Business
December 7, 2016
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee h

Senate panel questions benefit for consumers in AT&T-Time Warner deal

Senators were skeptical of the claim by the CEOS of the two companies that their megadeal would result in lower prices.
Business
December 7, 2016

Senate passes 21st Century Cures Act; bill heads to Obama

The bill makes changes in regulatory review and helps to finance research.
Variety
December 7, 2016
FILE -- Marijuana being cut in Covelo, Calif., Oct. 18, 2016. Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana Tuesday, increasing t

More baby boomers are getting high

Celebrities
December 7, 2016
Meteorologist Kait Parker knocked Breitbart in a video posted by the Weather Channel.

Weather Channel rips Breitbart: 'Stop using our video to mislead' people

The Weather Channel called out Breitbart News for being climate change deniers, asking the conservative blog to stop using its videos to back up its points.
Local
December 7, 2016
Band members designed parade performances on the WWII theme of "Heroes," with flag bearers wearing 1940s-inspired dresses and curls and including re-e

LIVE: Minn. high school band performs at Pearl Harbor ceremony in Hawaii

More than 80 students from Kerkhoven Murdock Sunburg High School will represent the state.
West Metro
December 7, 2016
Vern Luettinger, 96, was a radio man on the USS California at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Here, Vern is reflected in a framed collection of medals a

Pearl Harbor survivors are fading, but memory of that day still sharp

On Dec. 7, 1941, Vern Luettinger was serving on the USS California. Today, the Richfield man is likely one of only three survivors to be living in Minnesota.
Nation
December 6, 2016
Lightning over downtown Minneapolis during a thunderstorm.

Climate change will intensify storms in U.S., study says

Heavy rainstorms may become more frequent. The biggest increase would be in the Northeast and the Gulf Coast.
Nation
December 6, 2016
President Barack Obama

Obama to defend counterterrorism legacy in last national security speech

Nation
December 6, 2016
Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the president-electís pick for National Security Adviser, arrives at Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Nov.

Trump's national security pick has pushed Clinton conspiracy theories

Business
December 6, 2016
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar.

Senate vote clears way for 21st Century Cures Act

Local
December 5, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos spoke at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in February.

Breitbart speaker's visit this month to NDSU suddenly canceled

Campus College Republican group cites worries about disruption.
Nation
December 5, 2016
Raw: United Airlines plane collapses at airport

Raw: United Airlines plane collapses at airport

A United Airlines plane on Sunday landed in San Antonio, Texas, after its nose gear collapsed, with no serious injuries of passengers.
Nation
December 5, 2016
D.C. pizzeria shooting blamed on fake news story

D.C. pizzeria shooting blamed on fake news story

A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.
Nation
December 5, 2016

Army Corps of Engineers puts Dakota Pipeline on hold

The US Army Corps of Engineers told the company building a North Dakota oil pipeline that it cannot extend the project beneath a reservoir. Protesters claimed a victory, while the company building the project called the decision political.
Nation
December 5, 2016
Oakland warehouse fire death toll climbs, includes teens

Oakland warehouse fire death toll climbs, includes teens

The death toll from a fire in Oakland, California that tore through a warehouse hosting a late-night dance party climbed to 33 on Sunday as firefighters combed through rubble and made the grim announcement that teenagers were among the dead.
Nation
December 4, 2016

Obamas host their last Kennedy Center honors

The president and First Lady received a long ovation at the awards.
Nation
December 4, 2016

Mistakenly profiled Yemeni prisoner freed after 14 years at Guantanamo

The U.S. military has delivered a long-held Yemeni captive to resettlement in the African archipelago of Cape Verde. He was never charged with a crime.
Nation
December 4, 2016
Friends fear loss of loved ones in Oakland fire

Friends fear loss of loved ones in Oakland fire

Panicked friends and family came to the scene of the warehouse fire in Oakland, California, trying to find out if their loved ones were among the dead.
Business
December 3, 2016
In this Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 photo, Mike and Michelle Deschaaf, owners of 1936 Meadowbrook Farm in Benton Harbor, Mich., show off a mangalitsa piglet

Farmers resist laws governing animal welfare practices

They say the confinement practices are efficient, safe.
Local
December 3, 2016
Prof. Bosco Tjan.

USC professor stabbed to death began his career in Minnesota

Bosco Tjan of the University of Southern California was fatally stabbed on Friday afternoon in the building that houses his lab.

National news

Latest breaking news and feature coverage of the nation today.