December 31, 2020

Hedge fund Alden offers to buy Tribune, valuing it at $521M

Hedge fund Alden, Tribune’s largest shareholder, has offered to buy the rest of the newspaper publisher at a price that values it at $520.6 million. […]
December 31, 2020

Cellphones offer look back at most personal moments of 2020

A year like no other: Americans shambled through it, doing the best they could under circumstances that were uneven at best — and sometimes downright […]
December 31, 2020

Major US stock indexes waver on final day of tumultuous year

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks wavered between small gains and losses in late morning trading Thursday but hovered near record highs as investors close the […]
December 31, 2020

French traders, EU sound alarm over US tit-for-tat tariffs

PARIS — French wine exporters warned Thursday that they’ll take a billion-euro hit in 2021 from the latest ratcheting-up of punitive tariffs between the United […]
December 31, 2020

Security firms say suspicious object on oil tanker off Iraq

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sailors involved in transferring fuel oil from an Iraqi tanker in the Persian Gulf to another vessel owned by a […]
December 31, 2020

Work begins to turn SC racist store into racial harmony site

LAURENS. S.C. — Regan Freeman had spent more than a year organizing a project to tell the story of a Black South Carolina pastor who […]
December 31, 2020

Virtual STEM classes keep kids engaged during pandemic

“They’re looking for something to do,” Forestview Middle School multimedia specialist Jim Reed said of his students during this unusual time. In normal years, Reed […]
December 31, 2020

Wood and water make Wadena distillery shine

Their creations of vodka, rum and bourbon are going over well with guests to the store, according to general manager James Muston, who shared about […]
December 31, 2020

Tokyo trading closed for holiday, other Asian indexes mixed

TOKYO — Major Asian bourses were closed for the New Year’s holidays Thursday while the handful that remained open was mixed. Australia’s S&P/ASX fell 0.8% […]
December 31, 2020

How a Lake Street shopping center and the lives behind it are rebuilding after riots

At the corner of Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, workers are erasing the scars left by one of the most turbulent weeks in […]