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Thursday snow slows traffic; weekend forecast includes normal temps, some rain and snow
Before I jump into the weekend forecast, here's an update on our Thursday afternoon snowy mess.A band of heavy snow has severely reduced visibilities in parts of eastern and south-central Minnesota th...
Nov 12, 2020
Michael Osterholm speaks at St. Olaf College on facing winter of 'COVID hell'
Infectious disease expert Dr. Michael Osterholm says we're facing a winter of "COVID hell."Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, took ...
Nov 12, 2020
China is inoculating thousands with unapproved COVID-19 vaccines. Why?
A staff member checks vaccines at a Beijing factory built by Sinovac to produce a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine. Sinovac is one of 11 Chinese companies approved to carry out clinical trials of potentia...
Nov 12, 2020
Obama tells his story his way
"A Promised Land" by Barack ObamaCrownIn the spring of 2004, a young state legislator was driving home from a campaign event in rural Illinois when he got a phone call from Washington. A voi...
Nov 12, 2020
Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz
Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that "change has come to Georgia."Hours earlier...
Nov 11, 2020
Biden moves forward without help from Trump's intel team
The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W. Bush read the ultra-secret daily brief of the nation's most sensitive intell...
Nov 11, 2020
Snow squalls disrupt travel into Thursday afternoon
A band of intense snow is moving through parts of eastern Minnesota Thursday morning. A narrow band of heavy snow will impact the Twin Cities metro this morning. Conditions will rapidly deteriorate wi...
Nov 11, 2020
Virus surge engulfs U.S. with millions of new cases
Texas on Wednesday became the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and California closed in on that mark as a surge of coronavirus infections engulfs the country.In New York,...
Nov 11, 2020
Biden names longtime aide Ron Klain as White House chief of staff
Ron Klain has been named President-elect Joe Biden's chief of staff.Mark Wilson | Getty ImagesUpdated: 8:19 p.m. ETPresident-elect Joe Biden has named his longtime aide Ron Klain to be White Hous...
Nov 11, 2020
Pfizer CEO sold millions in stock after coronavirus vaccine news, raising questions
Albert Bourla, chair and CEO of Pfizer, sold millions of dollars' worth of company stock on Monday as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan...
Nov 11, 2020