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NHL Draft 2025: What’s each team’s biggest positional need for the future?
This is about projecting five years down the road, and mostly focusing on what teams have in their farm system.
Road Deaths Surge and Black Families Suffer Most
U.S. road deaths surge and Black families pay the highest price. Cars have killed 4 million Americans. We accept it. But we ...
Who are Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, the Minnesota state lawmakers shot on Saturday
Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, State Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses were all shot early Saturday in targeted ...
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Mass. pols condemn assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman
Massachusetts political leaders are condemning political violence after 55-year-old Minnesota state Sen. Melissa Hortman, a ...
Khamenei, Iran's political survivor, faces ultimate test
The Iranian opposition, both in exile and inside the country, remains riven by division. One of its most prominent ...
A broken taillight, a dead cop, a bombshell admission: Karen Read trial in hands of jury
A broken taillight. A dead cop. A bombshell admission. The jury is now deliberating over whether Karen Read killed John O'Keefe.
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A teenager with a job making burritos became a powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs
Melissa Hortman’ s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply ...
Melissa Hortman: Once a teenager with a job making burritos, she became a powerful MN lawmaker who trained service dogs
Melissa Hortman’ s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply ...
Who was Melissa Hortman? Minnesota lawmaker, husband assassinated in attack
Representative Melissa Hortman was the top Democratic lawmaker in the Minnesota House, and a former Speaker of the House.
Teenager with a job making burritos became powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs
Melissa Hortman was a lifelong Minneapolis-area resident who went to college in Boston and then returned home for law school. She was elected to the Minnesota House in 2004 and helped pass a sweeping ...
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The consequences of the Trump administration’s hostile empathy
A former intelligence officer's 1980 reflections on selecting Cold War targets are worth revisiting in the wake of the second Trump administration, but perhaps not for the reasons you might imagine.
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NIH Launches Major Autism Research Initiative
The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are leery of the new initiative, which they say is rushed and skirts typical ...