Beginning July 8, state public defenders outside of Hennepin County will no longer represent parents in child protection cases, or in specialty courts such as drug court, because of budget cuts. Children will wait longer in foster care.
An American history professor gives some history lessons and answers questions about the independence movement in the American colonies, the Continental Congress, and the Revolutionary War.
Israel says it is keeping Gaza's border crossings closed in retaliation for a rocket attack. Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner says all cargo passages remained shut Friday morning.
A new movie, "Gonzo: The Life and Times of Dr Hunter S. Thompson," opens across the country today. It examines the rise and fall of one of the great counter-cultural writers of the 60s and 70s.
Iran delivered its response Friday to an international offer ofincentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a central part of itsnuclear program, state television reported.
From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet.
President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday inwelcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello,saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
A ferocious wildire continued creeping closer to Big Sur Friday, after jumping a fire line and claiming more homes. An extended evacuation order now includes both sides of a 39-mile section of state Highway 1.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines ofracial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasionalfellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on theFourth of July.
The disgraced architect of Pakistan's nuclear program said Friday thatit provided centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised bythe army under President Pervez Musharraf.
A federal judge said that President Bush does not have theconstitutional authority to overstep the law establishing thegovernment's ability to conduct warrantless wiretaps on Americancitizens.
Families from Texas to the Dakotas and Maine to California have poured onto the National Mall in Washington this week, hoping to take in the sights, sounds and splendor of a Fourth of July in the nation's capital. Weather permitting,
On the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate America's liberty and independence, it's worth contemplating how much more free America is than most other nations in the West. Why? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. How very much
