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Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence

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Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence

Hundreds of counterprotesters far outnumber conservative influencer Jake Lang’s group of fewer than a dozen people protesting Islam, as skirmishes erupt on Saturday.

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

ICE operations are encroaching on schools and day cares

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

ICE operations are encroaching on schools and day cares

Sarah Ritter/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

City Council meetings are drawing crowds of residents airing their views on ICE operations. City leaders say they’re limited in what they can do.

Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

Boston Scientific, which is growing in Minnesota, is buying California’s Penumbra for $14.5 billion. CEO Mike Mahoney said the deal makes his company a neurovascular leader.

Alex Brandon/The Associated Press

News & Politics

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

Before threatening the Insurrection Act, Trump officials privately strategized about using the Alien Enemies Act to detain people in Chicago, according to Signal messages reviewed by the Star Tribune.

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country.

Politics

Walz, Frey reportedly under investigation by U.S. Department of Justice

News & Politics

Federal judge bars ICE agents from ‘retaliating’ against protesters in Minnesota

News & Politics

Why videos of ICE in Minnesota are a ‘breakthrough moment’ online

News & Politics

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

News & Politics

University of Minnesota offers online classes for students who feel unsafe amid ICE surge

Sarah Ritter/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

City Council meetings are drawing crowds of residents airing their views on ICE operations. City leaders say they’re limited in what they can do.

Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

Boston Scientific, which is growing in Minnesota, is buying California’s Penumbra for $14.5 billion. CEO Mike Mahoney said the deal makes his company a neurovascular leader.

Alex Brandon/The Associated Press

News & Politics

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

Before threatening the Insurrection Act, Trump officials privately strategized about using the Alien Enemies Act to detain people in Chicago, according to Signal messages reviewed by the Star Tribune.

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country.

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Minnesota's best supper clubs

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Greater Minnesota

News & Politics

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Karen Tolkkinen

News & Politics

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Karen Tolkkinen

In greater Minnesota, conservatives are mum about federal secrecy.

News & Politics

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Evan Vucci/The Associated Press

News & Politics

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

News & Politics

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Karen Tolkkinen

News & Politics

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Karen Tolkkinen

In greater Minnesota, conservatives are mum about federal secrecy.

Greater Minnesota

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers

St. Cloud

Man allegedly driving again without license when he hit, killed woman crossing Minnesota road

Agriculture

Willmar bird flu laboratory gets reprieve from USDA funding hit

Outdoors

With bear encounters declining in the BWCAW, officials extend food storage order

Opinion

Commentaries

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Is there more can we do beyond sidewalk patrols, GoFundMe efforts and whistles to make sure our children’s day care teachers stay safe from ICE?

Columnists

Rash: Jerome Powell defends the Fed – and the nation

John Rash

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Columnists

Rash: Jerome Powell defends the Fed – and the nation

John Rash

Readers Write

Readers Write: Supporting immigration enforcement, U.S. Attorney’s office, ICE

Commentaries

Opinion | It’s OK to change what you support

Commentaries

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Is there more can we do beyond sidewalk patrols, GoFundMe efforts and whistles to make sure our children’s day care teachers stay safe from ICE?

Readers Write

Readers Write: Supporting immigration enforcement, U.S. Attorney’s office, ICE

Commentaries

Opinion | It’s OK to change what you support

Strib Voices

Sports

Reusse: Vikings have been treading water in 25 years since ‘41-doughnut’

Patrick Reusse

Sports

Souhan: Boycott the 2026 World Cup

Jim Souhan

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

Strib Varsity

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Against Ogilvie on Friday, Oehrlein surpassed 5,000 career points, becoming on the third player in state history, regardless of gender, to do so.

Strib Varsity

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Chuck Burton

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Against Ogilvie on Friday, Oehrlein surpassed 5,000 career points, becoming on the third player in state history, regardless of gender, to do so.

Food & Culture

Food & Culture

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Food & Culture

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Government offices are closed, but the Minnesota Children’s Museum will be open for a rare Monday.

Music

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

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Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Rob Hubbard

Music

Keep on truckin': 8 ways Twin Cities Deadheads can celebrate Bob Weir

Kyndell Harkness

Music

Keep on truckin': 8 ways Twin Cities Deadheads can celebrate Bob Weir

Food & Culture

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Food & Culture

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Government offices are closed, but the Minnesota Children’s Museum will be open for a rare Monday.

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Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country.

Business

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

Business

ICE subpoenas worker documents from Hennepin County’s public hospital

Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

ICE subpoenas worker documents from Hennepin County’s public hospital

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country.

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Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Keep on truckin': 8 ways Twin Cities Deadheads can celebrate Bob Weir

Forty years in the making: An Eden Prairie house’s subtle age-in-place renovations

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Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence

Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence

How the arrival of thousands of federal agents has shaken Minnesota

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

ICE operations are encroaching on schools and day cares

How the arrival of thousands of federal agents has shaken Minnesota

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

ICE operations are encroaching on schools and day cares

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Walz, Frey reportedly under investigation by U.S. Department of Justice

Federal judge bars ICE agents from ‘retaliating’ against protesters in Minnesota

Why videos of ICE in Minnesota are a ‘breakthrough moment’ online

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

University of Minnesota offers online classes for students who feel unsafe amid ICE surge

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

Editor's Pick

Worry over ICE builds in Twin Cities suburbs as confrontations go viral

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

A big acquisition decades ago almost broke Boston Scientific. Its CEO says this time is different.

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

How Trump is leaning on arcane laws to advance immigration agenda

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Minnesota's best supper clubs

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers

Man allegedly driving again without license when he hit, killed woman crossing Minnesota road

Willmar bird flu laboratory gets reprieve from USDA funding hit

With bear encounters declining in the BWCAW, officials extend food storage order

Opinion

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Rash: Jerome Powell defends the Fed – and the nation

Rash: Jerome Powell defends the Fed – and the nation

Readers Write: Supporting immigration enforcement, U.S. Attorney’s office, ICE

Opinion | It’s OK to change what you support

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Opinion | White parents, are we doing enough?

Readers Write: Supporting immigration enforcement, U.S. Attorney’s office, ICE

Opinion | It’s OK to change what you support

Strib Voices

Reusse: Vikings have been treading water in 25 years since ‘41-doughnut’

Souhan: Boycott the 2026 World Cup

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Top 25: Don’t call it an upset … it's just Class 4A basketball

Talking hockey: Why the sport is so unique on the border in International Falls

Twenty athletes who defined Minnesota high school wrestling the past 25 years

What are Shattuck-St. Mary’s secrets? Meet the man who knows them all

Food & Culture

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Most Twin Cities parking meters free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, most stores open

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO