Once considered niche, speech therapy is more widely available for transgender people who want to sound more like themselves.

Minnesota's legislative auditor will investigate concerns over how state regulators handled an important water quality permit for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine.

The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project encountered a major setback when the Buffalo-Red River Watershed District and its managers voted against a permit for the $2.75 billion project at a meeting Monday night.

Authorities say the suspect was 14 at the time Susan Spiller was killed, and that his fingerprints from a recent unrelated case were found to have matched those taken from the scene of Spiller's death.

Minnesota DFL Congresswoman Ilhan Omar joined Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and others Monday to highlight legislation that would erase the student debt of millions of Americans.

Minnesotans will have a chance this week to weigh in on a proposal to end federal protection for nearly all gray wolves in the lower 48 states.

City officials say they intend to have significant input from communities of color for Upper Harbor Terminal in north Minneapolis.

Despite an increase in the population this year, the number of North American monarchs making their seasonal migration has been falling dramatically over the past 20 years. And if monarchs don't migrate, they die.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday pitched a sweeping overhaul of the nation's systems for securing its elections, including the creation of a "uniform federal ballot" and the replacement of the independent commission that currently helps administer the vote.

An early member of the Trump campaign and Melania Trump's longtime spokeswoman, Grisham has been a staunch defender of the first lady. She will also take over as White House communications director.

John Sanders is expected to make his resignation effective July 5, two officials said. The move comes after hundreds of children were removed from a facility without adequate food and sanitation.

"In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration," President Trump tweeted. The U.S. slapped additional sanctions on Iran on Monday after Trump opted against a military strike last week.

U.S. government officials say they've moved more than 100 kids back to a remote border facility where lawyers reported detained children were caring for each other and had inadequate food, water, and sanitation.

Rose Cleveland served as first lady during her brother Grover Cleveland's first term. Evangeline Simpson was a widow who would marry Minnesota Episcopal bishop Henry Whipple. Their correspondence -- and romance -- spanned decades.

Tehran says Trump's sanctions to cut off the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marks "the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy."

Prompted by a request by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the department's acting inspector general said he will look into what led to a postponement of the abolitionist's appearance on the note.

Former festival manager Carr Hagerman is charged in the rape of a freelance photographer in 2017. His attorney wants the alleged victim's medical records admitted as evidence, saying she made contradictory statements about a later assault.

A broad executive order issued Monday is supposed to help consumers get better estimates of health care costs. But whether it will be a game changer depends on the details, say health care analysts.

The collection of 32 mostly previously published essays by New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum includes a new consideration of the question: "What should we do with the art of terrible men?"