September 18, 2020

US banning use of WeChat, TikTok for national security

WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department will roll out a ban of transactions in the U.S. using TikTok and WeChat starting Sunday. The order Friday was […]
September 18, 2020

Norwegian architecture firm picked to design Roosevelt library in North Dakota

Snøhetta, led by founding partner Craig Dykers, beat out two other world-renowned firms, Chicago-based Studio Gang and Copenhagen-based Henning Larsen, in a final design competition […]
September 18, 2020

How the pandemic is widening the racial wealth gap

Nicole Xu for NPR Joeller Stanton used to be an assistant teacher at a private school in Baltimore and made about $30,000 a year. In […]
September 18, 2020

Coming up: How to work from home without hurting your back or losing focus 

More than six months ago, many of us had to scramble to create a home office.  Now, nearly half of the U.S. labor force is […]
September 18, 2020

Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race, […]
September 18, 2020

The Latest: India's virus surge continues with 96,000 cases

NEW DELHI — India’s coronavirus cases have jumped by another 96,424 infections in the past 24 hours, showing little signs of slowing down. The Health […]
September 17, 2020

California paid leave law among nation's broadest

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new law in California lets more people than almost anywhere else in the country take up to three months off from […]
September 17, 2020

Great Lakes shipping campaign hit hard by pandemic

“We’re weathering the storm,” Deb DeLuca, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, said Thursday, adding that she couldn’t think of anything in recent […]
September 17, 2020

Giuliani associates face new federal fraud charges

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors brought new wire fraud charges Thursday against an associate of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who was involved in […]
September 17, 2020

Minnesota hits end of $300 weekly jobless bonus

Minnesota exhausted its share of funds from a temporary federal program providing a $300 weekly bonus to unemployment payments, officials said Thursday. That will impact […]