Minnesota is in the middle of a historically warm and snow-free start to winter
With no snow in Minnesota so far this winter, small businesses that depend on it are struggling.
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From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'
If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.
A new California law restricts carrying guns in public — testing the Second Amendment
Gun owners in California can no longer carry firearms into a range of locations deemed "sensitive spaces." It is already facing all kinds of hurdles in the courts.
Ex-Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses must pay $260,000
The federal judge's ruling on Kim Davis is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued.
Trump appeals Colorado ballot ruling
Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a landmark decision by Colorado's top court that ruled him ineligible from appearing on that state's primary ballot.
Artificial intelligence faces more legal challenges
Legal challenges to the development and use of generative AI are accumulating. Developers are confronting potential legal minefields involving privacy, cybersecurity and defamation.
Migrants find warmth and safety in a widow's failing Denver motel
A lonely widow took in migrants for free at her failing Denver motel. Hundreds now have a warm, safe place to sleep and are showering her with gratitude.
Remembering jazz pianist and 'Compared to What' singer Les McCann
The pianist Les McCann, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 88, was known for his song "Compared to What." But he had a long and celebrated expansive career that preceded — and followed — that hit.
The legendary jazz concert with Charlie Parker playing plastic sax has been reissued
Seventy years ago, Charlie Parker and four other be-bop legends created what many call the greatest jazz concert ever— with Parker playing a plastic saxophone. A reissue of the recording is out.
Finding a tasteful design for Arkansas' 'monument to the unborn' has been fraught
A law passed in Arkansas last year calls for the creation of a donation-funded memorial on state capitol grounds, to commemorate fetuses aborted when Roe v. Wade was legal.