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She joins the Democratic field with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and former state Sen. Melisa López Franzen.... Read more »

A tornado watch covering the Twin Cities area was meant to last until 11 p.m., but it was canceled before 7 p.m.... Read more »

The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled that excess food caused the child to asphyxiate.... Read more »

A car strayed over the centerline and struck a minivan, police said.... Read more »

County Attorney John Choi said officers had “no other reasonable choice” than to shoot Pepsi Lee Heinl last May.... Read more »

The term is an upward departure from state sentencing guidelines.... Read more »

The Medical Examiner’s Office said the man “had three gunshot wounds to the rear of his body,” the criminal complaint read.... Read more »

Minneapolis police are still investigating what led to the fatal shooting late Sunday night.... Read more »

Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry's four offices.... Read more »

Minneapolis Police said they are investigating a shooting that damaged a city snowplow Sunday night.... Read more »

The omicron variant has halted plans to bring more workers back to the Twin Cities' downtowns.... Read more »

Minnesota is known as the state of hockey.... Read more »

In response to a historic spike in carjackings around the Twin Cities in the last two years, federal agents and prosecutors are stepping into an area of violent crime that had mostly been left up to local authorities to solve in the past.... Read more »

Prosecutors have charged a man suspected of fatally shooting the mother of his child this past weekend in St. Paul's North End neighborhood.... Read more »

The DFL-controlled Minnesota House made history last May when it passed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana. However, don't look for history to repeat itself in the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate this year.... Read more »

Crime prevention and public safety have moved to the top of the 2022 agenda of the Minnesota Legislature along with COVID response and the projected budget surplus.... Read more »

A crowd full of family members, fans and local elementary students held signs and American flags outside the Super Rink, as the bus full of Olympians headed out Monday afternoon.... Read more »

St. Paul Police are investigating an incident where a liquor store employee was reportedly shot during a confrontation with a shoplifter.... Read more »

Every Meal in Roseville has already served more than one million meals this school year.... Read more »

A woman is charged with second-degree murder in Scott County after she admitted to strangling her mother.... Read more »

The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd officially began Monday morning.... Read more »

Opening statements began Monday morning in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd.... Read more »

Arvid Harry Johnson, 65, faces one count of second-degree murder in his wife's death. He is being held at the Ramsey County Jail with a bail of $1 million.... Read more »

Earlier today, the law firm of Consovoy McCarthy filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on behalf of Maine Representative Laurel Libby and six…... Read more »

‘You only show up to meetings when it’s beneficial for you, so you can tell brown people who they are,’ one school board member charged.... Read more »

Why is a Republican fighting against religious school choice at the Supreme Court?... Read more »

The prospect of renewed negotiations would be more auspicious if the administration had first secured even one of the ambitious objectives it has set for itself abroad.... Read more »

Everyone is unhinged, as is customary during a Trump presidency.... Read more »

Her team will argue that, when intervening in the case of an illegal immigrant, she was acting within the scope of her official duties.... Read more »

Only self-deportations will move the needle.... Read more »

The Supreme Court should recognize the harmony of religious non-establishment and free exercise by allowing Oklahoma’s Catholic charter school.... Read more »

His underappreciated plea for prayer and charity — and real love.... Read more »

If the Trump administration’s big stick provokes a complacent Harvard into seeking more independence, that will be a good thing.... Read more »

The sooner the focus can get back to the reforms Pete Hegseth is pushing, the better.... Read more »

On the Canadian election today and U.S. elections past; a Georgian violinist; Central Park in bloom; and more.... Read more »

The Canadian Liberal leader’s fortunes turned around when all signs had previously pointed to defeat. But will they turn back?... Read more »

The rate of serious adverse events after chemical abortion is at least 22 times as high as the FDA says, according to new data.... Read more »

So much for poor, huddled masses: Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee intend, to make it prohibitively expensive to immigrate to the United States. In a 116-page reconciliation amendment from Chairman Jim Jordan, Republicans have proposed a whopping $1000 fee for asylum seekers—the first of its kind in U.S. history. The fee... Read more »

The U.S. Navy lost a $60 million fighter jet in the Red Sea Monday in another setback for Secretary Defense Pete Hegseth. The F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, currently stationed in the area part of the U.S.’s military campaign against the... Read more »

