A new memorial will be placed for a man lynched along the Red River in Grand Forks.The crime is nearly 140 years old. The effort to redress the injustice, more than two decades in the making. His name was Charles Thurber, a Black man in his 30s, hung by a mob of hundreds. The marker has been in the works for years, but the killing of George Floyd was a catalyst to finally get it installed.
The latest on COVID-19 in Minnesota: Total cases top 66k. New cases were way down Tuesday but so was testing volume — the drop could be attributable to the lower number of tests. The number of people in intensive care is roughly flat at 154. The number of deaths trended up slightly to nine. Overall - the outbreak appears to be stable, as health officials have been saying in recent days, but at a relatively high number of active cases.
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This year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally drew more than 460,000 vehicles during the 10-day event, according to a count South Dakota transportation officials released Tuesday.
The virtual Democratic convention will usher in a revamped process for the roll call, where delegates from all 57 states and territories will appear on video to formally nominate Joe Biden as the party’s presidential nominee. Watch live beginning at 8 p.m.
As the U.S. marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, many event organizers have been careful to present it as a commemoration, not a celebration. That's because when the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, it was mostly white women who benefited.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has announced he will suspend the controversial changes he instituted to the U.S. Postal Service until after the November election.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign information to a Russian intelligence officer during the 2016 election, a new bipartisan Senate report concludes.
Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s campaign and other Republican entities backed off a legal challenge Tuesday to new Minnesota absentee ballot rules.
