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A student raises his hand while attending an online class from home in Miami on Sept. 3.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA sweeping new review of national test data suggests the pandemi...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and police chief Medaria Arradondo said Monday they oppose a budget proposal that would shift nearly $8 million from the police department's 2021 budget.Late last wee...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., helped craft the bipartisan proposal.Toni Sandys | Pool, The Washington Post via APUpdated: 5:15 p.m. ETJust hours after a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers rev...

Christopher Krebs, recently ousted as director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is sworn in to testify last year on Capitol Hill.Carolyn ...

It was a contentious election season in 2020, but in the far northern Minnesota border city of International Falls, the political arguments this fall weren't about the presidential race. They were abo...

Throughout November, MPR News is featuring Indigenous Minnesotans making history to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.Mysti Babineau, 34, has been standing up for others since her youth. Her fa...

DevelopmentsFrom around the stateCOVID-19Tracking cases in MinnesotaSign upDaily analysis on COVID-19 in MN Minnesota health leaders pleaded with people prior to Thanksgiving not to celebrate outside ...

Several COVID-19 vaccines are being studied in trials around the country. Once the Food and Drug Administration authorizes a vaccine for use, health leaders must decide which groups of people get to r...

In a press conference Tuesday, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell said a shooting involving officers on the city's north end last weekend did not measure up to department standards. Axtell's ...

A key test for Joe Biden's presidency will be how he prevents the broad coalition that got him into the White House from splintering once he begins governing.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesJo...