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Filmmakers create a genre unknown in France

Filmmakers create a genre unknown in France

Unlike the U.S., France has no tradition of prison movies. So recently when a film opened in French cinemas about a young man trying to survive in a brutal Paris prison it electrified audiences. Now Minnesota audiences can see the movie, called "A Prophet," when it opens this weekend.
by Euan Kerr

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Liberians in U.S. wait to learn their future status

Liberians in U.S. wait to learn their future status

Even though they've built lives here, their time on U.S. soil may be nearing its end.

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Newscut blogger highlights census two-step

Newscut blogger highlights census two-step

You probably have not received your census form in the mail quite yet, but most American households have received an "advance letter" from the Census.
by Cathy Wurzer and Bob Collins

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Minn. bills would give same-sex couples death rights

Two bills up for hearings on Wednesday would give same-sex partners and other unmarried couples more rights when one partner dies.

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Newscut: Letters that make no census

Newscut: Letters that make no census

Letters are being sent to every household in America this week warning that a census form will soon follow. Newscut's Bob Collins roughly calculates just how expensive the mass-letter was.

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40 years later, Albert Lea looks back on Wilson strike

Before Albert Lea's United Packinghouse Workers Local 6 drew national attention in 1959 for their involvement with the Wilson & Co. strike, they were average citizens just trying to make a living.

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Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists

Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists

Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death.

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Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36

Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36

Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 31 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

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Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence

More than 200 bodies - many of them women and children - lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said Sunday, just months after religious violence tore through a nearby city and left hundreds dead.

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Minority-owned firms receiving fewer stimulus contracts

Minority-owned firms receiving fewer stimulus contracts

Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive and more closely track who receives government-financed work.

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