A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's killing last year on civil rights charges.

For more than a year, Minnesota has been operating under some level of restrictions, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. But soon, most of those restrictions will be lifted. Here’s what you need to know.

Efforts to slow the spread of invasive, tree-damaging gypsy moths in Minnesota will soon resume for the season in 13 targeted areas in the eastern part of the state.

Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy on Sunday publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik for the post of No. 3 leader, cementing party support of the Donald Trump loyalist over Rep. Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of the former president.

The Biden administration has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination assistance hotline for people who would prefer to get information via phone. It's part of the administration's push to get 70 percent of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one dose by July 4.

A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado early Sunday, slaying six adults before killing himself, police said.

The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, a person close to the investigation said Sunday.

Archeologists unearthed the remains of nine Neanderthals, dating from 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, in a discovery the Italian culture minister said will be "the talk of the world."

Authorities in St. Paul are asking for the public's help in finding a 73-year-old man who walked away from his home and didn't return on Saturday.

Minneapolis police say an 11-year-old girl reported missing Saturday is back home safe.

Medina Spirit, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has failed a drug test. It's the latest drug test failure for trainer Bob Baffert's horses. He denies any wrongdoing.

Photographer Gabby Jones spent a month with her mother in their family home on the island of Saint Thomas. It was an opportunity to mend their relationship — and document the intimate moments that came out of it.

Millions of women left the workforce during the pandemic as schools stopped in-person learning. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says the economic recovery hinges on women returning to work.

China's space agency said a core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean early Sunday, and that most of it burned up.

A string of lights that rolled across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others — mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers— lamenting the industrialization of space.

A bombing near a school in Kabul on Saturday killed at least 50 people. Female students may have been targeted. The school teaches boys and girls, but not together. Girls attend classes in the afternoon, when the explosion occurred.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is making good on his confirmation promise to refocus the department around civil rights after four years of tumult during the Trump administration, when such investigations waned.

George Floyd’s brother and nephew expressed gratitude Saturday after a federal grand jury indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in his death.