Protesters responded Saturday to the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man fatally shot by a former Minnesota police officer, with a rally that drew about 200 people in Roxbury. Speakers mourned Wright, a 20-year-old who was killed when a police officer allegedly mixed up her Taser and gun during...
FOX Sports North Mar 14, 2021 at 1:18p ET Monday, March 8: Wild left wing Kevin Fiala celebrates after scoring a goal against the Vegas Golden Knights. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. AP Monday, March 8: Wild's Ian Cole celebrates with goalie Kaapo Kahkonen after their win over...
With the expanded postseason gone (for now), the 2021 season might well be the last with so much emphasis on winning the division in Major League Baseball. Sure, there could be some sort of realignment in the near future, but the likelihood is that this is the last season in this current format wh...
Andrea Jenkins vice president of the Minneapolis City Council spoke to community members at "The Path Forward" meeting at Powderhorn Park, a meeting between Minneapolis City Council and community members. (Photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Andrea Jenkins, the first Black openly tr...
'Moxie' Directed by Amy Poehler, this sassy version of an "ABC Afterschool Special" flies in the face of typical TV fare that insists teenage girls only have sex on their minds. Hadley Robinson, a dead ringer for a young Kirsten Dunst, plays a fed-up junior who secretly starts a feminist zine that...
People born in Hawaii have the highest life expectancy at birth of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which examined state-by-state mortality. The life expectancies by state, which were published in th...
Education BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Lesson plan included chart listing 5 types of oppression (DAILY TORCH) – A middle school choir teacher in Minnesota recently taught a class full of sixth-graders about various "types of oppression" by separating students into "privileged" and "targeted" categories. This...
Capitol Report Published: March 11, 2021 at 12:17 p.m. ET Widespread support exists for increased funding for U.S. antitrust enforcers alex edelman/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A growing bipartisan consensus on the need to strengthen the U.S. antitrust regime was on display during a Senate Judi...
Americans born in southern states faced the lowest life expectancies in 2018, according to a new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings, published in the National Vital Statistics Reports on Thursday, offer a hypothetical "snapshot" of mortality estimat...
The number of Americans affected by a cyber-attack on a cloud hosting and IT services provider has increased by 210,000. Netgain Technologies LLC, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was forced to take some of its data centers offline after falling victim to a ransomware attack on November 23 last year. A few...