North Metro
August 19, 2017
FILE- In this Tuesday, Aug.15, 2017 file photo, volunteers search for bodies from the scene of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent, just outside of

Twin Cities' Sierra Leone community seeks to help homeland hit by mudslide

Immigrants reach out to help mudslide victims.
World
August 19, 2017
South Korean marines walk by a TV screen showing the live broadcast of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's press conference, at the Seoul Railway Sta

Military exercises to test U.S., North Korean restraint

U.S.-South Korean military exercises begin Monday.
World
August 18, 2017
Solidarity with Spain expressed across Europe

Solidarity with Spain expressed across Europe

One day after terror attacks in Spain killed more than a dozen and injured many more, there were signs of solidarity with the victims of the attacks expressed in capitals across Europe.
World
August 17, 2017

Charlottesville gives U.S. adversaries a chance to criticize

World
August 17, 2017
File-This file photo from 1945 shows the remains of the Warsaw ghetto, which the German SS dynamited to the ground. A Polish ruling party official sai

Poland debates WWII reparations from Germany

Some politicians want payment from Germany.
World
August 17, 2017
Raw: Barcelona pedestrians flee near van attack

Raw: Barcelona pedestrians flee near van attack

Footage has emerged of panic on Barcelona's streets after Thursday's van attack in the city's historic Las Ramblas district. Authorities say 13 people have died and more than 50 have been injured.
World
August 14, 2017

China tightens economic pressure on North Korea

Nation
August 13, 2017
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at a campaign rally in Sanford, Fla., on March 7, 2016. Rubio objected strongly to President Barack Obama's detente with Cub

Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio, U.S. memo says

Alert follows possible threat from Venezuela.
Nation
August 12, 2017
Discarded shells from harvested conch pile up under a dock near Eleuthera last year. (Jenny Staletovich/Miami Herald/TNS)

Conchs' survival depends on the Bahamas

For the hundreds of slow-moving slugs that gather to mate, scientists fear a new, unexpected threat may doom the population: old age.
Business
August 12, 2017
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen, shown in 2016, said one of the reasons he supported TPP was that it laid out rules and regulations for digital trade.

For digital trade advocates, all eyes on NAFTA

U.S. exit from the TPP erased breakthrough internet measures.
August 10, 2017
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Thursday. Trump refused to back down Thursday from his

Trump doubles down on 'fire and fury' vow as wargames near

Not backing down, President Donald Trump warned Kim Jong Un's government on Thursday to "get their act together" or face extraordinary trouble, and suggested he had been too mild when he vowed to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea if it continued to threaten the U.S.
Nation
August 10, 2017
An old car passes in front of the U.S Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on March 17, 2016. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Mysterious health issues drove diplomats from Cuba

Business
August 9, 2017

Trump may start trade war with Brazil over ethanol imports

World
August 9, 2017
Tillerson urges calm, on North Korea

Tillerson urges calm, on North Korea

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged calm and said Americans should have "no concerns" after North Korea and President Donald Trump traded fiery threats, insisting Wednesday he doesn't believe there is "any imminent threat."
August 8, 2017
North Korea has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear weapon and its nuclear arsenal is bigger than previously thought, U.S. analysts say.

N. Korea making missile-ready nuclear weapons, analysts say

The new analysis by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another assessment that sharply raises the estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country's atomic arsenal.
World
August 8, 2017
President Donald Trump talks about North Korea during a briefing on the opioid crisis, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedmi

Trump: N. Korea will be met with 'fire and fury'

US President Donald Trump says if North Korea escalates the nuclear threat, "they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
Nation
August 5, 2017
FILE - The mushroom cloud rises from Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, after the first atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber, as seen in this phot

Hiroshmina: The never-ending debate

President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima last year was a reflection of the fact that this controversy over the atomic bombing never really goes away.
World
August 5, 2017
Cholera victims, some of whom have lost multiple family members to the waterborne disease that causes life threatening vomiting and diarrhea, crowd a

Cholera-infected Haiti wants justice

U.N. peacekeepers brought the deadly disease in 2010.
August 4, 2017
Danish Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik at City Hall in Copenhagen on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Tens of thousands of flag-waving Danes braved

To be or not to be buried next to his wife, the queen; Danish prince decides not

The husband of Denmark's Queen Margrethe is causing a stir in one of the world's oldest monarchies.
World
July 31, 2017
Bolivarian National Guards stand guard inside the perimeters of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 31, 2017. Electoral authorit

Venezuela defiant as U.S. moves to sanction president

Trump administration froze assets, banned travel after Sunday's elections

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