Nation
July 18, 2016

RNC speakers schedule for Tuesday, July 19

Nation
July 17, 2016

GOP convention schedule

Nation
July 17, 2016

10 questions that could decide impact of Trump convention

Nation
July 17, 2016

Divided high court may mean varied voter ID outcomes by state

Divided court may mean varied outcomes by state.
Nation
July 16, 2016
The wind whips the waters of Lake Michigan in the U.P as a freighter crawls by on the horizon. ORG XMIT: MIN2014062815413541

Here's why Lake Michigan is the deadliest Great Lake

Drownings have increased with many unaware of the dangerous currents.
Business
July 15, 2016

Quick facts about GMOs

Business
July 14, 2016
A non-GMO label pictured on a can of garbanzo beans in Portland, Ore., on March 16, 2016. The U.S. Senate today blocked what opponents called the Deny

House gives thumbs-up to GMO label law; bill goes to Obama

Agriculture Department officials will have two years to determine how to implement labeling rules.
Celebrities
July 14, 2016
Colleen Burns, 35, was a marketing executive for Yelp.

Yelp exec falls 400 feet to her death after slipping at Grand Canyon

Colleen Burns, a 35-year-old marketing executive for Yelp, was hiking in the Grand Canyon with friends when she fell and died on Friday.
Nation
July 13, 2016
The Zika virus, carried mainly by the Aedes mosquito species but also transmitted sexually among humans, has ravaged Puerto Rico, where 2,500 people h

Zika threat expands and worsens, CDC says

TV & Media
July 13, 2016
In this June 12, 2009 file photo, people line to enter the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Holocaust Museum, other solemn sites: Please stop catching Pokemon here

Nation
July 11, 2016

On the campaign trail

Nation
July 11, 2016
In an undated handout photo, Workers at Mount Rushmore. Luigi Del Bianco, the chief carver of the Mount Rushmore monument, was recognized in May by th

Italian immigrant finally gets his due as Rushmore's chief carver

Celebrities
July 9, 2016
The Ashley Madison dating website helps married individuals have secret affairs.

Notorious dating site Ashley Madison was faking it, new leadership admits

Sorry, Josh Duggar; your reputation might have been destroyed for nothing after all. The dating website that helps married people have secret affairs admitted it had been using bots to entice subscribers.
Minneapolis
July 8, 2016
CORRECTS SPELLING TO SHERIE - Sherie Williams, left, and Theresa Williams, center, speak to the media as they leave the Baylor University Medical Cent

Woman shot while shielding son in Dallas has Minneapolis ties

She graduated from Patrick Henry High School in 1995 and studied at MCTC.
July 8, 2016
Beau Solomon is from Spring Green, Wis.

Lawyer: Footage shows US student tried to swim after fall

The lawyer for a homeless man accused of pushing an American student into the Tiber River in Rome says surveillance footage shows the teen tried to swim a few strokes after falling in but was carried off by rapids and quickly disappeared.
Nation
July 7, 2016
In this Tuesday, July 5, 2016 photo made from video, Alton Sterling is held by two Baton Rouge police officers, with one holding a hand gun, outside a

Louisiana officers cleared in prior use of force complaints

Four previous "use of force" complaints were lodged against the two white police officers in the video-recorded shooting death of a black man and they were cleared in all of them, according to internal affairs documents released Thursday.
Nation
July 7, 2016

Fatal police shootings have increased since Ferguson

Politics
July 7, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie speaks to the Westside Conservative Club at Machine Shed restaurant in Des Moines, Iowa, on Mond

Judge: Bridge defendants can't get Gov. Christie's cellphone

A judge on Thursday barred two former allies of Gov. Chris Christie charged in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case from gaining access to the cellphone he used as the scandal unfolded, a ruling that settled, if only temporarily, a dispute that has become acrimonious in recent months.
Nation
July 6, 2016
People march outside the Triple S convenience store in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Alton Sterling was shot and killed outside the store

Feds open civil rights investigation in Louisiana shooting

In a swift move by authorities to keep tensions from boiling over, the U.S. Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the video-recorded killing of a black man who was shot as he scuffled with two white police officers on the pavement outside a convenience store.
Celebrities
July 6, 2016
Read the complete lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson against Fox head Roger Ailes

Read the complete lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson against Fox head Roger Ailes

In the lawsuit, Carlson, a Minnesota native, accuses Roger Ailes of sexual harassment.

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