Duluth
July 31, 2019
An aerial view shows flooding triggered by a dam collapse near Brumadinho, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. Brazilian mining company Vale SA said it did

PolyMet critics say firm relied on engineer connected to mine dam failure in Brazil

It's cited in the argument in the Minnesota Court of Appeals, which is deciding a challenge to mining permits granted to PolyMet by Minnesota regulators.
World
July 30, 2019
U.S. teens face very different legal system in Italy

U.S. teens face very different legal system in Italy

One of two American teenagers jailed in Rome for allegedly slaying a police officer said he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to a judge's ruling obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.
Minneapolis
July 26, 2019
Sylwia Pawlak-Reynolds, 43, communicates with her son William via Skype as he eats a dinner after school. A Polish mother and day care operator charge

Feds seek to extradite Mpls. day care operator accused of murder

Sylwia Pawlak-Reynolds has refused to return to the U.S. from Poland to face questioning, citing a fear of being imprisoned and separated from her infant son, who remains under her care in Poland.
July 25, 2019
Franky Zapata, "Le Rocketman", a 40-year-old inventor, performs a training flight over the Saint Inglevert airport near Calais, Northern France, Wedne

Air-board inventor makes it more than halfway across Channel

Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine then crashed in the sea Thursday.
Minneapolis
July 25, 2019
Mpls. police docs: Woman who accused Chinese billionaire of rape sought money, apology

Mpls. police docs: Woman who accused Chinese billionaire of rape sought money, apology

An attorney for the woman who alleged Richard Liu raped her called the allegations of extortion "ridiculous."
July 23, 2019
Boris Johnson speaks after being announced as the new leader of the Conservative Party in London, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Brexit champion Boris Johnso

Boris Johnson chosen as new UK leader, now faces Brexit test

Boris Johnson, Britain's blustering Brexit campaigner, was chosen as the U.K.'s next prime minister on Tuesday, with a resounding mandate from the Conservative Party but conflicting demands from a politically divided country.
World
July 23, 2019
Boris Johnson pledges to deliver Brexit, unite UK

Boris Johnson pledges to deliver Brexit, unite UK

Brexit hard-liner Boris Johnson won the contest to lead Britain's governing Conservative Party on Tuesday and will become the country's next prime minister, tasked with fulfilling his promise to lead the U.K. out of the European Union.
Nation
July 22, 2019
Thousands of Puerto Ricans march on the Las Americas expressway calling for Puerto Rican governor Ricardo "Ricky" Antonio Rossello Nevares' resignatio

Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans demand governor resign

Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by a leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.
World
July 22, 2019
Israeli forces destroy a building in a Palestinian village of Sur Baher, east Jerusalem, Monday, July 22, 2019. Israeli work crews have begun demolish

Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

Israeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighborhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years.
World
July 18, 2019
More than 20 presumed dead in Japan anime studio fire

More than 20 presumed dead in Japan anime studio fire

A Japanese fire official says at least 23 people are now confirmed or presumed dead in a suspected arson at a popular animation production studio in Kyoto.
July 17, 2019
In this photograph taken Sunday July 14, 2019, an Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health

Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency

The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people .
July 17, 2019
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison

Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, expressing no remorse over his conviction for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades.
World
July 17, 2019

A look inside the damaged Notre Dame Cathedral

Workers are still securing and cleaning up debris after the devastating fire that nearly destroyed the edifice.
Local
July 16, 2019
January 21, 1981 Arvid Laingen, seated at right, found it hard to concentrate on a memorial service Tuesday at St. Olaf's Lutheran Church near Odin, M

Minnesota native, top American held in Iran during hostage crisis dies

Bruce Laingen was often seen on the news bound and blindfolded. His wife tied a yellow ribbon around the oak tree in the front yard of their home. He was 96.
World
July 16, 2019
Afghan refugees who fled their homeland due to war and famine, are on their way to collect clean water in slums of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 1

World hunger continues rising amid war, climate change, U.N. reports

Over 820 million people undernourished last year.
Minneapolis
July 15, 2019
Munira Mohmed (center) and Habiba Mohamed (right) listened as speakers shared memories of slain journalist Hodan Nalayeh and her work. Munira Mohmed m

Minnesotans inspired by Somali-Canadian journalist killed in terrorist attack

Somali-Canadian activist went back to broadcast "the other side of Somalia."
World
July 15, 2019
France celebrates Bastille Day with parade

France celebrates Bastille Day with parade

French President Emmanuel Macron has overseen the annual Bastille Day celebrations which this year showcased European defence cooperation.
World
July 11, 2019

British woman fatally impaled by metal straw after fall at her house

July 10, 2019
This fox, fitted with a satellite tracking collar in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago two years ago, walked to Canada.

Correction: Norway-Fast Fox story

In a story July 3 story about an arctic fox that walked more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada, The Associated Press reported erroneously the age of animal as roughly 2 years. The fox was less than 1 year old.
Music
July 6, 2019
FILE - In this June 18, 2004 file photo, Brazilian composer Joao Gilberto performs at Carnegie Hall, in New York. The Brazilian singer and composer, w

Brazilian bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto dies at 88

Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his son said. He was 88.

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