In an unsurprising development, President Trump is still far from achieving his promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history” after his first 100 days in office.Scripps News reported Monday that there has not been a notable increase in deportations since Trump took office, which deeply contradicts the images... Read more »

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party is begging Donald Trump to stop weighing in on the country’s politics as it holds elections Monday, posting in English and French on X that Trump “should stay out of our election.”“The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at... Read more »

A MAGA talking head is the latest new recruit to the White House briefing room. Rogan O’Handley, a.k.a. “DC Draino,” made his first appearance in the new media seat in the coveted federal space Monday, asking a question of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that was more Trumpian propaganda... Read more »

In the wake of Pete Hegseth’s massive Signal scandal, the former Fox News co-host’s Pentagon has become a place more concerned with P.R. than directing America’s military.Speaking with Megyn Kelly, another former Fox News host, on her podcast Sunday, ex-Hegseth aide Colin Carroll attested that the secretary and his team... Read more »

The people responsible for conducting Trump’s mass firings at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau are now firing themselves, according to a court filing first flagged by Politico’s Kyle Cheney.Two weeks ago the CFPB, under the Department of Government Efficiency’s direction, fired nearly 1,500 employees, leaving only about 200 people employed... Read more »

Donald Trump is definitely losing the reins on negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Trump told reporters Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had requested additional military aid during their meeting ahead of Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome. “[Zelenskiy] told me that he needs more weapons, but he’s been saying that... Read more »

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that China isn’t budging in the face of President Trump’s ill-advised tariffs.On Fox News Monday morning, Brian Kilmeade asked Bessent about progress on talks between the two countries over trade.“Do you plan on calling your counterpart [in China]?” Kilmeade queried. Bessent’s response showed that he... Read more »

Top GOP pollsters are seeing the forest for the trees in Donald Trump’s tanking approval rating.Speaking with CNN on Sunday, Republican pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz described the drop-off as “a significant change.”An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll published Sunday found that Trump’s approval rating had plummeted to 39 percent—a... Read more »

Donald Trump has completely gutted the Department of Justice section charged with securing elections, The Guardian reported Monday. In January, there were seven top career managers overseeing the voting section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which is charged with enforcing federal laws protecting voter registration. As of... Read more »

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order requiring all truck drivers to speak English, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with... Read more »

Trump supporters are freaking out after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for mass mobilization to resist Donald Trump. Pritzker told guests at a New Hampshire dinner full of Democratic activists, officials, and donors on Sunday, “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once.”“Never before in my life have I... Read more »

On Canada’s Election Day, the leader of the United States urged the nation’s neighbors to vote for an especially odd third option: choosing Donald J. Trump as their leader.“Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in... Read more »

Joan Walsh You can’t name Penn Station after Donald Trump. You can’t even joke about it. The post Governor Hochul, Are You F’ing Kidding? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Gia Ruiz In a record-breaking 25-hour speech, Senator Cory Booker criticized the Trump administration’s policies on Social Security, education, healthcare, and more. The post Cory Booker appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Kate Wagner His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart. The post Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elsie Carson-Holt The group has recruited Donavan McKinney, a 32-year-old Detroiter, to unseat incumbent Representative Shri Thanedar. The post Justice Democrats Launches Its First Primary Challenge in 4 Years appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Katrina vanden Heuvel And total household debt now exceeds $18 trillion. The post Did You Know Consumer Debt Has Reached an All-Time High? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Christopher Malley, Nathaniel Moses The university’s lawsuit against the Trump administration was widely celebrated, but our school has been quietly complying with federal demands around Palestine for weeks. The post We Don’t Have to Hand It to Harvard appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Nathan Taylor Pemberton In Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, he attempts to diagnose the apocalyptic nature of conservatism around the world. The post Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Ned Resnikoff Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.” The post A YIMBY Theory of Power appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

