Nation
January 1, 2020
131st Rose Parade marches under sunny skies

131st Rose Parade marches under sunny skies

Marching bands and floral floats took to the streets under mostly sunny California skies as the 131st Rose Parade drew hundreds of thousands of spectators on New Year's Day.
Nation
January 1, 2020
Security tight, Jews gather at MetLife Stadium

Security tight, Jews gather at MetLife Stadium

The celebration with more 92,000 people drew a heavy security presence after recent anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area.
Nation
December 30, 2019
President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Nov. 25, 2019.

Trump faces blowback for outing alleged whistleblower

President Trump faces criticism from political opponents — and even among some supporters — for naming the alleged whistleblower whose complaint triggered the congressional inquiry that resulted in his impeachment.
Nation
December 28, 2019
5 killed in Louisiana plane crash

5 killed in Louisiana plane crash

A small plane crashed into the parking lot of a post office in Louisiana shortly after takeoff on Saturday, killing five people and fully engulfing a car on the ground in flames, authorities said.
Local
December 27, 2019
Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse, shown in 2008.

Minn. man temporarily banned from Disney World denies he groped Minnie Mouse character

A Brewster, Minn., farmer denies the allegations by Disney World and wants trespass order lifted.
West Metro
December 27, 2019
Nation
December 25, 2019
Sofia Nhanelii, 4, from Oaxaca, Mexico, opens a coloring book on Christmas Eve while her family waits in Tijuana for their turn to make an initial asy

Volunteers bring Christmas gifts to children at the Mexican border

Nation
December 24, 2019
Officer jumps into Baltimore Harbor, rescues dog

Officer jumps into Baltimore Harbor, rescues dog

A Baltimore Police Officer jumped into the frigid inner harbor on Sunday to rescue a dog. WJZ-TV quotes Baltimore Police Lieutenant Steve Olson as saying a black labrador named Loki got off his leash and went into the water on Sunday.
Nation
December 23, 2019
The Broward Sheriff's Office training center will feature a two-story tribute to the victims of the Parkland mass shooting. (Broward Sheriff's Office)

Parkland parents 'stunned' and 'touched' by planned memorial

Business
December 23, 2019
The headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in downtown Washington, D.C.

EPA: New tests increase number of 'forever chemicals' measured in drinking water

Agency's new testing protocol raises the number of "forever chemicals" it will look for to 29, up from 18.
Business
December 22, 2019

U.S. House vote to lift federal tax deduction cap could be short-lived

House voted to take lid off tax payments deductions.
Nation
December 22, 2019
An explosive cloud of mist and vapor hang in the air as an armada of orca whales surface to breath as they swim close to shore near Lim Kiln State Par

Northwest killer whales shrink in size, and so do their prey

Smaller chinook salmon are making the orcas work harder to get enough to eat.
Nation
December 21, 2019
A jogger at sunset on Sugarloaf Key, Fla., on Dec. 3, 2019. Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long

Florida Keys deliver a hard message: As seas rise, some places can't be saved

And in some places, it doesn't even make sense to try.
Nation
December 18, 2019
The border crossing from San Diego to Tijuana, part of Phase 3 of the San Ysidro Expansion Project. (Alexandra Mendoza/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

Major expansion at the San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing with Mexico is complete

Mexico, U.S. officials laud the $741 million project.
Business
December 17, 2019
The Senate will now consider killing the medical device excise tax as part of the 2020 spending package. Pictured is the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Andre

House passes measure to kill medical device tax

The measure, part of the 2020 spending package, now moves on to the Senate.
Nation
December 17, 2019
Van crashes into Seattle store, injuring 11

Van crashes into Seattle store, injuring 11

A van apparently being used as a getaway vehicle crashed into a crowded store outside of Seattle, injuring 11 people, including a 2-year-old child, police said.
Politics
December 15, 2019
Freshman U.S. Rep. Angie Craig Credit: Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune

Minnesota's Angie Craig decides she'll vote to impeach

Nation
December 13, 2019
President Donald Trump declared Friday's House committee vote to impeach him "an embarrassment to our country" and refused to back away from the charg

Trump calls impeachment vote 'embarrassment' to nation

Celebrities
December 13, 2019
Danny Aiello

Blue-collar character actor Danny Aiello has died at 86

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