MINNEAPOLIS — Americans have never been richer.

Personal wealth has more than doubled in the past decade, reaching nearly $186 trillion in the second quarter, Federal Reserve data shows.

The most affluent Americans hold a disproportionate share of that wealth, though. For the majority in the middle, much of what they have is tied up in homes...Read more

DENVER — Coloradans face a slew of tax questions on their ballot this year — some with obvious interconnections, and others not so clear. Depending on which ones pass, they could reshape the state’s tax code significantly.

For more than three decades, Colorado fiscal policy has been governed by the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of ...Read more

British actor Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at 86. His spokesperson said Thursday that he died from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

The two conditions often occur together, said University of California, Los Angeles neurology professor Dr. Keith Vossel, and when that happens, the individual’s decline may be faster.

Lewy body ...Read more

When picking up groceries requires a two-hour round trip, fresh produce can become a luxury. As a food systems researcher, I see this tension firsthand: People need fresh food to be healthy, but rural regions increasingly lack access to it.

Food insecurity among rural households increased from 12% in 2019 to nearly 16% in 2024, ...Read more

In a 2025 investigation, The New York Times reported that officials in President Joe Biden’s administration, in the wake of Biden’s 2020 election win, had viewed rising immigration as “a distraction” best ignored so that the administration could concentrate political resources on more important economic matters.

Scott Shuchart...Read more

At a campaign rally, in Port Huron, Michigan, on Oct. 25, 2026, President Donald Trump accused U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of being a “jihadist” who wants to impose Sharia law – Islamic law – in the United States. His comments reflect a broader pattern among Republican politicians of portraying Sharia as a threat to the ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Vice President JD Vance will not be traveling to Minnesota on Friday morning after all, according to the spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. The cancellation comes hours after the vice president’s office said Vance would be in St. Cloud with a fraud-related announcement.

White House officials did ...Read more

California’s proposed billionaires tax is losing support days before Election Day, according to the second major independent poll released this week.

Thursday’s poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley found 42% of likely voters in favor of Proposition 40 and 50% opposed, with 8% undecided. In a mid-September Berkeley ...Read more

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry says she threw a drink at a man after he said “something truly vile to me” during an incident at a Washington Wizards game last week that reportedly led to McHenry resigning from her job with the U.S. Department of State the following day.

Video footage, posted by TMZ, from the Wizards’ game against the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice sent subpoenas to at least two California election officials earlier this month, ordering them to appear before a grand jury on Nov. 4, the morning after voting ends in the midterm elections, according to copies of the documents reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.

The subpoenas were served last week, according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security for the first time has used one of its recently acquired planes to send deportees to Mexico, potentially ending months of uncertainty about jets bought under former Secretary Kristi Noem.

A DHS-owned 737-700 plane made by Boeing Co. made two trips from Texas to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Forecasters warn of coastal flooding and high tides in Southern California, but officials at Southern California Edison say dozens of stored canisters containing nuclear waste at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station pose no public safety threats — even if rainfall in the coming months is heavier than expected. ...Read more

Public health officials have confirmed 80 cases of measles in Minnesota so far this year — the highest total in 36 years for the highly infectious but vaccine-preventable disease.

The surge is largely because of an outbreak in Todd County in central Minnesota, which so far has reported 57 cases. The county accounted for all 37 of the measles ...Read more

Minnesota voters on Tuesday will decide whether to give Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison a third term or elect private attorney Ron Schutz as the first Republican to hold the office in more than 50 years.

What’s at stake? The attorney general is responsible for representing the state of Minnesota in legal matters like disputes with ...Read more

Within a few short hours, a helpful postpartum visit from her California bestie took a tragic turn: The Pittsburgh mom's new twin boys were both hospitalized — one would not survive — and her friend was the main suspect in the abuse.

That friend, Nicole Virzi, of San Diego, pleaded guilty this week in the 2024 death of 6-week-old Leon Katz ...Read more

NEW YORK — Six people were injured, including three children, when a driver jumped a curb and slammed into a parked ambulance at an NYPD Halloween trick or treat event in Brooklyn Thursday, cops and police sources said.

Driving a black sedan, the out-of-control motorist, 56, careened onto the sidewalk on Bleecker St. near Knickerbocker Avenue...Read more

A week after launching an unprecedented deployment of military prowess onto Haitian soil, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is asking the Haitian people to trust him, telling them Thursday that he’s not invading their Caribbean nation and all he wants is his men back — and to teach Haiti’s gangs a lesson.

Four aviation technicians ...Read more

On Thursday morning, a former taco truck cruised into the parking lot of a Tampa Heights shuffleboard bar. One side read “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile,” alongside a red-lettered call to “Release all the files.”

The other side of the truck featured a timeline of an alleged relationship between the president...Read more

BOSTON — A group seeking to overturn a recent Massachusetts abortion law expanding physicians’ ability to perform abortions after 24 weeks reported that they have gathered nearly 100,000 signatures.

That tally is overshooting the bar to put a ballot initiative before voters in 2028 and potentially suspend the law in the interim.

“The ...Read more