John Nichols Trump’s escalation in the struggle between the courts and his administration sent shock waves through Milwaukee and beyond. The post The FBI Arrests a Milwaukee Judge in “a Whole New Descent Into Government Chaos” appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Noam Sandweiss-Back The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal politicians. The post Trump Is Waging War on the Poor appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Steve Brodner Warning label. The post Good Night and Good Luck appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Steve Brodner Remake. The post Snow White appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Bruce Raynor, Andy Stern A call to action. The post Reclaiming the Democratic Party for Working Families appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer The latest press scandal shows how plutocracy props up authoritarianism. The post A “60 Minutes” Resignation Highlights the Corporate Media’s Surrender to Trump appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Since ancient Egyptian times, bees were thought to “bring messages from ancestors.” Thus, the practice of telling the bees when there was a death in the family was important. Grieving her daughter, Emily Polk, writer and teacher, sought to learn from bees. She engages with scientists and beekeepers for answers... Read more »

"In the face of overlapping mental health crises among young people and a mounting loneliness epidemic, technologists, investors and product developers are racing to build generative AI products to fill a void of human connection. We already have chatbot therapists, girlfriends and tutors, and the pace of new development is... Read more »

At age 25, Jacqueline Novogratz left a Wall Street career to co-found a microfinance bank in Rwanda. Read about a life-changing experience that was a turning point in which she said, “Every one of us has monsters and angels within us—light and dark. Our job is to feed the angels... Read more »

In the rural Japan town of Kawara, young kids are collecting trading cards “where the stars aren’t fantasy creatures, anime heroes or even famous baseball players, but ojisan (middle-aged or older men).” There are 47 different cards featuring men like Mr. Honda (74), a former fire brigade chief, Soba Master Mr. Takeshita... Read more »

For the northern bald ibis bird, hope takes flight not just metaphorically, but quite literally. Once extinct in central Europe, today, these birds are reclaiming their skies, thanks to the unwavering dedication of Austria's Waldrapp team. "It's a special time," remarks Barbara Steininger, one of the dedicated 'bird moms', who... Read more »

Dr. Leif Hass shares what he has learned about hope as a foundational element to healing, “what stifles it, what helps it spring forth, what social settings and cognitive states nurture it, and what habits we should develop in order to live with a hopeful mindset.” Some of his learning:... Read more »

In what was a life-changing and potentially life-saving experience, a young stranger saw a car rolling backwards, chased after it, and was able to stop it right before it would have rolled into a busy thoroughfare. Terry Hill was only four years old when her father left her and her... Read more »

The First United Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA is a landmark on the Rose Parade route to which people throng every New Year’s Day. Now, it is a safe space for two other religious groups: the Islamic Center of Southern California and the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. It... Read more »

In 2011, Ezra Sullivan joined a harvest crew in an apple orchard at the base of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Half of the orchard was well tended in neat rows. They worked it in a task focused, quick and effective way. The other half had been left unattended for... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A U.S. high school student made headlines by identifying 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space using artificial intelligence. Matteo (Matthew) Paz, a student with a passion for astronomy and coding, developed a machine-learning algorithm that analyzed data from NASA’s NEOWISE infrared telescope. His... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In a world where happiness in so many places is slowly declining, Iceland is going against the grain. According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, it’s one of the few countries in the top 20 where happiness is actually increasing. Since 2008, Iceland has... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In a culture saturated with selfies, social media stories, and endless scrolling, one Manchester nightclub is encouraging something radical: presence. Amber’s, a newly opened club in Manchester, is reviving rave culture the old-fashioned way—by banning phones on the dance floor. Inspired by Berlin’s iconic... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In western Switzerland, doctors are embracing an unexpected ally in the quest for better mental health: art. In the city of Neuchâtel, physicians are now prescribing museum and garden visits as part of a yearlong pilot program aimed at supporting residents facing mental health... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Paris spent the last two decades reimagining its urban landscape, and the results are not just visible, but breathable. The French capital has replaced car-centric streets with bike lanes and pedestrian zones, added green spaces, and eliminated more than 50,000 parking spots. The changes... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Humans have long assumed we hold a monopoly on recognizing shapes with geometric regularity. But a new study challenges that belief, revealing that crows can distinguish symmetrical, four-sided figures from irregular ones, suggesting that the foundations of geometric thinking may extend far beyond our... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM New York City officially launched enforcement of its mandatory composting program, making compost separation a requirement for all residents as of April. The city’s goal: reduce landfill waste and curb greenhouse gas emissions by diverting organic matter into a separate compost stream. Curbside composting... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM These days, it can be tempting to ditch your current device for the shinier, newer, faster upgrade. But a slow machine doesn’t always mean it’s time for a replacement, and there are a lot of reasons to hang onto our devices longer, not just... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Following over a decade of development, the European Space Agency (ESA) is on the verge of launching a groundbreaking satellite designed to revolutionize the way scientists observe forests and measure carbon. Set for liftoff on April 29 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the... Read more »

<![CDATA[The U.S. Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it. Defense One’s Meghann Myers lays out the jaw-dropping history of the M10 Booker combat vehicle off a candid interview with Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer. “This is... Read more »

The M10 Booker busted its requirements from the beginning. It’s a case study in how Army procurement wants to change.... Read more »

And because those tools guzzle cloud compute, the service is also looking at ways to cut costs and maintain efficiency.... Read more »

Move comes after judge called first Trump-administration effort to remove such workers a “a total sham.”... Read more »

Banning transgender servicemembers will have effects far beyond the careers of a few thousand troops.... Read more »

<![CDATA[Developing: India-Pakistan tensions are rising after deadly terror attack. Islamabad has denied responsibility for the April 22 attack that killed 26 mostly Indian tourists in an India-controlled Himalayan region, but the nations have nevertheless edged toward war; they have “downgraded diplomatic and trade ties, closed the main border crossing and... Read more »

It’s the only way to be sure automated and autonomous systems will work as expected.... Read more »

The service is eyeing flying CCAs alongside the E-7 radar plane and B-21 bomber, in addition to fighters.... Read more »

Once awarded, the Defense Innovation Unit would have eight OnRamp hubs to help steer commercial and dual-use tech to the Pentagon.... Read more »

Analogues to large language models for movements and tasks could usher humanoid robots onto the battlefield.... Read more »

<![CDATA[After at least a week of publicly threatening to abandon Ukraine, the Trump White House is pushing Kyiv to accept an apparently lopsided, U.S.-brokered peace deal that includes recognition of Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of Crimea, among other sacrifices—but little to no concessions for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense One’s... Read more »

The members of an al-Qaeda affiliate who went abroad must not be allowed to revive the group at home.... Read more »

But Ukraine ceasefire talks are still salvageable, experts say—if Trump changes course.... Read more »

DOD’s cyber verification process for software can be a costly chokepoint.... Read more »

President Donald Trump has announced that any new U.S. F-47 fighter jets sold to allied nations will be deliberately downgraded by 10%, citing potential future changes in alliances. The post U.S. to reduce capabilities of new jet purchased by allies first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

All sides of the debate use ferries as a tool for political point-scoring, but it's time to move past that and focus on strengthening Scottish industry. The post Ferries are being used as a political football in Scotland first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The MOD describes Project VANAHEIM as “the first wave of a substantial programme of work updating the Army’s C-UAS capabilities against the rapid development of Small UAS in recent years.” The post UK and US launch counter-drone Project ‘VANAHEIM’ first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The Government has confirmed that £22.7bn in assets have been frozen but has stated that it does not maintain a public list of Russian nationals with significant assets in the UK. The post Britain confirms £22.7bn in Russian assets frozen first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

A former Rosyth Dockyard worker has admitted to stealing metal and hull valves intended for the Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, later selling them for scrap. The post Rosyth worker stole aircraft carrier parts to sell for scrap first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

BAE Systems has signed a contract with Damen Naval to provide a Bofors 40 Mk4 naval gun system for the Colombian Navy’s PES frigate. The post BAE Systems to supply naval gun for Colombian frigate first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

While much of the aircraft’s specifications remain classified, here’s what we know so far. The post What do we know about the new F-47 fighter? first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Boeing's F-47 will have greater range, enhanced stealth, advanced sustainability, and higher operational availability compared to existing fifth-generation fighters like the F-22 and F-35. The post America’s newest and last manned fighter jet is the F-47 first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The UK government is actively exploring domestic alternatives for the launch of UK Space Command satellites, as it seeks to position itself as a European leader in small satellite launches. The post UK assessing domestic launch options for Defence satellites first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »