A South Dakota judge has dismissed a lawsuit that an anti-abortion group filed in June targeting an abortion rights measure that voters went on to reject

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to fill the role of Homeland Security secretary, according to reports on Tuesday.

Attention is already turning to 2026, when South Dakota will elect a new governor as well as hold races for U.S. Senate.

Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with Trump despite differences the two have had over the years.

Voters in South Dakota have rejected a proposal to add protections for abortion rights to the state constitution, preserving a near-total ban there.

According to U-Haul migration data from more than 2 million transactions, more trucks left California than entered in 2020.

The newly-reelected Dusty Johnson describes fellow South Dakotans Kristi Noem and John Thune as quote “tremendous leaders and tremendous patriots.” President-elect Donald Trump picked Noem to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging GOP senators to reject President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because of his views on abortion. In a statement from his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom on Friday, Pence said Kennedy’s nomination “is an abrupt…