WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The 25th Navajo Nation Council will convene for the 2025 Winter Council Session Jan. 27 at 10 am in the Council Chamber, located in the nation’s capital of Window Rock, Ariz.

“The 25th Navajo Nation Council welcomes all visitors to the People’s House to take part in the 2025 Winter Council Session,” Crystalyne Curley, Speaker of the 25th Navajo Nation Council, said in a Jan. 24 press release. “Winter serves as a season for reflection and planning, and during this session, the Council will address key legislations that affect the well-being of our tribal members. It’s a time for unity, so we invite everyone to join us in this important legislative...

The Justice Department and FBI announced a multi-month law enforcement operation that, alongside international partners, deleted “PlugX” malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide Jan. 14.

As described in court documents unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a group of hackers sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, known to the private sector as “Mustang Panda” and “Twill Typhoon,” used a version of PlugX malware to infect, control, and steal information from victim computers.

According to court documents, the PRC government paid the Mustang Panda group to, among other computer intrusion services, develop this specific version of PlugX. Since...

ALBUQUERQUE — A Gallup man pleaded guilty Jan. 21 in federal court to shooting and seriously injuring another man during a confrontation on the Navajo reservation in 2024.

According to court documents, on Jan. 22, 2024, Arthur Chee Pat, 69, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, heard a commotion near his residence in Gallup and drove to investigate. Upon arriving at a man's residence, where his son and three other men were gathered, Pat retrieved a firearm from his vehicle. He then fired three gunshots in the direction of one man and two more towards the victim, striking him once in the knee.

After the shooting, Pat fled the scene with his son. The victim was initially...

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program released "Violence Against American Indian or Alaska Native Females, 2021-2023 Special Report" on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov.

This special report posted Jan. 14 examines violent and sexual crimes committed against victims reported as American Indian or Alaska Native women to the FBI’s UCR Program. This does not mean the offenses occurred on tribal lands.

This study uses National Incident-Based Reporting System data from 2021 to 2023 about female victims of violent and sexual offenses who are American Indian and Alaska Native and their relationship to the offender, weapons used against the victims, their...