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Some GOP power players are looking expectantly at Tim Pawlenty as their best chance to take a Senate seat in a Democratic-leaning state with an unorthodox streak.

Witnesses describe a white SUV smashing through pedestrians at high speed at an intersection in downtown Melbourne. Police say two people are in custody but that it is too early to determine a motive.

The family of an Australian woman fatally shot by a police officer in the United States in July has demanded a more rigorous probe into the incident after a Minnesota prosecutor cast doubts on the initial investigation.

Minnesota officials gave their first indication of the potential amount of environmental liability Minnesota's first ever copper-nickel mine could leave behind.

President Trump has prematurely declared "Obamacare" dead and displayed a misunderstanding of where the money comes from to make the health law work.

The opioid epidemic caused U.S. life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row, marking the first time that's happened since the early 1960s. Death rates also continued to rise.

Sure as sugarplums, myths and misconceptions pop up every holiday season. Here's what science says about some of them.