Nation
November 24, 2019

Times Square threat mobilizes police

Business
November 22, 2019
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will make $4.8 million available to study the impact of potentially dangerous PFAS.

EPA will offer $4.8 million to study effects of 'forever chemicals'

The agency said it will accept applications through Feb. 11.
Celebrities
November 21, 2019
Mark Ruffalo posing for a portrait to promote his film "Dark Waters" at the Whitby Hotel in New York.

Mark Ruffalo joins campaign raising concerns about chemicals made by 3M

The upcoming movie "Dark Waters," starring Mark Ruffalo, is expected to draw more attention to the dangers of a group of chemicals that firms like 3M Co. have struggled to contain and remediate.
Local
November 20, 2019
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., center speaks as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, left, and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg listen during a Democrati

Amy Klobuchar takes a jab at Pete Buttigieg late in Atlanta debate

Local
November 20, 2019
A moose is seen near Isabella, Minn., in 2016. Minnesota's moose population, while steadily declining partly because of a parasite carried by deer, is

Moose, other Minnesota species need federal protection, suit against feds says

Conservation group says Trump administration must protect 274 species.
Nation
November 20, 2019

Pompeo emerges as a major Trump enabler in Ukraine affair

Testimony undercuts any notion he wasn't part of Ukraine efforts
Nation
November 20, 2019
FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 file photo shows an ashtray with cigarette butts outside the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City. Researc

U.S. shelves plan to sharply cut nicotine in cigarettes

Retreat on new cigarette rules a victory for industry.
Politics
November 19, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Credit: Jenn Ackerman/New York Times

Ilhan Omar wants judge to go easy at sentencing on man who threatened to kill her

The Congress member from Minnesota said the defendant will be better served by being shown love and not a lengthy prison term.
Nation
November 18, 2019

Ohio school plans to drug-test all students

Nation
November 18, 2019
Police Chief: 3 killed in Okla. Walmart shooting

Police Chief: 3 killed in Okla. Walmart shooting

Two men and a woman were fatally shot Monday outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma, the chief of police said.
Nation
November 17, 2019
Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a former Army Special Forces soldier, left the Fort Bragg courtroom facility on June 27 with his civilian lawyer, Phillip Stackh

Trump's pardons to serviceman raise fears that laws of war don't apply

Minneapolis
November 16, 2019
Rick Boelter, a firearm's examiner in the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, is in the firearms reference collection vault, where guns used in the comm

A gun's life seen via a pistol used in Chicago, traced to Twin Cities

Technology increasingly shows how one gun can change hands and travel across cities and states, leaving a trail of dead or injured victims in its wake.
Nation
November 16, 2019
Judges Bradley Jacobs, Sabrina Bell and Andrew Adams.

Indiana judges suspended after drunken brawl in White Castle parking lot

A melee with strangers ended with two of the judges shot and in critical condition in a hospital.
Local
November 15, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 1, 1966 file photo, smoke rises from the sniper's gun as he fired from the tower of the University of Texas administration buildin

Hamline, Metro State profs create a database to shed light on mass shooters

Minnesota researchers gather facts and dispel myths with the creation of a "Mass Shooter Database"
Nation
November 14, 2019
At least 3 injured in California school shooting

At least 3 injured in California school shooting

The Los Angeles County Fire Department says now there are three confirmed injuries following a shooting at Saugus High School in the city of Santa Clarita.
Nation
November 10, 2019
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a ceremony to present the Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously to Rick Rescorla in the East Room of the

Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump's DACA rollback

Case against Trump's rollback of immigrant program is latest test of presidential power.
Nation
November 4, 2019
Historic barge stuck above Niagara Falls shifts

Historic barge stuck above Niagara Falls shifts

Parks officials are monitoring a century-old grounded barge that briefly broke loose during a storm last week in the river just above Niagara Falls.
Nation
November 2, 2019

Supreme Court case from Hawaii threatens the U.S. Clean Water Act

Business
October 31, 2019
Affected land from a Keystone oil pipeline leak near Edinburg, N.D.

Oil spill in North Dakota is Keystone pipeline's 2nd in 2 years

Business
October 31, 2019
In this March 25, 2014 photo, a machine mixes sand and water, left, before it is pumped underground during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Enca

'Canada' is becoming a dirty word in the oil patch

Encana will move headquarters to U.S., following its Denver-based CEO.

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