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California officials, residents brace for power cuts
Millions of people were poised to lose electricity throughout northern and central California after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced Tuesday it would shut off power in the largest preventive outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines.
Business
Major Minnesota firms take separate paths as new round of China tariffs looms
Buyers, such as Target Corp. and Best Buy, scramble to deal with cost increases, while sellers such as Medtronic, Ecolab and Cargill battle to sustain foreign investments.
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Mayo researchers link vaping illness to toxic inhalation
The finding undercuts some theories linking the outbreak of severe lung injuries to marijuana or nicotine.
Business
Judge allows PFAS suit in Ohio to proceed against 3M, other companies
The plaintiff, a firefighter, says he has chemicals in his blood due to his job.
Local
Impeachment push puts centrist Democrat Collin Peterson in the spotlight
He's one of few House Dems to balk at inquiry.
Walmart's Sam's Club launches health care pilot to members
Walmart's Sam's Club is teaming up with several health care companies to offer discounts on routine care that customers might delay or skip because of the cost.
16 St. Cloud Tech students suspended following large fight
Sixteen students at St. Cloud Tech High School have been suspended following a large-scale fight that led to a lockdown.
Nation
'Transcript' of call is not a verbatim record
The "memorandum of telephone conversation" — or "memcon" — resembles a verbatim account, yet memcons are not always word-for-word.
Nation
'Greta': A young climate change activist's moment, praised and criticized
She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. "How dare you?" she kept saying to some of the world's most powerful people. "You are failing us," she told them.
Business
Best Buy expands lease-to-own program, joining growing number of retailers
But Minnesota law bars lease-to-own program for credit-challenged shoppers.
Nation
As immigrant kids fill Worthington's schools; bus driver leads the backlash
Rural Worthington, Minn., has received more unaccompanied minors per capita than almost anywhere else in the country. Don Brink, a 71-year-old semi-retired farmer and school bus driver, is one of the most outspoken opponents of paying for an expansion of the schools.
Nation
Tensions run high as Dallas cop's murder trial begins
She is accused of shooting a man in an apartment she thought was hers.
Nation
Elizabeth Warren leads in new Iowa poll with Joe Biden second
The latest poll numbers from the Des Moines Register and CNN were good for Elizabeth Warren as she and Joe Biden broke away from the rest of the Democratic pack
Walmart to quit selling e-cigarettes amid vaping backlash
Walmart is getting out of the vaping business.
'What is that, man?' Navy confirms videos of flying objects
In one of the videos, a small object streaks across the sky before the U.S. Navy fighter jet's tracking system locks on and follows it.
Moorhead boy, 16, kills S.D. motorist by driving into her car at 100 mph, police say
Police say the death of a Watertown woman who was killed in a crash is being investigated as a homicide.
Nation
Guantanamo Bay costs U.S. $13 million per prisoner
With the world's most expensive detention program taking on a sprawling and permanent feel, the expense is likely to continue far into the future.
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