The Minnesota Legislature is back and in full swing and with it comes the return of Politics Friday, the weekly radio show and podcast from the politics team at MPR News.
Recycling “does not solve the solid waste problem,” the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
Joe Gothard has led the St. Paul Public Schools since 2017. Before that, he headed the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District. He’s a candidate now for superintendent in his hometown of Madison, Wis.
Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA women's career scoring record, making a 3-pointer from about 35 feet in the first quarter for No. 4 Iowa against Michigan on Thursday night.
A major Twin Cities internet provider says that it immediately fixed a problem that led to the inadvertent publication of thousands of its own and business clients’ emails. U.S. Internet said that no credit card or Social Security numbers were made public, and customers of the company’s fiber optic internet service were not affected.
An FBI informant has been charged with lying to authorities about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
The study looks at 6,000 patients who got abortion pills after an online appointment. It found that 99.7 percent of those abortions were not followed by any serious adverse events.
Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church.
The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday.