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  • LindellPolitics

    MAGA’s ‘MyPillow Guy,’ Mike Lindell, challenges Tim Walz in run for Minnesota governor

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • OspreyLifestyle

    ‘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 EllisonLaw

    ‘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
  • This image provided by Allianz Life Insurance Company shows the Allianz Life Insurance Company logo. (Allianz Life Insurance Company via AP)Cybersecurity

    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 PutinPolitics

    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 NewsomPolitics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Tech

    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)Retail

    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)Retail

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

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
  • Donald Trump wavesPolitics

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

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press