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UNITED NATIONS — After the launch this week of an intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley and her counterparts from Japan and the Republic of Korea requested an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting. At the Council meeting late Wednesday, the United States set out a path […]

MINNEAPOLIS — A new statement from Garrison Keillor raises questions about allegations of improper behavior that led Minnesota Public Radio to terminate his contracts. Keillor said Wednesday he had been fired, and MPR soon confirmed the move. MPR said the allegation involved one person who worked with Keillor on “A […]

Wall Street saw fireworks on Wednesday, as technology stocks got hammered in what looks like “rotation” selling run amok. The FAANG stocks and semiconductors (leading issues for the market in 2017) suffered as wild selling on Nasdaq led to their worst falls in months. But bitcoin also went wild, rising above […]

Last Updated Nov 29, 2017 8:50 PM EST MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota woman broke barriers over the weekend as the first contestant with Down syndrome to compete in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. CBS Minnesota reports Mikayla Holmgren — a 22-year-old dancer and Bethel University student — took home two awards […]

Two French daredevils have redefined the idea of catching a flight. In theory, their stunt was quite simple. All Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet had to do was strap on a wingsuit, then leap from a 13,000-foot mountain in the Swiss Alps and fly into the open door of a […]

COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla.  — Surveillance video confirms that a missing northern Florida teen is with a high school soccer coach, investigators say, and police believe the two are heading north. 17-year-old Caitlyn Frisina is believed to have left her home in Columbia County voluntarily sometime late Saturday night or early […]

A painting of the Statue of Liberty at a new art exhibition in New York seems ordinary enough — painted with bold strokes depicting the copper statue in shades of blue, towering, faceless, over the city’s harbor.  But the artwork, like the other pieces in the show, was produced by […]

NEW YORK — The lawyer for Matt Lauer’s accuser is praising NBC for acting “quickly and responsibly” to fire the “Today” show host for alleged sexual abuse.  NBC News fired Lauer for what it said Wednesday was “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a colleague, making him perhaps the most familiar figure in […]

Last Updated Nov 29, 2017 6:20 PM EST NEW YORK — The lawyer for a woman who made a detailed complaint about Matt Lauer is praising NBC for acting “quickly and responsibly” to fire the “Today” show host for alleged sexual abuse.  NBC News fired Lauer for what it said […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Generations of native Sami people living in remote northern Norway have been victims of rape and child sex abuse that has gone largely unreported and uninvestigated, police have acknowledged in a report citing deep failings in the way authorities operated there. A police report covering the period […]