Business
January 14, 2020
Delta Air Lines launched its new line of uniforms for all its employees during a fashion show at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2018.

Delta uniforms build wedge between airline and flight attendants

Skin, breathing and other health issues linked to the airline's uniforms have prompted two class action lawsuits. As many as 3,000 flight attendants have reported problems.
Nation
January 13, 2020
Man rescued after weeks in sub-zero temperatures

Man rescued after weeks in sub-zero temperatures

Tyson Steele, 30, was picked in what appeared to be good health at his remote homestead in Alaska weeks after his cabin burned down.
Local
January 13, 2020
Husband John Bessler and daughter Abigail were at her side when Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced her presidential bid.

Klobuchar's campaign spouse keeps a steady, low-key style

Law professor John Bessler is emerging as a familiar face in early voting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, becoming something of a secret weapon in his wife's presidential campaign.
Nation
January 11, 2020
Drone footage shows tornado damage in Louisiana

Drone footage shows tornado damage in Louisiana

The winds were so strong that a home where a couple were found dead was moved 200 feet from its foundation.
Business
January 11, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in downtown Washington, D.C.

U.S. House directs EPA to declare 'forever chemicals' hazardous

Under the bill, the EPA would take action on PFOA and PFOS now and have five years to decide on all PFAS. The White House has indicated President Donald Trump would veto the measure, if the Senate even takes it up.
Nation
January 10, 2020
100 miles of border wall built, U.S. officials say

100 miles of border wall built, U.S. officials say

Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and other officials were in Yuma, Arizona on Friday to tout the 100th mile of border fencing construction completed along the border with Mexico.
West Metro
January 10, 2020
The entrance to Mall of America's new wing.

Mass. professor fired after suggesting Iran should add Mall of America to cultural targets

A faculty member was ousted from his job earlier this week for posting on Facebook and urging Iran to tweet potential targets to bomb in the United States.
Nation
January 10, 2020
A Boeing 737 MAX airplane being built for United Airlines is worked on next to the runway at the Renton Municipal Airport on Nov. 7, 2018.

Boeing employees mocked FAA and 'clowns' who designed 737 Max

The company expressed regret at the embarrassing communications it sent to investigators on Thursday, which included a comment that "this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys."
Nation
January 10, 2020
Attacks put focus on Chicago's urban coyotes

Attacks put focus on Chicago's urban coyotes

Authorities on Thursday were on the hunt for coyotes in downtown Chicago after two reported attacks, including one where passersby said they had to pull a wild canine off of a 6-year-old boy who was bitten in the head.
Nation
January 9, 2020
Two-year-old Zariah Senior smiles in her Boynton Beach home on Dec. 9, 2019. She is wearing the same shirt she wore on the day she and her siblings we

Foster care adoptions reach record high

Toll of the opioid crisis on children is still high.
Local
January 8, 2020
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip at a hospital in Durham, N.C. According

Record drop in U.S. cancer death rate may reflect a series of treatment breakthroughs

Screenings plus innovative therapies have helped push cancer death rates to historic lows.
Nation
January 8, 2020
Report: Biggest one-year cancer death rate decline

Report: Biggest one-year cancer death rate decline

Researchers are reporting the largest-ever one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, and they are crediting advances in the treatment of lung tumors.
Nation
January 8, 2020
President Donald Trump during a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesd

Watch live: President Trump addresses the nation

Nation
January 8, 2020
Stabbings, shootings, assaults weigh on US Jewish youth

Stabbings, shootings, assaults weigh on US Jewish youth

Many young Jewish people are searching for ways to cope with an alarming string of recent anti-Semitic attacks across the country.
Nation
January 7, 2020
In May, Johnson & Johnson said it would stop selling baby powder in the U.S. and Canada.

Study casts doubt that baby powder raises cancer risk

Local
January 5, 2020
Yvonne Herzan gets emotional every time she rubs a Celtic symbol for "breath" on her wrist, the same tattoo her daughter Sarah Riviere Herzan got befo

Families of Minnesota Guard members watch and hope as U.S., Iran tensions rise

Thousands of relatives and friends of soldiers anxiously await the next development, hoping hostilities ease and their loved ones stay safe.
Nation
January 4, 2020
This photo provided by the U.S. Army, two 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers rest before deploying to the U.S. Central Comma

U.S. service members, families await deployments

Almost 3,000 troops based at Fort Bragg will be leaving soon for Kuwait.
Minneapolis
January 4, 2020

Anti-war protests held in large cities throughout the U.S.

A Minneapolis protest was held in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside area after the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike Friday, escalating the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.
Nation
January 3, 2020
Trump plan to curb teen vaping spares some flavors

Trump plan to curb teen vaping spares some flavors

U.S. health officials will ban most flavored e-cigarettes popular with underage teenagers, but with major exceptions that benefit vaping manufacturers, retailers and adults who use the nicotine-emitting devices.
Nation
January 2, 2020
Home falls down sandy bluff along Lake Michigan

Home falls down sandy bluff along Lake Michigan

A small home along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion.

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