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Your rights, rules at the polls in Minnesota

By Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton If you show up to the polls wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat ...

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Quincy Jones, music titan who worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, dies at 91

Quincy Jones, the multitalented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to ...

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Harris and Trump make a furious final push before Election Day

RALEIGH, N.C. — A presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed ...

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US employers added just 12,000 jobs last month as hurricanes and strikes sharply reduce payrolls

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held ...

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Musk tests the role of money in U.S. politics with multimillion-dollar effort to back Trump

WASHINGTON — Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It’s also ...

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Should Minnesota continue to put lottery dollars toward the environment?

By Dan Kraker There’s a question tucked on Minnesota ballots this election that’s flying a bit under the ...

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A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics, but landmark reforms remain elusive

WASHINGTON — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two ...

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A Minnesota woman is accused of turning in a ballot for her dead mother. A routine check caught it

A northern Minnesota woman accused of trying to submit a mail ballot for her recently deceased mother has ...

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Trump’s Madison Square Garden event features crude and racist insults

NEW YORK — Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square ...

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Ron Ely, TV’s ‘Tarzan’ in the 1960s, dies at 86

LOS ANGELES — Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC ...

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Postal Service reassures on mail ballots, says all centers operating in regions hit by hurricanes

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. Postal Service has reopened all of its mail processing centers in areas of ...

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Renew it or lose it; lawmaker asks voters not to skip ballot question on lottery amendment

By Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton This fall, Minnesotans will vote on whether to renew a proposal earmarking some money from ...

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Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’s

WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of ...

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10 days, 10,000 objects and one very large kiln

Alex V. Cipolle The largest wood-burning kiln in North America just completed its 10-day firing at St. John’s ...

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One of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II dies at 107

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.  — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages ...

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