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Families made a pilgrimage to the west-central Minnesota town that formed them. “This place is a part of me,” 83-year-old Ron Tate said. “The good, and the not so good.”... Read more »

Medetomidine has been linked to overdoses in pockets across the U.S. It’s starting to appear in Minnesota.... Read more »

Air will be too hot and dry aloft for thunderstorms to cool us off.... Read more »

For years, MPD has used unmanned aircraft for specific tasks, including search and rescue operations. Some residents want the City Council to reject a pilot program.... Read more »

Maddison M. Zikmund, 36, of Blaine faces one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony.... Read more »

The Forest Service is closing 13 entry points into the BWCA on Saturday focused in the Ely area as well as access to 15 lakes near Quetico.... Read more »

Agency officials say there will be “an even more expanded program for vote monitors” for the general election in November.... Read more »

The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted clemency to Tou Lue Vang last month as he faced deportation for raping a 10-year-old girl more than two decades ago.... Read more »

University of Minnesota scientists spent two years investigating the status of a hidden but critical piece of infrastructure beneath the falls.... 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 »

Unlike the gangs allegedly behind the ships targeted in the Caribbean, groups backed by Turkey’s leader engage in what federal law defines as terrorist activity.... Read more »

The only question is what the endgame will look like.... Read more »

The Torlonia Collection of ancient Roman sculpture ends its triumphant North American tour at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts.... Read more »

Athletics may be the closest thing we have to a blueprint for how to disagree well.... Read more »

Steve Benner’s Meet the Neighbors makes some bold and fascinating claims.... Read more »

Plus: The broken Iran deal.... Read more »

Why scorn triumphalism when talking about American movies that conquered the world?... Read more »

Karoline Leavitt touched off a firestorm with her explanation of socialism’s popularity among her generation.... Read more »

They are already privileged with government benefits, and younger families would foot the bill.... Read more »

No Western leader understands and embraces our cultural inheritance more fully than the Italian prime minister.... Read more »

The hidden hand still works better than the heavy hand.... Read more »

We can’t forget that the activism in 2020 was so totalitarian that even candy companies issued statements about racism.... Read more »

The president has been ordered to pay $5 million, and he may be on the hook for much more.... Read more »

You hate to see it.... Read more »

With Graham Platner bowing out of the race for U.S. Senate in Maine following allegations that he raped his former partner, the scramble to replace him is well underway—and the field of possible alternatives is starting to get considerably crowded. Since the allegations that essentially ended Platner’s campaign came out,... Read more »

The Trump administration is planning on building a fleet of government-owned planes specifically to perform 24-7, short-notice deportations as part of its all-out effort to make Trump’s delusions of one million deportations per year a reality.The Department of Homeland Security is currently looking for a private company to operate a... Read more »

Senator Mitch McConnell may be in the hospital for undisclosed reasons, but apparently there’s still work to be done on his house.TMZ reports that a man carrying carpet samples was spotted leaving McConnell’s residence in Washington, D.C., Friday. Mitch McConnell's D.C. home getting new flooring as he remains hospitalized. pic.twitter.com/FREeemYLC1—... Read more »

President Donald Trump isn’t done transforming one of the nation’s most iconic buildings into an active construction site and expecting Americans to foot the bill. The front doors of the White House, which face toward Lafayette Park and pedestrian traffic, are currently undergoing security improvements, as repairs are made to... Read more »

A federal judge handed President Trump two new losses in his war against whatever he perceives as diversity, equity, and inclusion.U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued a preliminary injunction to freeze Trump’s effort to place anti-DEI conditions on federal grants in multiple cities in Oregon and California, ruling that the... Read more »

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut off a safety investigation into eight National Guard pilots who were suspended after they used military helicopters to buzz a crowded beach. Crowds gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July on the coast of South Carolina were treated to a “Salute to the Shore” demonstration,... Read more »

Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s lone House of Representatives seat, is suing members of his own party for defamation stemming from homophobia.Semafor reports that Rasner is pursuing a case against former Wyoming State Senator Austin “Kit” Jennings, who allegedly pushed rumors that Rasner committed sexual misconduct.... Read more »

