Here’s what you need to know about Minnesota’s mask mandate and what face coverings do to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In the Old City, the beating heart of a place sacred to millions, the pandemic has challenged devout Muslims, Christians and Jews to rethink how to pray safely. New customs now accompany old rituals.

Minnesota health officials reported another 871 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday, but said limited testing means the actual total is much greater than the 51,153 cases confirmed since the pandemic began.

An alternative to a move by the Minneapolis City Council to remove the Police Department from the city's charter is in the works. The Minneapolis Charter Commission will listen to public testimony Monday evening on its own measure that does not make changes on the same scale as the City Council's amendment.

There are few harder blows to a family than the loss of a child. Not only can it leave parents and siblings with unbearable grief, but those around them can experience helplessness and feel unable to respond. A new picture book by a St. Paul writer and an illustrator takes on these huge emotions in a way they hope will help everyone.

The BWCA and the surrounding Superior National Forest in far northern Minnesota are seeing a surge in visitors this summer. With activities canceled and other trips on hold, vacationers are flocking to the area for the kinds of outdoors getaways that naturally allow for social distancing. That's good news for outfitters. But some of those campers are wreaking havoc.

He'd been separated from his parents. He was living in a refugee camp in Sudan. And then a snake bit him. Manyang Reath Kher, now living in the U.S., shares his moment of deepest despair — and how he pulled through.

Voters there missed the fine print and the elections staff was overwhelmed. As November nears, a by-mail vote surge — due to virus safety — will spotlight the ballot counting in other presidential battleground states with slim voting margins.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, 423,855 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Florida as of Sunday, compared to 411,736 in New York.

Wisconsin health officials on Sunday reported 957 more confirmed cases of the coronavirus and one new death. The percentage of positive tests was nearly 9.6 percent.

A man and woman in Minnesota wore red face masks emblazoned with swastikas to a Walmart, and a video posted to social media shows them being confronted by other shoppers.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday assailed Republican “disarray” over a new pandemic relief package as the White House suggested a narrower effort might be necessary, at least for now.

The actress is best remembered for her role in “Gone with the Wind,” but the two-time Oscar winner also won a landmark decision that gave artists creative independence from studios.

The hearse paused atop the bridge over the Alabama River as the cicadas sang in the summer heat. On the south side of the bridge, where Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers in 1965, family members placed roses that the carriage rolled over.

Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend, with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and Virginia.

Minneapolis police are asking for the public's help in locating a 10-year-old boy missing since Saturday afternoon.

Forecasters early Sunday downgraded Hurricane Hanna to a tropical storm. The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season made landfall twice along Texas' southern coast on Saturday.

Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades and helped himself and some fans strike it rich with the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died at 88.