The strikes by Iran were a major escalation of tensions that have been rising steadily across the Mideast following months of threats and attacks after President Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw America from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.
The U.S. killing last week of Gen. Qassem Soleimani has many worried about another war as Iran threatens to retaliate and the United States threatens to fight back. Minnesota is home to about 3,000 people with Iranian roots.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she predicted the escalating tension between the U.S. and Iran when the Trump administration walked away from the multi-lateral agreement to head off the country’s nuclear weapons program.
In 2019 Minnesota’s journalism scene expanded with the launch of an ambitious project called Sahan Journal. It is an online publication that focuses on the untold stories of Minnesota’s immigrants and refugees.
Saran Journal is an independent, nonprofit news organization led by editor and executive director Mukhtar Ibrahim. He writes, “the mission of Sahan Journal is to chronicle the struggles, successes and transformation of Minnesota’s new Americans, whose stories are often overlooked.”
As of mid-December, more than 56,000 people who had entered the United States seeking asylum from persecution had been sent back to Mexico to wait for their cases to be heard. They are there because of the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocol, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. That policy has been in effect since Jan. 24, 2019.
St. Paul-based immigration attorney Kim Hunter is spending six months serving as a Border Fellow with the Lawyers for Good Government Foundation’s Project Corazon. That project is bringing legal services to asylum seekers living in a tent city in Matamoros, Mexico, which is just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
The 1994 memoir opened a national dialogue about clinical depression and introduced readers to Wurtzel's brash, unapologetic voice. Wurtzel died of breast cancer at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he has secured the Republican votes needed to start President Trump’s impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses or documents that Democrats want.
"Every target that's being reviewed, every effort that's being made, will always be conducted inside the international laws of war," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said of potential strikes on Iran.
2019 is over, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss some of the best books published last year. Three bibliophiles share their favorite overlooked titles.
A fifth-generation Finnish dairy farm in northern Minnesota is exclusively breeding an A2 herd and preparing A2 milk, a product designed for easier digestion, for sale.
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Sean Adams' debut novel is set in the collapsed remains of a gargantuan, 500-story building somewhere in the American desert, once an entire metropolis and now surrounded by scavenger camps.
The band told Billboard that they fed their back catalog of more than 80 songs – plus a library of lyrics they liked – into machine learning models as source material.
It's the most diverse field ever, and the largest in at least 40 years. Democrats are entering a long, drawn-out primary process to take on President Trump in 2020.
Miranda Popkey's novel tackles the complicated issues of female desire, sex and failed relationships through a troubled, unnamed narrator who reports on her conversations with a series of other women.
Temperatures will swing dramatically over the next few days, ranging from subzero lows to highs in the 40s. Snow chances stay fairly limited, but a couple different rounds of snow are possible.
Ada Calhoun talked to a lot of Gen X women about the angst they feel as they approach midlife — the pressure to have it all and the feeling that they should have done better for themselves.
A cold front is trekking across Minnesota is causing temperatures to plummet. It also brings a few areas of light snow for Tuesday and windier conditions for the entire state.
One man was killed and at least eight people were injured. The quake was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, part of a 10-day series of temblors spawned by the grinding of tectonic plates along three faults beneath southern Puerto Rico.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the officer and a suspect were taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale for treatment. The suspect is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
While officials say American intelligence isn't clear on whether Iran's latest military moves are designed to bolster Tehran's defenses or prepare for an offensive strike, the U.S. is continuing to reinforce its own positions in the region, including repositioning some forces. One official said the U.S. anticipated a "major" attack of some type within the next day or two.
Authorities later delayed Gen. Qassem Soleimani's burial, citing concerns about the massive crowd that had gathered, the semi-official ISNA news agency said. It did not say when the burial would take place.
Georgia and Florida have been waging a decades-long legal battle over water resources. It's a problem likely to intensify in other areas as the climate warms.
The Hague Convention, signed by the U.S., requires "refraining from any act of hostility" against cultural property. The Pentagon educates troops about their obligations to safeguard such sites.
District Attorney Doug Evans filed a court order Monday recusing himself and asking the Mississippi attorney general's office to decide whether to try Curtis Flowers again in the death penalty case. On Dec. 16, Flowers was released from custody for the first time in 22 years after a judge granted a request for bail.
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