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Osprey

‘OK, this is not your average bird’: Minnesota high school football team’s season delayed by nesting Osprey in floodlights

By Mark Vancleave, Steve Karnowski, and others

A princess butter sculpture is sculpted.

Arts & Entertainment

In Minnesota, ‘dairy princesses’ take home a 90-pound butter bust of their own heads

By Mark Vancleave, Steve Karnowski, and others

Keith Ellison

‘This isn’t about free speech. I’m sure they’re gonna holler that’: Minnesota sues TikTok, accusing it of preying on the young

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Allianz Life says hackers accessed personal data on the majority of its 1.4 million US customers

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Vladimir Putin

64-year-old retired Army officer who used foreign online dating site pleads guilty to sharing classified Russia info

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Gavin Newsom

California pampers its chickens and Americans pay the price, Trump argues in new DOJ lawsuit

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

In this courtroom sketch, Investigators say Vance Boelter appeared to spend months preparing for the shootings — the latest in a string of political attacks across the U.S.(Cedric Hohnstadt via AP)

Minnesota shooting suspect had over 45 Democrat politicians on his list of potential targets

By Steve Karnowski, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

A Sibley County Sheriff’s Deputy blocks the road where the suspect involved in the shooting of two state lawmakers vehicle was found Sunday, June 15, 2025, in Faxon Township, Minn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught

By Obed Lamy, Steve Karnowski, and others

FILE – House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, attends a press conference in St. Paul, Minn., June 14, 2021. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP File)

Melissa Hortman was once a teenager with a job making burritos then became a powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs

By John Hanna, Steve Karnowski, and others

Law enforcement officers including local police, sheriffs and the FBI, stage less than a mile from a shooting in Brooklyn Park, Minn. on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)

Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers

By Tim Sullivan, Steve Karnowski, and others

FILE – Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk walks to the stage to speak at the Butler Farm Show, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Elon Musk defends political deepfakes on X in latest free speech battle

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

A community advocate cuts a Target credit card during a news conference outside Target Corporation’s headquarters Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Target hit with national boycott call over decision to drop DEI initiatives

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 05 2024: Girls walk into a Lululemon shop in a department store in Shanghai, China. (Photo credit should read WANG GANG / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Couple charged with stealing $1 million from Lululemon in elaborate no-receipt refund scam

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Donald Trump waves

Immigrant from Peru explains why he cast ballot for Trump as early voting begins

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz just kicked off their campaign in Philadelphia

By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, and others