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Tim Walz's proposed ban on Congress insider trading advancing quickly [VIDEO]

​Tim Walz's bill to ban federal lawmakers from using inside information when managing their own financial portfolios is getting fast-tracked through Congress.On Monday, by an overwhelming vote of 93-2, the Senate agreed to proceed with debate on the so-called STOCK act. The companion bill in the H ... More >>

Sparboe Farms faces false advertising complaint over treatment of chickens

The controversy over Sparboe Farms' treatment of animals continues as an animal rights group filed a false advertising claim against the egg company today. Sparboe was rocked by an undercover investigation and 60 Minutes report a couple weeks ago documenting abuse of chickens at some of its facilit ... More >>

Somali suicide bomber from Minneapolis: "Do Jihad in America"

Somali's civil war claims another Minnesotan.​A suicide bomber who blew himself up in Mogadishu yesterday in an attack that killed 10 had traveled to Somalia from Minneapolis in 2008.Abdisalan Ali had emigrated to Minnesota with his family when he was 2 years old, but was among 20 local youths who ... More >>

Osama bin Laden photos on the Internet wage jihad against your hard drive [UPDATE]

​Osama bin Laden is dead. His body was buried at sea. The White House and the Pentagon have photos of the U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan, but they haven't released the pictures to the public. There's obviously a huge demand to see a photo or video of bin Laden with a bullet through his sk ... More >>

Greg Mortenson in more trouble: Montana AG investigating

Mortenson's original best seller.​Greg Mortenson, the mountaineer turned best-selling author and "Three Cups of Tea" do-gooder in Afghanistan, is in more trouble this morning. Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock says he's looking into allegations that the Minnesota native may have illegal ... More >>

Greg Mortenson responds to "60 Minutes" with "I'm not a journalist"

Three Cups of Tea: A work of fiction?​If a story sounds too good to be true, beware. Which brings us to Minnesota native Greg Mortenson. His book, "Three Cups of Tea," about building schools for girls in Afghanistan, is still a New York Times bestseller in paperback. The uplifting tale of loc ... More >>

Jay Leno talks Howard Stern, Letterman, and retirement

Longtime comedian speaks to City Pages before his Mystic gig

Gastro Non Grata at First Avenue, 6/27/10

Photo by Nikki Miller​Gastro Non Grata June 27, 2010 First Avenue Last night in the First Avenue Mainroom, 7th Street Entry and Record Room, Gastro Non Grata pulled off a pretty freakin' incredible feat: assemble three rooms full of hungry music fans and present to them nine bands, three DJs, ... More >>

R.T. Rybak and Barack Obama discuss combating Somali radicals

Obama and Rybak discussed ways to combat radicalization of Somali youth​Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak joined Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Michael Coleman at a White House meeting on Tuesday to talk about coping with terrorist groups recruiting people on American soi ... More >>

60 Minutes probes Somali terror ties in Minnesota

​60 Minutes yesterday featured an extensive probe into Minnesota's "Little Mogadishu" as a recruiting ground for fighters in the Somali civil war.After leading with the recently bungled Times Square bombing by an American citizen of Pakistani descent, CBS segued into a hard look at the case of 20 ... More >>

Max Weinberg 'not gone yet,' Conan's reps say

​Our recent interview with Al Kooper created quite the stir in the entertainment world last week, as he divulged that Max Weinberg was not going to be hired to lead the backing band for Conan O'Brien's new TBS show. Conan's reps have issued a somewhat vague statement countering Kooper's claims, sa ... More >>

Iowa wine industry growing

Iowa's capitalizing on some of Minnesota's cold weather grapes to support its growing wine industry.

Phil Spector's latest mugshot revealed

We know it's already a perverted vaudeville, but Spector's most recent mugshot is his most harrowing work yet.

MPR's Broadcast Journalist Series: Lowell Bergman

We know it's already a perverted vaudeville, but Spector's most recent mugshot is his most harrowing work yet.

Obama the...food critic?

Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon explores Watergate's aftermath

Film depicts historic ego clash between president, interviewer

Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman gets down and dirty

The senate race between the Republican incumbent and the former SNL comedian is the most expensive in the country

Anderson Cooper

Newscasteri closetidmus

A hard-partying congressman helps rescue Afghans from the Ruskies in Mike Nichols's good-time Charlie Wilson's War

Newscasteri closetidmus

Dull Roar

There's an odd upside to Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Around the World in Eighty Days in Under Sixty Minutes

There's an odd upside to Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Bin Laden's Game

Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

Exile on Stalinallee

He started out as a Grade-B Ricky Nelson; He ended up as an American revolutionary

'Roid Rage: NFL division

He started out as a Grade-B Ricky Nelson; He ended up as an American revolutionary

Open-Source Me

Chuck Olsen takes the first-person doc into the blogosphere

An October Surprise for Bush and the FBI?

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds talks about her case --and hints at a forthcoming scandal

FBI Whistleblowers: A Short List

Five other agents and employees who spoke out

Karl Rove's Moment

How "Bush's Brain" hijacked Washington, D.C. and politics-as-usual

Magical Realism

Why Gabriel Garcia Marquez would never get a job with PBS--and other truths of nonfiction film

The Billionaire Next Door

Donald Watkins Is Made Of More Than Money

Purple Hazy

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

Maple Leaf Rag

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

Sound Check

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

Mann Inside

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

River Reverie

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

The Gazing Is Over

In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

Men Behaving Badly

Everything you always wanted to know about Woody but were afraid to ask?: Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn in Wild Man Blues

Distress Signals

KTCA tried to survive the public TV wars by being bigger and better. Too bad the grants dried up and the talent jumped ship.

Minnesota Bound--and Gagged

In public citizen Ron Schara, the great outdoors meets the almighty dollar. Guess which wins.

Clark Griffith and the Mandate of Heaven

Thirteen years after Calvin Griffith threw up his hands and sold the Twins to Carl Pohlad, his son Clark is back with a bid to buy the team and make sure it stays in Minnesota. Why? Because he figures that's the way it ought to be.

Friends of Webb

Thirteen years after Calvin Griffith threw up his hands and sold the Twins to Carl Pohlad, his son Clark is back with a bid to buy the team and make sure it stays in Minnesota. Why? Because he figures that's the way it ought to be.

Get Out of Jail Free

In drug- or gang-related cases, one of the favorite weapons of prosecutors is confidential informants like Johnny Edwards. Trouble is, a lot of them will say anything to get themselves out of the hot seat--and continue committing crimes while they're turn

IN THE SHADOW OF THE INFORMATION AGE

Days and nights at the most maligned workplace in the country--the U.S. Postal Service.

LABOR OF LOVE

One of the longest running picket lines in the history of the local labor movement

Seattle Supersonics

One of the longest running picket lines in the history of the local labor movement

The Ragpicker's Son

The life and times of blue-collar millionaire.

Vote For Me! I Can't Tell You Why!

The experience of Texas may hold a lesson for Minnesota when it comes to judicial elections.

Record Roundup

The experience of Texas may hold a lesson for Minnesota when it comes to judicial elections.

Having It All

Leaving behind beauty myths and backlashes, three new books about women and their accomplishments share a surprising optimism.