaver IV, File)

Nygren to be sworn in as next Navajo Nation president

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

FILE - In this 2013 photo, Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval talks about his experiences in the military in Cortez, Colo. Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died at age 98. Sandoval died late Friday, July 29, 2022, at a hospital in Shiprock, N.M., his wife, Malula told The Associated Press on Saturday. (Sam Green/The Cortez Journal via AP)

Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval dies; 3 left from group

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

FILE—Navajo Presidential candidate Frankie Davis speaks during a Presidential Forum at Arizona State University, Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Phoenix. Davis is among 15 candidates seeking the top leadership post on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Navajos narrow list of 15 presidential hopefuls in primary

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Navajo fight Biden administration’s plan to fence off drilling around New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 21, 1996, file photo, tourists cast their shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)

Navajo Nation opposes New Mexico drilling ban tucked into Biden’s $3.5 trillion bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 22, 2019, file photo, Jill Biden, left, and Tuba City Regional Health Care Corp. CEO Lynette Bonar pose for photos after an event in Flagstaff, Ariz. Biden is traveling to the country's largest Native American reservation, the Navajo Nation, which was hit hard by the coronavirus but is outpacing the U.S. in vaccination rates while maintaining strict pandemic restrictions. The trip, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, April 22-23, 2021, will be Biden's third to the reservation that spans 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Four Corners region, and her inaugural visit as first lady. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)

Jill Biden hears from Navajo women on needs, priorities

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

Navajo president vetoes reopening tribal roads to visitors

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People wait to register themselves to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 at Railway hospital in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, April 10, 2021. India has a seven-day rolling average of more than 100,000 cases per day and has reported 13 million virus cases since the pandemic began, the third-highest total after the United States and Brazil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

The Latest: Romanians protest restrictions as cases top 1M

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2011 file photo visitors view the dramatic bend in the Colorado River at the popular Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in Page, Ariz. Grand Canyon National Park officials tentatively plan to reopen the park's eastern entrance in late May 2021, but there's sentiment in the small northern Arizona city that depends on tourism that sooner would be better. “Our sales tax for this year is down nearly 30% from last year,&quot; Page city manager Darren Coldwell told the Arizona Daily Sun. “Our Horseshoe Bend visitation is down 80%. So when we say that our numbers dropped off the face of the earth, they really did.” (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Push on for reopening of the Grand Canyon’s east entrance

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Navajo woman appointed to Arizona House of Representatives

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FILE - In this March 4, 2015, file photo, then-Rep. Albert Hale, D-St. Michaels, talks at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Hale, who served as the second president of the Navajo Nation in the 1990s, died Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. A cause of death and an exact age for Hale was not immediately available. But tribal officials said Hale was in his early 70s and was battling COVID-19 when the Navajo Nation Council heard of his condition last Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Ex-Navajo Nation president dies of coronavirus complications

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

Navajo Nation Council speaker chosen for second term

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Navajo Nation reports 287 new virus cases, 23 more deaths

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Navajo Nation reports 225 new COVID-19 cases; ICU beds full

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Navajo Nation lawmakers consider extending junk food tax

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Satellite or weather balloon crashes in eastern Arizona

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Navajo judge dismisses lawsuit over tribe’s primary election

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Navajo Nation lawmakers approve casino reopening plan

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press