The attorneys who represented George Floyd’s family following his murder in 2020 are demanding a public apology after the Minnesota Republican Party honored Floyd’s convicted killer, former police ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Shireen Gandhi is stepping down as the commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Human Services, and John Connolly will take over as the temporary commissioner, according to a news ...

A former Minnesota state trooper alleged this week that his bosses at the state Department of Human Services tried to bully him into quashing his findings of fraud in the state’s child care funding ...

The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft is underway in Pittsburgh. The Vikings used the No. 18 pick in Thursday's opening round on Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks. Minnesota took Banks even though ...

In brief: X is trying to turn the Supreme Court's recent Cox decision into a weapon against the music publishers that sued the company in 2023. The move could deal a major blow to one of the music ...

A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed genome assembly (PIGA) method. By combining a ...

Minnesota has for decades been shifting toward outsourcing management of its social services system. Gov. Tim Walz is now looking to reverse that trend in an effort to prevent fraud. But the proposals ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

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New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced ...

The Rebel Loon has become a new tattooed symbol of resistance during the ongoing ICE protests in Minnesota. Trump’s Memorial Day remarks spark bipartisan criticism Serial-killer fears grow at tourist ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...