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Gophers basketball standout Garcia recovering from foot surgery
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Costly, hard-to-find insurance keeping THC beverages off some Minnesota menus
St. Louis Park VR company helps Gates Foundation spread awareness to eradicate polio worldwide
Minneapolis businesses organize against proposed medical respite homeless shelter
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Minnetonka teenager singlehandedly organizes nonprofit and travels to Tanzania to coach girls in running
Philly's NBA coach digs Prince so much he's throwing a party at Paisley Park
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Lileks: Power's out; better eat the ice cream
When the power goes out, we're all in the dark — but not just literally.
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Scoggins: Local runner earns 50 States Marathon Club honors
After 20 years of chasing a dream, Micah Grafenstein-Kinzel ran a marathon in Helena, Mont., in June to become the 68th member from Minnesota to run a marathon in all 50 states.
Laura Yuen
Yuen: Seriously, what purpose do mosquitoes serve?
They're responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people a year. They annoy the hell out of the rest of us. Can't we eradicate them?
Jim Souhan
Souhan: Frazier family's Minnesota boxing pedigree spreads to Olympics
Hailing from the family-run Circle of Discipline gym, Adonis Frazier will coach with Team USA boxing in Paris in search of gold medals and a growing legacy.
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Biden's campaign chair acknowledges support 'slippage' but says he's staying in the race
GOP U.S. Senate hopefuls Royce White and Joe Fraser spar over conservative credentials, issues
Purple reign: Being a legislator in a swing district means frequent voter contact
Trump urges unity after assassination attempt while proposing sweeping populist agenda in RNC finale
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University of Florida president Ben Sasse is resigning after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy
Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg released from jail after serving perjury sentence
Vaccines significantly reduce the risk of long COVID, study finds
'One screen, two movies': Conflicting conspiracy theories emerge from the Trump rally shooting
World
Russia convicts US reporter of espionage after a trial widely seen as politically motivated
Pakistan says it arrested an al-Qaida leader who was a close aide to Osama bin Laden
Drone strike by Yemen's Houthi rebels kills 1 person and wounds at least 10 in Tel Aviv
The Ukrainian army pulls out from another eastern village as Russia smashes defensive positions
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Why Wisconsin claims — incorrectly — to have more lakes than the Land of 10,000 Lakes
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Shannen Doherty finalized divorce hours before death
Cheng Pei-pei, martial arts actor who starred in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,' dies at age 78
Lou Dobbs, conservative pundit and longtime cable TV host for Fox Business and CNN, dies at 78
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and journalist Willow Bay to become Angel City FC's new owners
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