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Tell us something good about 2020
It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Nine months into the devastating pandemic, COVID-19 shows no signs of going away, while a bitter election season exposed just how divided A...
Dec 08, 2020
Hardly any 1918 flu memorials exist. Will we remember COVID-19 differently?
Architecture firm Gmez Platero is leading a $1.5 million project to create a monument to the victims of COVID-19 - the world's first large-scale memorial to those lost in a pandemic - on the shor...
Dec 08, 2020
What you need to know as MN prepares for COVID vaccine
Updated: 5 p.m.As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across Minnesota, with the state's death toll climbing above 4,000 people this week, Gov. Tim Walz offered a ray of hope today as he laid out a distr...
Dec 08, 2020
Simon warns senators not to spread election lies
DFL Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon warned lawmakers Tuesday against spreading "politically-inspired lies" about election integrity.Simon testified before the Senate elections committee durin...
Dec 08, 2020
Former cybersecurity chief sues Trump campaign and others, charging defamation
Former cybersecurity chief Christopher Krebs says he was defamed by the Trump campaign and attorney Joseph diGenova.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagChristopher Krebs, who was fired by P...
Dec 08, 2020
How do you stick a tracker on a polar bear?
Here's the problem. Polar bears live in some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible habitat on earth - tough for humans and practically anything people make. "They're in the Arctic. They're in and ...
Dec 08, 2020
National panel recommends Burrell's immediate release
A national panel of legal experts recommended the immediate release of a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager nearly two decades ago. They also said Minnesota police appeared to have su...
Dec 08, 2020
Biden expected to nominate Gen. Lloyd Austin as defense secretary
Gen. Lloyd Austin addresses military recruits during an induction ceremony in Tampa, Fla., in 2015.Phelan M. Ebenhack | APUpdated: 9:25 p.m. ETPresident-elect Joe Biden plans to name Lloyd Austin, the...
Dec 08, 2020
Biden's defense pick raises concerns over civilian control of the military
Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin is President-elect Joe Biden's pick for defense secretary, the top civilian post at the Pentagon. Nominating a recently retired military officer will require a waiver fr...
Dec 07, 2020
Sounders score twice late, stun Minnesota United 3-2
As the confetti flew and the fireworks popped before an empty stadium, the Seattle Sounders were handed the Western Conference championship trophy for the fourth time in five years.Only a few minutes ...
Dec 07, 2020