Data from Johns Hopkins University showed the U.S. passing 25 million confirmed coronavirus cases as of Sunday morning. The true number of cases, however, is likely far higher

Our weekend winter storm dropped a half-foot of snow across parts of southern Minnesota from Saturday into early Sunday. Minneapolis and St. Paul are among the communities that have declared snow emergencies.

Vaccinations for people age 65 and older have started at nine sites across Minnesota and continue through Saturday. The pilot program, new this week, was quickly overwhelmed and officials say they are working out some problems ahead of another signup scheduled for Tuesday.

President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military, dumping a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office, a person briefed on the decision tells the Associated Press.

Governor Tim Walz is pushing a goal for Minnesota to produce 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, a decade earlier than he previously proposed. 

In the past few months, people who live along Duluth's Park Point spit have been picking up shredded aluminum cans — by the bagful — on the neighborhood's Lake Superior beach. The metal fragments were inadvertently deposited there last fall, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged sediment from the harbor to help build back the eroding beach.

President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials.

Top aides to President Joe Biden on Sunday began talks with a group of moderate Senate Republicans and Democrats on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

During a career spanning more than six decades, Cicely Tyson has brought to life iconic roles in theater, film and television. And now, in a new memoir, she sets forth her improbable journey, from the typing pool at the Red Cross to award-winning actor and icon of style.

A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial, a sign of dimming chances that former President Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, now President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser on COVID-19, says he rejoiced when the new president said that "science and truth" would guide the nation's policies toward the pandemic.

An Associated Press survey of law enforcement agencies nationwide found that at least 31 officers in 12 states are being scrutinized by their supervisors for their behavior in the District of Columbia, or face criminal charges for participating in the riot.

Minnesota consistently lands on lists of states with the best health care. But if you’re Indigenous or a person of color, you’re not included in the high marks the state receives in metrics like health care access or public health outcomes. Join MPR News host Angela Davis for our latest In Focus event, a conversation with advocates and health care providers working to address racial disparities in health care.

Eleven miners have been rescued in China after a harrowing two weeks spent trapped 2,000 feet below ground.

The censures of Sen. John McCain’s widow, along with former Sen. Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey, are merely symbolic. But they show that many party activists are focused on enforcing loyalty to Trump.

Two more men have pleaded guilty to federal arson charges for their roles in a fire that damaged a Minneapolis police station during civil unrest in the days following the death of George Floyd, prosecutors announced.

While many Republicans are eager to move on from the former president and his personality-driven, racially divisive politics, Trump's acolytes across the country — including Mike Lindell and others in Minnesota — are already preparing to pick up the torch.

Photographer David Gilkey died in 2016 while on assignment in Afghanistan. His mother, Alyda Gilkey, remembers the man behind the lens: an adventurous soul who had a way of putting his subjects at ease.