Several new and sitting members of Congress, including Ilhan Omar, are backing a wide-ranging plan to make the U.S. economy carbon-neutral and remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
State regulators took additional steps at a meeting Monday in St. Paul to push the controversial project closer to final approval. But opponents vow they will continue to fight it.
Multiple tents caught fire Monday at a homeless encampment but the Minneapolis Fire Department said much of the fire was extinguished quickly and one person was treated for smoke inhalation.
Ryan Fry said in a statement released by Curling Canada that his "bad lapse in judgment" was "truly disrespectful and embarrassing" and the committee was right in making the disqualification.
During World War I, another humanitarian disaster drove immigration from the Middle East.
The city wants to build a global hub of medical innovation. But some highly trained and accomplished workers who follow spouses there say it's hard to find a job.
The invasive Oriental bittersweet vine has had about 50 years to spread, but efforts to contain it are finally paying off.
Mozart may have been ahead of his time in his love of the starling. Book author muses: Can their behavior help teach society a thing or two?
Three Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's appointment is unconstitutional and asking a federal judge to remove him.
Thanksgiving may be a time of joy for you, but for sewer workers it's the season of dread — a holiday when clogged fats, oil, grease and disposable wipes can lead to sewer backups.
Keith Ellison names 35-member transition advisory board.
Chipotle is offering to rehire a St. Paul restaurant manager fired after receiving more information about an incident where employees refused to serve five black men and asked them to prove they could pay before taking their order.
President Reagan's pivot away from a reporter's question about possibly pardoning those involved with the 1980s arms-sales scandal is a key moment in the history of the event taking place Tuesday.
Sixteen Democrats who've opposed Nancy Pelosi's quest to become speaker released a letter Monday saying they will vote for "new leadership" when the House picks its leaders in January, posing a threat to her effort to lead her party's House majority in the next Congress.
Millions of Americans will sit down together over the coming weeks to break bread, catch up, reminisce and do their best to avoid talking about embarrassing or hot-button issues. Many will fail.
At least 80 people have died throughout the state since the Camp and Woolsey fires broke out earlier this month. The official missing persons list spans 993 names.
Parents in many American households are finding the power struggles — tantrums, withdrawal and, in some cases, even school and discipline problems — difficult, especially as more kids get access to screens at younger and younger ages.
The Winona-Rochester Catholic diocese plans to file for bankruptcy to deal with more than 100 allegations of sexual abuse.
Five months after the Singapore summit, North Korea's nuclear program chugs on. "I think right now, we are absolutely stuck," says North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst.
When heated under proper conditions, turkey droppings transform into a form of coal, and serve as a renewable resource. Just think: Someday you might roast your holiday turkey using its own excrement.