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With FEMA aid to rebuild from riots denied, Minnesota looks elsewhere
As Minnesota leaders pondered their next steps, it's not yet clear what other sources of funds they may tap.
Suburban women a challenge for Trump in Minnesota
With four months until Election Day, suburban women find themselves again a pivotal campaign demographic and a focus in key Midwestern states.
Partisan fight over emission standards threatens $60 million in Minnesota environmental trust fund projects
Some still hold out hope that the money will be freed up in the special session.
'Moving target': Schools deal with new plans, Trump demands
With little more than a month before millions of U.S. schoolchildren go back to class, much is still up in the air - and not just because of the surging number of coronavirus cases nationwide.
It's Trump's call on what the GOP convention will look like
After months of insisting that the Republican National Convention go off as scheduled despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump is slowly coming to accept that the late August event will not be the four-night infomercial for his reelection that he had anticipated.
Trump, Biden try to outdo each other on tough talk on China
China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who's better at playing the tough guy against Beijing.
Churches amid the pandemic: Some outbreaks, many challenges
Crowded bars and house parties have been identified as culprits in spreading the coronavirus. Meat packing plants, prisons and nursing homes are known hot spots. Then there's the complicated case of America's churches.
As beach towns open, businesses are short foreign workers
At this time of the year, The Friendly Fisherman on Cape Cod is usually bustling with foreign students clearing tables and helping prepare orders of clam strips or fish and chips.
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Brooks: With Columbus statue gone, Minn. Capitol works to tell a more complete history
If you listen to just one side of history over and over, you can miss the most important parts and the most interesting people.
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Brooks: A sanctuary closes, and a city faces its failure to protect and serve
With all the heartbreak and havoc, the Sanctuary Hotel was a bright spot, an uplifting story of a community taking care of its own. And then it was gone.
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2 officers, suspect killed in Texas border town shooting
Two police officers were shot and killed Saturday by a suspect who later fatally shot himself in a South Texas border town after responding to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said.
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US Navy welcomes 1st Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot
The U.S. Navy has welcomed its first Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot.
Mueller defends Russia probe, says Stone remains a felon
Former special counsel Robert Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, writing in a newspaper opinion piece Saturday that the probe was of "paramount importance" and asserting that a Trump ally, Roger Stone, "remains a convicted felon, and rightly so" despite the president's decision to commute his prison sentence.
In commuting Roger Stone's sentence, Trump goes where Nixon wouldn't
Trump's action was too much for some GOP critics of the president, who called it an abuse of power intended to subvert justice on his own behalf.
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus.
Trump wears mask in public for first time
As he left the White House, he told reporters: "When you're in a hospital, especially ... I think it's expected to wear a mask."
U.S. House race in Minnesota's 2nd District tests GOP comeback potential in suburbs
The district is the kind of suburban-to-exurban turf that's become the hottest campaign battleground of the Trump era.
The Latest: Nevada lawmakers suspend session over virus case
Nevada lawmakers have pumped the brakes on their emergency special session because someone in the legislative building has tested positive for the coronavirus.