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Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico, with its sights set on Texas next
MPR News· 8 hours agoHurricane Beryl is now turning its wrath on Mexico and headed for the Gulf of Mexico, weakened but still dangerous after tearing through a series of Caribbean islands in recent ...
ConocoPhillips Sues Over Biden Arctic Plan That Thwarts Drilling
Financial Post· 8 hours agoThe lawsuit filed Friday takes aim at an Interior Department rule that explicitly bars oil leasing...
Justice Department opens a criminal probe of the Chinese Olympic doping scandal
MPR News· 10 hours agoThe U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into a sports doping scandal involving nearly two dozen elite Chinese swimmers. The Justice Department, which rarely comments on ongoing ...
Biden is still weighing whether to stay in the race, Hawaii governor says
MPR News· 15 hours ago"If the president doesn't think he can beat Donald Trump, he will hand it off to Kamala [Harris]," Green said during an interview on Saturday with NPR. Jill Biden is a superstar ...
Britain swings to the center-left in historic U.K. election landslide
MPR News· 16 hours agoIncoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed his win as historic, saying early Friday: “Change begins now.” For the Conservatives — the party of Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson ...
Meet the Democrats seen as up-and-comers for 2028 — or maybe sooner
MPR News· 17 hours agoLloyd Doggett, D-Texas, was the first congressional Democrat to publicly call on Biden to step aside. Other leaders in the party have said Biden is best placed to take on former President Donald ...
Exit poll shows landslide win for Britain's Labour Party amid frustration with Conservatives
MPR News· 1 day agoBritain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions ...
Luxury department store Saks buys Neiman Marcus, and Amazon gets a stake
MPR News· 1 day agoA luxury retailer is making its own high-end purchase: Saks Fifth Avenue's parent company is buying Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, in a merger that would create a dominant upscale department ...
After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn
MPR News· 1 day agoThe groups say they are now considering other avenues for challenging a redistricting plan for Arkansas’ state legislature that they argue takes away meaningful opportunities ...
Who is Keir Starmer? A look at the man likely to become the next U.K. prime minister
MPR News· 1 day agoThe candidate likely to become Britain’s next prime minister is a human rights lawyer who once called for the British monarchy to be abolished, but years later knelt before Charles, then prince ...