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U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer singles out teenage transgender athlete in social media post
State Rep. Leigh Finke, the first transgender person elected to the Legislature, said the post targets the teen and her ...
Opinion: Medicaid cuts would harm all Minnesotans — not just those on Medicaid
• Physician training and access: 60% of doctors in Minnesota trained at Hennepin Healthcare. Medicaid cuts threaten the ...
Readers Write: Education, food
SCOTUS got it right: Charter schools are public schools — and public means nonreligious. Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices ...
Dom Decker delivers for Murray State and Racers upset Ole Miss 9-6 in Oxford Regional
Dom Decker drove in Conner Cunningham with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and Murray State went on to upset Oxford Regional No. 1 seed Mississippi 9-6 on Friday night.
A growing number of New Orleans fugitives' friends and family arrested for aiding in jail escape
The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 14 people, many of them friends and family who provided food, ...
Who is 'Miss Atomic Bomb'? A historian searched for 25 years for the answer
It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as ''Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival newspaper photo ...
States are rolling out red carpets for data centers. But some lawmakers are pushing back
The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America's fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms has spurred states to dangle incentives in hopes of ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's next move: Energizing Democrats in South Carolina and California
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will seek to energize activists at Democratic state conventions in South Carolina and California on Saturday, as the party's 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the ...
Key moments from the third week of Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial
Some of Sean ''Diddy'' Combs ' ex-employees took a central role in the third week of his sex trafficking trial, including personal assistants who testified that the hip-hop mogul was capricious, ...
Columbia stuns top-seeded Southern Miss 11-4 in nightcap of Hattiesburg Regional
Hunter Snyder had four hits and scored three runs, and Anton Lazits hit a three-run homer to power Columbia to an 11-4 victory over top-seeded tournament host Southern Mississippi in the Hattiesburg ...
Trump and Putin hint at US-Russia trade revival, but business environment remains hostile
Hundreds of foreign companies left Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, including major U.S. firms like Coca-Cola, Nike, Starbucks, ExxonMobil and Ford Motor Co.
Suarez gets huge strikeout as the Padres beat the Pirates for the 10th straight time
San Diego closer Robert Suarez got a huge called third strike with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning and the Padres beat Pittsburgh 3-2 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory over the ...