Arts Briefs: Leadership change at Minnesota Orchestra; Plus: Black grandmothers in White Bear Lake and the Minnesota Dance Theatre and School picks a new program director.

An animal rescue center says a dehydrated coyote pup rescued by California firefighters has died

Organizers say they have enough signatures to get abortion-rights proposal on the Arkansas ballot

Rapidan Dam’s partial failure sent an estimated 11.6 million cubic yards of sediment downstream. Experts are worried about its ecological impacts and say it could take years to fully understand them.

Biden insists 'I'm staying in the race' as he fights for political survival after debate sparked Democratic panic

A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small city the focus of a national debate over press freedoms

Donald Trump has asked a federal judge to freeze the classified documents case against him in light of a Supreme Court ruling this week that said former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution

Amy Coney Barrett has been a firm member of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority she cemented four years ago on issues ranging from abortion to guns, but her latest opinions reflect an increasing willingness to occasionally step away from tha...

A dam in an eastern Wisconsin community has been breached, prompting people living downriver to be evacuated

Firefighters have made progress against a California wildfire that triggered extensive evacuation orders, but damage assessments have raised the number of destroyed structures to 25 and forecasters say heat and fire risk are expanding on the West Coa...