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MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker will lead the city’s Fire Department in an interim role following the retirement this week of Chief Bryan Tyner, the city announced Monday.

Rucker first ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The cost of city tap water is increasingly becoming an issue across the Twin Cities area, where residents say they are being soaked by rising rates.

Water rates are rising by as much as 25% in some suburbs...Read more

Since Sean “Diddy” Combs’ spectacular fall from grace, a number of documentaries have come out of the woodwork. Most recently, the fallen rapper’s arch nemesis, 50 Cent, dropped “The Reckoning” on Netflix, that...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — When Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire earlier this year, it brought into question the fate of militias Israel cultivated during the devastating two-year war as an alternative ruling force in Gaza. ...Read more

The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance in California rose at twice the pace of inflation over the past three years, squeezing workers’ paychecks and small businesses alike.

More than 17 million Californians ...Read more

ATLANTA — The planned execution of a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering two women in Cobb County has been halted by a Fulton County judge.

Stacey Ian Humphreys, found guilty of shooting real estate agents Lori Brown ...Read more

A call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, coming after fresh U.S. talks with Ukraine, raised new questions over the prospects for a peace deal as the Kremlin signaled new complications.

Putin told Trump that Moscow ...Read more

NEW YORK — She’s putting the ‘B’ in billion.

Beyoncé is now a billionaire, making her the fifth musician to reach the nine-digit mark, according to Forbes.

The 44-year-old superstar joined her husband, Jay-Z, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly half of the people who died in domestic violence incidents in Minnesota last year were bystanders or those who were trying to intervene.

Even as the state’s total domestic violence-related ...Read more

From bans on declawing cats and plastic grocery bags to new anti-discrimination protections for students and cheaper insulin, a raft of new California laws takes effect Jan. 1, with others rolling out through 2026.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump held a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, according to the White House, a day after the U.S. leader met with his Ukrainian counterpart to discuss efforts to bring a halt to the ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Experts ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A dozen swans have died at Lake Eola in the past week, leaving Orlando officials fearing another outbreak of bird flu at the city’s signature park.

City Commissioner Patty Sheehan posted on Facebook ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans push to delist gray wolf and grizzly bear populations from Endangered Species Act protections, they now have an ally in the administration who has taken a skeptical view of the ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he asked Donald Trump for U.S. security guarantees lasting as long as half a century to help deter any future Russian invasion.

Current proposals under discussion as part of a ...Read more

The man accused of placing pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol said he targeted both parties because “they were in charge,” federal ...Read more

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation staged over two weeks earlier this month yielded more than 1,030 arrests of unauthorized immigrants with criminal backgrounds across the country, the Trump administration ...Read more

MIAMI — Cuban-American singer and Star Island resident Gloria Estefan, one of the most influential figures in Latin music history, was honored Sunday night during “A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music, “ a two-hour ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As "Avatar: Fire and Ash" headed to the big screen this month, theater owners held their breath.

In an uneven year that saw two billion-dollar hits and a viral "chicken jockey" craze, but also a disastrous...Read more

Feuding families. Tragic quests. Dead bodies. George Clooney and Sarah Snook. Broadway had plenty of variety on offer this past year. Here is our annual list, daringly ranked in order, of our top 10 Broadway shows of the ...Read more