More than 405,000 U.S. taxpayers, including President Donald Trump, had their tax records illegally leaked by an IRS contractor to news organizations ProPublica and The New York Times.
On December 21, 2016, the Morton County Sheriff's Department issued an arrest warrant for James “Angry Bird” White, of Cannon Ball, N.D., related to incidents during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
The executive director of North Dakota Businesses United (NDBU) said the “residual impact” of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests of 2016 and 2017 “is division.”
A North Dakota News Cooperative correspondent said his organization has “no position opposing or promoting oil and gas development” in the state after partnering with a group funded by organizations opposing oil and gas development.