Fighting to be in the next Democratic presidential debate, Cory Booker concluded a nearly 800-mile, 12-county tour of Iowa on Sunday by criticizing the Democratic Party for allowing “elites" and “money" to control who gets on stage and urging voters to offer his name when pollsters call.

A 12-year-old boy from New Ulm died in a snowmobile crash on Saturday, authorities said.

René Auberjonois, a prolific actor best known for his roles on the television shows “Benson” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and his part in the 1970 film “M.A.S.H.” playing Father Mulcahy, has died. He was 79.

The Minnesota Gophers football team will take on Auburn in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day in Tampa, Fla.

Danielle Hunter had three of Minnesota's five sacks to spearhead a resurgence by the defense, and the Vikings sailed past Detroit 20-7 on Sunday to send the Lions to their sixth straight loss.

It all started when a London primary school asked children to bring in a plastic tube containing approximately one tablespoon of homemade soup — the go-to soup recipes their families use when someone gets sick.

You don’t need to understand chemistry to know that if you add Alka-Seltzer to water, the water fizzes. If you bottle up the pressure from that chemical reaction over and over and release it all at once you could — say — launch a small rocket. That's exactly what a team of Minnesota students will do later this week.

If commissioners vote Monday to bar refugees, as expected, Burleigh County — home to about 95,000 people and the capital city of Bismarck — could become the first local government to do so since President Trump issued an executive order making it possible.

The shooter was an officer in the Saudi Air Force who was a student at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. The FBI said the Saudi government has pledged its cooperation.

Rapper Juice WRLD, who launched his career on SoundCloud before becoming a streaming juggernaut and rose to the top of the charts with the Sting-sampled hit “Lucid Dreams,” died Sunday after a “medical emergency” at Chicago's Midway International Airport.

Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the Sesame Workshop.

A competition brought hundreds of architects, designers and engineers together to build a mini version of the Italian city out of gingerbread, candy bars, jelly beans, cereal, gummy bears and more.

A new study finds time-restricted eating helped overweight people who were at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes to lose about 3 percent of their body weight, reduce belly fat and feel more energetic.

In Montana, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur wants to create a massive, privately funded public park. Some ranchers oppose the American Prairie Reserve and say they can better conserve the land.

The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on Saturday.

Organizers of the public event at the Hawaii naval base said attendees included about a dozen survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, the youngest of whom are now in their late 90s.

The old way to think about your dog's "human age" — the age in actual years times seven — is wrong. Researchers discovered that by looking at aging on the molecular level.

It's the holiday gift for when you can't think of what else to give — socks! And they're having their fashion-world moment, says Steven Frumkin, a dean at the Fashion Institute of Technology.