U.S. Attorney General Tries To Defuse Tensions Over Dakota Access Pipeline

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday announced attempts by federal officials to help mend fraying relationships in North Dakota between local law enforcement and Dakota Access Pipelineprotesters. With winter weather arriving across the Great Plains and after a spate of violent altercations, Lynch expressed hope that Department of Justice officials could mediate between hundreds of Native Americans that oppose the pipeline and the local officials who’ve asked them to end their demonstr...