The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment outside her ...

A House-Senate conference committee should scrub the new law or push out the start date, writes columnist Rochelle Olson.

Downtown St. Paul is at a crossroads — and the time to act is now by investing in a renovated arena. As proud residents and ...

To guard against this corruption, the Emoluments Clause was included in Section 9 of Article I. It was called the Foreign ...

After the lunchtime rush, it's time for China's food delivery drivers to eat. Liu Lijie, halfway through a 13-hour workday, parked his electric scooter in front of a restaurant in Beijing for his ...

Thanks to a new effort from the Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz, relief might be on the way for Minnesotans who have trouble ...

Removing PFAS from east metro drinking water is urgent, but cities and towns can’t afford water treatment improvements on ...

Gabriel Arias had a three-run double in the fourth inning, José Ramírez stole three bases and five Cleveland pitchers combined on a shutout as the Guardians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-0 on Monday ...

Australia's Cabinet was sworn into office Tuesday after the center-left Labor Party was reelected in a landslide May 3.

A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people ...

An attack by a jihadi group in northern Burkina Faso killed more than 100 people, mostly soldiers, an aid worker and local residents said Monday.

The sheriff in New Mexico's most populous county is crediting his department's drone program for helping disarm two children and prevent what could have been a worse outcome.