Target is temporarily closing 105 stores in 10 states after several were broken into during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.

While the nation’s attention has been focused on the Twin Cities, other Minnesota and North Dakota cities saw protests and enacted curfews on Saturday. 

Frightened and angry Minneapolis residents mobilized Saturday night to protect their neighborhoods, setting up shifts to watch over their blocks or barricading their streets to keep out troublemakers. Others patrolled neighborhood businesses, armed and ready to fight off arsonists or looters.

Outside extremist agitators are among those fomenting violence, chaos and destruction in the Twin Cities, seeking to co-opt protests following the police killing of George Floyd to their own ends.

After nearly a week of massive protests over the killing of George Floyd in the Twin Cities, health officials said they expected a spike in cases stemming from the gatherings.

Access to tests has improved significantly, and in some places, people can now get tested without having to show any symptoms. We asked experts how much you can really learn from the result.

The mayor of Houston said Saturday that the body of George Floyd, whose death after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck during an arrest has sparked protests across the U.S, will be returning to the city where he grew up.

Black people don’t need to see the video of George Floyd’s death to know that they are three times more likely to be killed by police than are white people. They don't need to hear the statistics on COVID-19 to know that black people have been affected disproportionately. If you are black, you need not imagine anything — You know it very well.

After his nephew was killed by police in 2016, Clarence Castile became a St. Paul reserve police officer to understand the divisions. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the experience.

Former U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis won the Republican endorsement for U.S. Senate during an online state convention that spent a lot of time blasting Gov. Tim Walz.

They're not exactly easy questions to answer. In the first case, you must consider motel cleaning regimens and the hazards of driving vs. the risk of sitting next to a sneezy air traveler.

“He should not have gone through that, and died that way,” said Mauro, manager of La Mexicana. “I hope he’s in heaven, and may his soul rest in peace.”

School board members and local teacher union press Minneapolis Public Schools to end contract with the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

A white Minneapolis police officer and the black man he's charged with killing both worked as security guards at the same Latin nightclub as recently as last year, but its former owner says she’s not sure if they knew each other.

With new U.S. economic numbers highlighting the rough road ahead for a hoped-for rebound, President Trump on Friday took aim at the World Health Organization and China, blaming both for their roles in the pandemic's devastation.

The next round of coronavirus aid will be narrowly focused and will not extend federal unemployment assistance, the Senate majority leader says.

"For the seventh day in a row, there are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand," the Ministry of Health said on Friday.

U.S. consumer spending plunged by a record-shattering 13.6 percent in April as the viral pandemic shuttered businesses, forced millions of layoffs and sent the economy into a deep recession.