Up to 2,000 volunteers are expected to help authorities look for evidence Tuesday in the Barron, Wis., area. Meanwhile, authorities said they're looking for two cars in connection with Jayme Closs' disappearance.

Protesters wearing masks and bandannas shouted and chanted throughout the meeting, vowing to shut it down. But after a recess and without any discussion because of the noise, the council voted 6-2 to authorize the purchase.

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

Democratic State Rep. Ilhan Omar and Republican activist Jennifer Zielinski will join MPR News host Tom Crann in the studio for a debate Tuesday. Have a question you'd like him to ask? Submit it now.

A warehouse development proposed for the Twin Cities suburb of Brooklyn Park has residents near the site riled up over traffic, noise and property values.

After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit. Other fragments will undergo further study.

Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate after plotting his death for days, Turkey's president said Tuesday, contradicting Saudi Arabia's explanation that the writer was accidentally killed.

An object that appeared to be an explosive device was found in a mailbox at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who has donated heavily to liberal causes and is a frequent target of unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories.

Thousands of mostly Central American migrants have crossed into Mexico with hopes of reaching the U.S. But Trump doesn't like it, and he's threatening to punish the countries they come from.

"The agency's proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with," The New York Times reported. Reaction was swift.

Delta Air Lines wants to add nonstop service from its Twin Cities hub to Shanghai, China, starting in 2020, operating the flights with the new Airbus A350-900 aircraft.

Best-selling author says going through life's hardest moments provide a natural opening to become connected to the people around us.

Where real life might deliver awkward silences, "Understood" offers dialogue.

It all started with a strange and persistent feeling of weakness one day in September 2014.

Roenneberg was just 23 when his team of resistance fighters parachuted into a mountain range in Norway. They skied to a plant making heavy water and blew Hitler's atomic plans off-schedule.

Just before the United Nations issued life-or-death warning the world needs to cut drastically its greenhouse gas emissions, a group of scientists made the case for why addressing deforestation is just as important as curbing fossil fuel use.

Fifteen years after a landmark study on the benefits of early childhood education, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis convenes experts to talk about innovation in education.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Don Palmerine, who witnessed a rape as a teenager. After keeping silent for 50 years, he wrote about it in The Washington Post.

Co-living projects are popping up in cities where housing costs are too expensive for middle-income residents. It's dorm life for adults, with shared kitchens and bathrooms, and it doesn't come cheap.