ST PAUL, Minn. — Shireen Gandhi is stepping down as the commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Human Services, and John Connolly will take over as the temporary commissioner, according to a news ...

The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft is underway in Pittsburgh. The Vikings used the No. 18 pick in Thursday's opening round on Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks. Minnesota took Banks even though ...

Chuck D Responds to Gene Simmons' 'Debatable' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Hip-Hop Claim The Public Enemy has weighed in after the KISS bassist said that hip-hop "doesn't belong in the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

In brief: X is trying to turn the Supreme Court's recent Cox decision into a weapon against the music publishers that sued the company in 2023. The move could deal a major blow to one of the music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Iranian officials have urged civilians in the Gulf region to report the locations of U.S. soldiers working ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

Minnesota has for decades been shifting toward outsourcing management of its social services system. Gov. Tim Walz is now looking to reverse that trend in an effort to prevent fraud. But the proposals ...

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New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced ...

The Rebel Loon has become a new tattooed symbol of resistance during the ongoing ICE protests in Minnesota. Trump’s Memorial Day remarks spark bipartisan criticism Serial-killer fears grow at tourist ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

Dozens of protesters were detained Monday night after making a lot of noise outside a hotel where they believed the Border Patrol commander was staying. Something troopers threatened to use to clear ...