American wages have stagnated, while the cost of living—affected by rising inflation and the unending Iran war—continues to climb. Yet the vice president has not been shy about the fact that he is, comparatively, living very large.JD Vance joined Dirty Jobs star Mike Rowe’s podcast Thursday to chat about faith,... Read more »

President Trump’s attacks on wind power could have a devastating effect on Minnesota. The state has four wind energy projects that could bring 1,200 construction jobs, 4,400 other jobs connected to the projects, and over $168 million in economic impacts to the state, the Minnesota Reformer reports, citing the progressive think... Read more »

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch responded to President Trump’s most recent attack, framing the White House’s hostile 162-page July 4 report as a gross misrepresentation of what the storied cultural institution actually does.“While there will always be room for improvement, this report is not a fair characterization of the work and... Read more »

President Donald Trump tried to take credit for Walmart’s summer sale, but it seems he didn’t have anything to do with lowering prices. White House senior deputy press secretary Kush Desai crashed out Thursday when faced with a report that Trump didn’t deserve any credit for Walmart’s recent price reduction... Read more »

Nine months after delivering his widely mocked “beardo” speech, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is still fuming about the military’s (according to him) lax attitude toward grooming standards.Hegseth has recently complained in private about seeing service members with facial hair, going so far as to suggest that the military’s senior leadership... Read more »

The Trump administration wants to fence off parts of Pennsylvania Avenue outside of the White House, shutting down a historic space for political protests.The Washington Post reports that the administration and Secret Service plan to put fences where Pennsylvania Avenue crosses 15th and 17th Streets NW, allowing them to close... Read more »

The men who were in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed him on Tuesday say he did not try ram the immigration agents’ unmarked car—directly contradicting ICE’s version of events.The agents stated that Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and father of three... Read more »

Sara Black McCulloch By placing the burden of maintaining one’s health on individuals, we obscure the broader environmental, political, genetic, and social forces that affect our well-being. The post When Will Cancer Stop Being “Our Fault”? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that’s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors. The post The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Steve Brodner ICE kills again. The post MAGA Murder Inc. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Bob Bingenheimer Street art in Barcelona expressing solidarity with Palestine, June 2026. The post Walls of Solidarity appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Sarah Soroosh Moghadam High cost of living and political turmoil are forcing climate change to the back burner, exposing a massive voter turnout problem for the environmental movement. The post Gen Z Thinks About Climate Change Constantly. Why Don’t They Vote Like It? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Sasha Abramsky Trump’s constant cruelty can make it all seem routine. The post What One Week of Trump News Says About Our New Normal appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

S. Baum It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. The post How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Katha Pollitt Inexperienced and improperly vetted, the candidate was a disaster in the making. The post Graham Platner’s Downfall Was All Too Predictable appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Matthew Duss Though the speech broke from a failed approach toward Israel, it was still based on flawed and tendentious attitudes and history. The post Rahm Emanuel’s Speech in Tel Aviv Breaks With a “No Daylight” Approach appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Peter Kuper Continued dependence on oil is boiling our planet. The post Hot as Hell appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Mark Hertsgaard Hundreds of outlets across the country have joined the “I am the 89%” campaign. The post How Japan’s Media Ecosystem Is Fighting Climate Change appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elaine Schiff “Now our country is run by people who really believe in crushing the poor and killing them.” The post Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Sebastiaan Faber, Bécquer Seguín Spain’s prime minister has become a global progressive icon. But at home, his government is hanging by a thread. The post Pedro Sánchez Is Living on Borrowed Time appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Maxwell Nagle In order to make progress on gender equity in sports, we must expand our understanding of trans people. The post I Quit College Basketball to Transition. This Is What the Debate About Trans Athletes Misses. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Alyssa Curtis drives through a town in Michigan, US, with a trunk full of diapers and microwaveable mac-and-cheese cups. She restocks the 20 little pantries her nonprofit has quietly planted across the region. The Shame Free Collective is exactly what its name promises: no forms, no judgment, no humiliation tax... Read more »

When fire swept through the Santana Indigenous Territory in 2018, the men went for help and the women watched the land burn. From that helplessness, something unexpected grew: a volunteer fire brigade where 25 of 45 trained firefighters are women -- grandmothers, teenagers, educators -- defending 73,000 hectares of Brazil's... Read more »

Every year, for the last 34 years, a team of Japanese surgeons, dentists, and nurses has made the same journey: through Ho Chi Minh City's traffic, across the Mekong River, and into a rural hospital in Vinh Long province -- to offer free cleft-lip and cleft-palate surgeries to people who... Read more »

After fifty years planting 25 million trees, Swami Prem Parivartan, known affectionately as "Peepal Baba," offers a counterintuitive insight: the most important trees are not the saplings we will plant in the future, but the elder trees that are already standing. His answer to whether he would save a 500-year-old... Read more »

According to gifted storyteller Brian Conroy, “Before I ever told a story, I internalized the elements that made a good story” by absorbing vibrant family rhythms and cadences, the music, the laughter. Stories about his father brought him to life though he died when Brian was only four months old.... Read more »

Amanda Coll and her seven year-old son with cerebral palsy were riding on a modified scooter when they hit a puddle and fell. Suddenly, she realized her son was unconscious. She had no phone on her, and the park was nearly empty. Desperate, she shouted for help. Five teenagers, sheltering... Read more »

In the semi-arid grasslands of southwestern Ukraine, within earshot of missile strikes, conservationists are returning wild donkeys, horses, and buffalo to a steppe that hasn't heard their ancient sounds in two centuries -- and in doing so, are rebuilding something more than an ecosystem. Rewilding Ukraine's work in the Tarutino... Read more »

Julius Rosenwald, the businessman who built Sears into an empire, spent his fortune on nearly 5,000 schools across the rural American South. And he refused to put his name on any of them. Working alongside Booker T. Washington, he insisted that communities contribute their own resources alongside his, believing that... Read more »

Ten years ago, Amy Wright opened Bitty & Beau's Coffee with the quiet hope that one day her son Beau, who was born with Down syndrome, might want to work there. She sat in her car before walking in, already a little choked up, knowing what she was about to... Read more »

Episode Description: Every player at this year’s World Cup is wearing the end result of 500 years of iteration on a single piece of equipment. It started with factory workers hammering hardware store nails into their boots for traction on wet British turf. Ten solutions this week with Arielle and... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s something almost absurd about how we’ve always measured wildlife. Two trained ecologists visit the same river, spend days cataloguing what they can see, and come back with completely different species lists. Neither is wrong. The data just can’t be compared, which means it... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a specific kind of “off” that’s difficult to capture or express in words. No, you’re not feeling sick or sad. You’re not stressed exactly. Just… off. A little irritable, a little flat, carrying something you can’t quite put your finger on. You’ve cleaned... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM California just closed a gap that’s been undermining its clean energy numbers for years. Governor Newsom signed SB 1350 into law, qualifying green hydrogen electricity as a renewable source under the state’s Renewables Portfolio Standard. Power plants that use it now earn financial incentives.... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Nobody watches the World Cup to think about footwear. But the shoes on the pitch at the 2026 tournament are the end result of about 500 years of iteration, and the story is stranger than you’d expect. It involves a family feud, kangaroo leather,... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You know that thing where you sit down to find one photo from last summer, and somehow it’s thirty minutes later, and you’re in 2019? Digital clutter does that. A chaotic phone or a laptop full of half-forgotten downloads creates the same low-level stress... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most Alzheimer’s research goes after the toxic proteins directly. This study asks a different question: what if the brain’s own clearing system could be fixed instead? Research from Monash University’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, found that a copper compound... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Kaitlin Jeffrey was 18 when her face and hair caught fire at a fraternity party at Western University last December. She ended up at the burn unit at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, where her surgeon had an approach he’d never been able to... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Men’s grooming has always occupied a strange middle ground. Too much and you’re vain. Too little and people notice. For most men, the default settled around soap, a razor, and deodorant, and that was that. Dermatologists have been making the case for years that... Read more »

Impulse Space and Relativity Federal can compete for national-security missions against SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others.... Read more »

A request for prototypes is expected in August.... Read more »

SecDef Hegseth's no-warning termination of worker agreements broke the law and caused "confusion and disruption," the suit alleges.... Read more »

<![CDATA[Rocket engine startup Venus Aerospace only has one major test flight under its belt, but the company just raised $91 million from investors ready to bet on future production demands. The Series B funding round was led by the venture capital firm Mercury Fund and with participation from other investors,... Read more »

In a new video, Science & Tech editor Patrick Tucker looks at how the narrative has shifted.... Read more »

Kirsten Davies said her office is adding focus on cybersecurity and the warfighter.... Read more »

One analyst said the Pentagon’s waffling on the E-7 contributed to an “own goal.”... Read more »

Cyber intruders accessed the unclassified network being used to help support World Cup games around the U.S., a senator said last week.... Read more »

Officials said the decades-old criteria used to punish misconduct are too restrictive and “mechanistic.” Practitioners disagree.... Read more »

Congress has a lot to sort out.... Read more »

DARPA program aims to create a 30-year battery minimally viable prototype by early 2027.... Read more »

As service extends its capabilities and reach, SASC orders up a look at its prospective legal needs.... Read more »

“If he doesn’t care about blowing up cyber exploits, putting foreign relationships at risk, or getting people killed, he could declassify a lot,” one former official said.... Read more »

“It's just a really exciting time for generative AI in the department,” the Pentagon’s chief artificial intelligence officer said.... Read more »

A Modern Renaissance Woman in the Public Eye Meghan O’toole King is a name that resonates with versatility. From her early days as a model strolling runways in Milan to…... Read more »

A Life Rooted in Family Connections Maxwell Alston Sutter, born in 2007, has a reality TV legacy. Maxwell’s life has been shaped by family love as the son of Trista…... Read more »

A Matriarch Rooted in Values Helen Polizzi is a name that quietly resonates with the ideals of family, loyalty, and resilience. Born in the mid-1950s in New York, she grew…... Read more »

A Visionary in the Entertainment Industry Famous Hollywood dealmaker Harry M. Brittenham was more than an entertainment attorney. He was a force of nature who changed narrative for decades for…... Read more »

Brooklyn Roots and the Making of Character Edwina Lynch entered the world in Brooklyn in 1919, and that beginning matters. Brooklyn in those years was dense with motion, with apartment…... Read more »

A Name Shared by Two Lives Joseph Barrino is a name that carries more than one story, and that is part of its intrigue. In one branch of the family…... Read more »

A designer shaped by line, discipline, and restraint Stephanie Waldrip stands out in a fashion landscape that often rewards noise over nuance. Her work moves in the opposite direction. It…... Read more »

A life seen through the edges I keep returning to Karen Weitzul because her story is the kind that lives in the margins of other people’s drama. She is not…... Read more »

A name that lives between notice and privacy I think Zofia Jade Page is interesting precisely because she is not loud. In a culture that rewards oversharing, she seems to…... Read more »

Collaborative Combat Aircraft will augment Typhoon and F-35 in the air defence of the UK, the MOD says. The post Drone fighters expected to help defend UK skies in 2030s first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The MOD says crewed and uncrewed ships together bring more missiles and mass, while the exquisite Type 83 would have meant too few ships for the Navy's tasks. The post UK outlines thinking behind binning plans for new destroyers first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

A prototype uncrewed missile platform and extra-large uncrewed underwater vessels are intended to be in Royal Navy service by 2030. The post Uncrewed missile ship prototype to join British fleet by 2030 first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Officials had said the destroyers would retire without life extension. A written answer now says transition planning will determine whether one happens. The post Type 45 Destroyer may get life extension after all first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

It is understood that Scottish shipyards are likely to benefit from "a substantial and exciting opportunity" to build new combat vessels and drone warships. The post Scottish shipyards likely to benefit from new warship work first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Three British SMEs will develop low-cost air defence effectors under a five-nation programme, with the UK the first partner to put suppliers on contract. The post UK awards Europe’s first low-cost drone interceptor deals first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

A two-thirds rise in a decade takes the combined sectors past £46 billion in value added, with defence turnover up 66 per cent, new figures show. The post Defence and aerospace add £46.8bn to UK economy, ADS says first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The Navantia UK Appledore shipyard say they can build two LASV75 autonomous vessels at once. The post British shipyard gearing up to build drone warships first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Cables cut in the Baltic, Russian ships over UK pipelines. The underwater battlespace is back, writes Tim O'Neill of BAE Systems, and subsea communications are the weak link. The post Why the underwater battlespace demands urgent innovation first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »