The nation's sole heavy icebreaker arrived in Antarctica on Monday, following a nearly three-month transit from Seattle; COVID case counts in St. Paul appear to be going down following the island’s largest surge since the start of the pandemic; and the 30-year-old Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed to give tribes a legal avenue for the return of ancestral remains and some cultural objects, but many remains and objects remain in storage and collections of federal agencies and museums.
