Officer Mohamed Noor joined the police force through a nontraditional, 30-week cadet academy. Police officials say it's condensed, but thorough.

Trump said on Twitter Wednesday that after consulting with "Generals and military experts," that the government "will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."

As congressional scrutiny of Russian interference expands, the panel is looking at the advocacy of foreign government on Wednesday -- though key witnesses will not be appearing as originally planned.

Senators planned to vote Wednesday on a Republican amendment repealing much of President Barack Obama's law and giving Congress two years to concoct a replacement.

Todd Waters lived a full life. Actually, he lived two full lives.

An invitation to President Donald Trump's afternoon news conference with Wisconsin officials says electronics giant Foxconn will build a liquid-crystal display panel plant in Wisconsin.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA are investigating and believe the cause to be salmonella contamination from Maradol papayas. There has been one reported case in Minnesota.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate from Maine, can be overheard complaining about Trump and his proposed 2018 budget. "Whenever there was a grant, they just X-ed it out, with no metric, no thinking about it, no nothing," she said.

Farmers face competing demands for local food, environmental stewardship and the need to feed a hungry world.

Some 12,000 people -- including 3,000 campers -- reportedly moved to safety in Bormes-les-Mimosas, east of Marseille.

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. Muslims view President Donald Trump as unfriendly to them, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg describes the opening sentence to "Pride and Prejudice" as a "masterpiece of indirection" that is frequently repurposed, but whose irony is never matched.

Two of the four people charged in the death of a Minnetonka High School student during a robbery in St. Paul have been sentenced to prison.

On July 12, 1984, a Minnesota politician made history.

President Trump has a special relationship with Deutsche Bank. Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee wanted a probe of the German bank. Republicans said no. Here's the back story.

Managing the police department becomes the major issue in the Minneapolis mayor's race.

High school athletes who tended to focus on one sport were 50 percent more likely to get hurt than those who hadn't specialized. Injuries included ankle sprains, knee tendonitis, and stress fractures.

Perry spoke to the pair about the Paris Climate Accord and the possibility of using pig manure as a power source in his 22-minute conversation with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov.

The mayor said she's heard constituents call for urgency in changing police leadership, so she wants to skip the "lengthy process" of searching externally for a new chief.