The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd's family over the Black man's death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer's murder trial.
A pair of Seattle buddies helped the team begin the second half of the NBA season in style.
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, some early efforts to ease the burden on Minnesota health care workers have shifted focus for the long haul.
"The Earth is getting angry with us," says the Pulitzer winner, part of a special Talking Volumes series on race in America.
A jury of 14, two of them alternates, will be seated before opening statements and testimony begin March 29 before District Judge Peter Cahill.
In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden was "Sheriff Joe," the enforcer making sure federal dollars from a massive economic aid package were getting to the right places and quickly.
Facing unprecedented political isolation, a defiant New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Friday that he would not step down in the wake of sexual harassment allegations and condemned the sprawling coalition of Democrats calling for his resignation as "reckless and dangerous."