World
October 20, 2017
Drone video shows devastation in Raqqa

Drone video shows devastation in Raqqa

Drone video from Raqqa, Syria shows neighborhoods reduced to rubble and few signs of civilian life. Kurdish-led forces announced on Thursday that they had driven Islamic State militants out after weeks of fighting.
October 18, 2017
Lead singer Gord Downie is seen performing on a screen as a man watches during a viewing party for the final stop in Kingston, Ontario, from Vancouver

Gord Downie, lead singer of The Tragically Hip, has died

Gord Downie, who made himself part of Canada's national identity with songs about hockey and small towns as lead singer and songwriter of iconic rock band The Tragically Hip, has died at age 53 after a battle with brain cancer.
Minneapolis
October 17, 2017

Somali community leaders announce fundraising for Mogadishu victims

Mosques will collect money to help those affected by the bombing.
World
October 15, 2017

Taliban says fighters didn't rape U.S. hostage or kill baby

The Taliban on Sunday denied an assertion by a freed Canadian hostage that his American wife had been raped during their five years of captivity and that their infant had been killed by the Haqqani network, a brutal arm of the Afghan insurgency.
Local
October 14, 2017
The University of Minnesota's newest regents professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain taught a law-school class called "Laws of War," at Walter Mondale Hall, Tue

University of Minnesota law professor takes rights battle to global stage

U professor takes her defense of civil liberties to global stage.
World
October 14, 2017
Police: Truck bomb kills 20 in Somalia's capital

Police: Truck bomb kills 20 in Somalia's capital

A huge explosion from a truck bomb killed 20 people in Somalia's capital, police said Saturday, as shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they'd heard in years.
World
October 14, 2017
Joshua Boyle, center, is escorted by authorities to a media availability at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Boyle, his

Hostage freed from Afghanistan says he'll continue to fight 'injustice' in world

US-Canadian couple Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle landed in Canada late Friday, five years after they were kidnapped in Afghanistan. AP Reporter Martin Benedyk briefly spoke to the couple during their flight home
October 13, 2017
FILE - In this June 4, 2014 file photo, mother's Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold a photo of their married children, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Co

Kidnapped, held 5 years, US-Canadian family free in Pakistan

Five years after they were seized by a terrorist network in the mountains of Afghanistan, an American woman, her Canadian husband and their children — all three born in captivity — are free after a dramatic rescue orchestrated by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, officials said Thursday.
World
October 12, 2017
Spanish military personnel march in a military parade during the national holiday known as "Dia de la Hispanidad" or Hispanic Day, in Madrid, Spain, T

Catalan leader given deadline to decide region's path

Monday deadline to clarify independence declaration.
World
October 12, 2017
What Americans heard during Cuba sonic attacks

What Americans heard during Cuba sonic attacks

The Associated Press obtained a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. The recording of a high-pitched noise is one of many taken in Cuba since attacks started.
World
October 10, 2017

World Health Organization says there are 124 million obese children worldwide

WHO alarmed by tenfold increase in past 40 years.
Nation
October 10, 2017
This is the buoy before it was hauled off the beach into the park office's parking lot. (Photo courtesy Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park)

Buoy shrouded in Soviet-Cuban mystery drifts to Florida after hurricane

Nation
October 8, 2017
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2015, file photo, participants in the Columbus Day Parade ride a float with a large bust of Christopher Columbus in New York.

Indigenous Peoples Day? Some Italian-Americans say stick with Columbus

Nation
October 5, 2017

Questions surround killing of elite U.S. troops in Niger

Home & Garden
October 1, 2017

Puerto Rico trip canceled for Minnesota law enforcement volunteers

World
September 30, 2017
People listen to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a rally in Orenburg, 1400 kilometres (875 miles) east from Moscow, Russia, Saturday,

Moscow to deploy facial-recognition technology

Surveillance measure meant to boost security.
World
September 30, 2017
Personnel of the American Embassy in Havana inspect the damage caused by Hurricane Irma to the embassy property, in Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 10 2017. Power

Lawmakers call for swift, apolitical fix in Cuba attacks

West Metro
September 30, 2017
Johannes Marliem

Amid Indonesian graft probe, Minn. man kills self after FBI standoff

Johannes Marliem feared for his life after talking to authorities.
September 29, 2017
In a string of mysterious "health attacks" on U.S. diplomats in Cuba, the incidents were narrowly confined within specific rooms, including at the Hot

US to Americans: Stay away from Cuba after health 'attacks'

The United States delivered an ominous warning to Americans on Friday to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the U.S. diplomatic corps, acknowledging neither the Cubans nor America's FBI can figure out who or what is responsible for months of mysterious health ailments.
World
September 29, 2017
Scores dead in stampede at India train station

Scores dead in stampede at India train station

A stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing at least 22 people and injuring another 32, officials said.

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