The nation marks Juneteenth the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Kicking off events in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz proclaimed Friday as Juneteenth Freedom Day and called on the Legislature to make June 19 a state holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States.
Minneapolis is a case study in a city that embraced the pillars of the final report from the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, a signature blueprint from the Obama era on how to reform American law enforcement. After five years, the city is no closer to achieving the primary objective of creating trust between police and the communities they serve.
Kaepernick's charity paying for defense of those arrested for violating curfew in Twin Cities.
Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Friday:
Amid nationwide unrest and a global pandemic that wrecked the state budget, Tennessee lawmakers advanced one of the strictest abortion bans in the country as most Tennesseans were asleep Friday and largely unaware the GOP-dominant General Assembly had taken up the controversial proposal.
The City Council will vote Friday on a plan that would grant a scooter vendors more time to install a locking feature.
With state and federal help, the shipyard could serve nearly 200 additional Great Lakes vessels.
Printing industry veteran Charlie Whitaker will lead 12,000-employee graphics communications giant.
The Cruise Lines International Association announced Friday that ships will not be sailing from U.S. ports throughout the summer, extending a pause put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizers of a peaceful march in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, area on Friday to celebrate Juneteenth and denounce racial injustice said threats by city leaders and a federal prosecutor contributed to a low turnout, but promised there would be a better showing at a weekend protest.
The Rev. Michel Mulloy of South Dakota will be ordained a bishop Oct. 1.
Republicans who control the state Senate have signaled that they plan to adjourn Friday night or early Saturday, with or without agreement on new law enforcement initiatives.
The Trump administration Friday moved forward with a rule that rolls back health care protections for transgender people, even as the Supreme Court barred sex discrimination against LGBT individuals on the job.
The Belmont is normally the final leg of racing's Triple Crown. But because of the pandemic it is first in line this year and set for Saturday afternoon.
Some of the pop-up food shelves have closed or partnered with others.
State regulators determined that an Iowa concrete company failed to pay a mandated prevailing wage to 70 workers.
C.H. Robinson, other state firms boost PPE supply.
President Donald Trump says that mail-in voting presents the greatest threat to his reelection hopes and he suggested that legal efforts in several states launched by his allies might decide November's election.
Kicking off events in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz proclaimed Friday as Juneteenth Freedom Day and called on the Legislature to make June 19 a state holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States.
Northpond Partners say they are removing the name of the slavery advocate the building was named after.
Blue Barn is bringing back its chicken in a waffle cone, Pop Rocks French toast and more.
Vikings team operations manager Paul Martin drives a par four, finds his golf ball in the cup.
A new proposal to give Georgia a law penalizing hate crimes — under attack from advocates who say it's too broad it would penalize crimes against nearly everyone and also lacks key protections for transgender people — rolled onto the runway Thursday and promptly went back to the hangar for more work.