September 18, 2020

Drug shows promise in 1st largely minority COVID-19 study

A drug company said Friday that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 […]
September 18, 2020

Judge blocks Michigan's ban on transporting voters to polls

LANSING, Mich. — A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s longstanding ban on transporting voters to the polls, ruling it conflicts with U.S. election law. District […]
September 18, 2020

AP-NORC poll: Majority plan to vote before Election Day

DENVER — A majority of President Donald Trump’s supporters plan to cast their ballot on Election Day, while about half of Joe Biden’s backers plan […]
September 18, 2020

Stove company is fueling a revival of small town Tower, Minn.

Reputedly shy, an animated Daryl Lamppa went into sharp detail about how his 85-year-old, fourth-generation business could be on the verge of the first zero-emission […]
September 18, 2020

U.S. banning use of WeChat, TikTok for national security

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