By JOSH FUNK Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the $9.6 million fine isn’t … Continued
The Trump administration has begun deploying upwards of 2,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities as part of a 30-day surge that seeks to escalate a federal immigration crackdown and growing fraud investigations, according to law enforcement sources cited by … Continued
By MARC LEVY SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don’t want to … Continued
Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.” Smith, 111, died of … Continued
By MATT O’BRIEN Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do … Continued
Kaohly Her, the newly sworn-in mayor of St. Paul, has announced several key hires who will serve as top staffers in her administration, including four assistant mayors. Her will ditch precedent and abandon the traditional mayor/deputy mayor structure, opting instead … Continued