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The Minnesota legislature opened its session this week with a special ceremony for Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were victims of a political assassination eight months ago.
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It’s “El Mal” from the 2024 film “Emilia Perez" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2025. -
The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.
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The U.S. Supreme Court called President Trump's tariff policies unconstitutional under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there. -
Federal judges have been sounding the alarm about the way pregnant and nursing women are being treated in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. -
Its day 14 of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games. -
On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s ability to levy tariffs on other countries based on a law meant for national emergencies.
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The Winter Olympic Games underway in Italy are scattered across a vast region, from mountain villages in the Alps to Milan.
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College sports are in the middle of a financial arms race as schools race to pay their athletes increasingly lucrative name, image and likeness deals.
