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Countdown to Super Bowl 2018: Minnesota takes the ball
Super Bowl 51 is over, and preparation for the next game, which is coming to U.S. Bank Stadium next February, has begun.
Long before there was 'fake news,' there were 'fake photos'
The pictures of 19th-century Egypt and other scenes, in an exhibit at the Clark Art Institute, don't always show the truth.
Minnesota artists question state grant process
One painter thinks she may have been denied a state grant because she was pregnant.
Rochester eyes 'game changer' transit plan. Will public get on board?
The city hopes to add 30,000 jobs over the next 20 years as Mayo Clinic expands. But that growth could make downtown a mess if city leaders don't figure out how to handle the traffic.
U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That's the biggest gain since September, and it exceeded last year's monthly average of 187,000.
Building, and losing, a career on Facebook
What a meme-maker and an investigative journalist teach us about the power of the Facebook empire, and how its opaque decisions harm real people.
Uber CEO leaves business council after criticism from Trump opponents
Travis Kalanick said in an email to employees, "Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the President or his agenda but unfortunately it has been misinterpreted to be exactly that."