1+ hour, 49+ min ago (1415+ words) Imagine, for a moment, that you're an American pilot flying an F-16 over Iraq. The troops on the ground have been pursuing a small group of Iraqi insurgents. They report that they've cornered the insurgents in a small farmhouse. Rather than take the risk of assaulting the house on the ground, the commander has called you in to make a precision strike from the air " to blow up the entire building. But you have concerns. You've been briefed over and over again about the law of war, and you're worried that there might be civilians in the house. You can't see any, but you don't know for sure. A legal principle called "distinction" requires you to discriminate between military and civilian targets, and you're worried about who might be behind those walls. In fact, since you were called in after the…...

4+ hour, 52+ min ago (734+ words) Well, it's Groundhog's Day " Again. After the Wolves squandered an eight-point lead in the final minute in Friday's loss in Phoenix, Minnesota held a 10-point advantage over the Kings in Sacramento on Monday after Anthony Edwards tallied an and-1 with three minutes to play. Surely that would be good enough to seal the deal this time around. Yes, it happened again. Sacramento went on a 10-0 run over an 81-second span to knot the game and force overtime, where the Kings beat Minnesota, 117-112. The Wolves committed four turnovers in the extra session to offset the easy offense Edwards generated with the ball in his hands " offense Minnesota could've used at the end of regulation. The Timberwolves led by 12 with nearly 10 minutes to play in the fourth frame after Mike Conley drilled a triple. From that point forward, Minnesota went 2 for 19 from…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago (474+ words) Minnesota United's defensive-first game plan was panning out almost to perfection through 70 minutes of a Western Conference semifinal in San Diego. The Loons were conceding a ton possession but few scoring chances and providing some threats on their own counter attacks. Then San Diego's do-everything attacker Anders Dreyer got space and ripped a powerful shot into the upper corner of the net in the 72 minute for a 1-o win at Snapdragon Stadium. The top-seeded San Diego end the fourth-seeded Loons' season and will host second-seeded Vancouver in the West final at 4 p.m. Saturday. The Loons season ends in the Western Conference semifinal for a second straight year. Dreyer headlined the Loons' scoring report. The Dane won MLS newcomer of the year with 36 combined goals and primary assists " second to only Lionel Messi (45) this season. After a scoreless opening 45 minutes, the second…...

8+ hour, 42+ min ago (238+ words) The latest version of "80s rock band Guns N" Roses will play the new Mystic Lake Amphitheater in Shakopee on Aug. 8. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 through Ticketmaster. Fans who register at signup.ticketmaster.com/gunsnroses by the end of the day Monday have access to a presale that runs on Dec. 3. Guns N" Roses formed in 1985 from the ashes of several other Los Angeles rock bands. After turning heads on the Hollywood club scene, GNR signed a deal with Geffen Records the following year and released their debut "Appetite for Destruction" in the summer of 1987. It spawned five hit singles, including the ballad "Sweet Child o" Mine," and went on to top 18 million in sales. For the next two decades, about a dozen people cycled in and out of GNR, with Minneapolis" own Tommy Stinson playing bass in the…...

10+ hour, 7+ min ago (328+ words) Frankie Capan III finished 127th on the PGA Tour's season-long points list, two spots away from achieving conditional status for the 2026 campaign, and 27 spots below the cutoff to maintain full status. Capan entered the final tournament in 124th position, but he missed the cut over the weekend at the fall finale " the RSM Classic, which allowed three players to jump him in the standings. After placing in a tie for 12th at the American Express Championship in mid-January, Capan went 20 straight individual events without a top-40 finish. It was a strong fall for the recently-turned 26-year-old, who logged a pair of top-six finishes over his last five starts. Capan climbed 27 spots in the season-long standings over the last two months of play. But his struggles from February through September dug Capan too deep of a hole from which to climb out. For the…...

10+ hour, 8+ min ago (941+ words) Minnesota's Republican Congressional delegation and state lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Attorney's office to investigate whether fraud schemes helped fund terrorism after President Donald Trump pledged that he would end temporary legal protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota. Trump's move and GOP calls for an investigation come on the heels of a report from a conservative think tank alleging that some of the millions of dollars stolen from the state through fraud ended up in the hands of the Somalia-based Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab. It's not the first time there have been allegations of a link between fraud in Minnesota and terrorism. The same premise was at the center of a similar 2018 local news story that spurred action at the state Capitol and a nonpartisan state investigation that found no definitive connection between fraud and terrorism. Citing unnamed sources and…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago (699+ words) Her grandson Ike Howard said Monday that she died surrounded by family at a Tulsa hospital. Sustained by a strong faith, she raised three children, worked as a welder in a shipyard during World War II and spent decades caring for families as a housekeeper. "I could never forget the charred remains of our once-thriving community, the smoke billowing in the air, and the terror-stricken faces of my neighbors," she wrote in her 2023 memoir, "Don't Let Them Bury My Story." As her family left in a horse-drawn buggy, her eyes burned from the smoke and ash, she wrote. She described seeing piles of bodies in the streets and watching as a white man shot a Black man in the head, then fired toward her family. "We don't want history to repeat itself so we do need to educate people about…...

11+ hour, 58+ min ago (667+ words) WILLMAR " Approximately 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Law Enforcement Center last week in Willmar as a show of support for immigrants caught in the dragnet of immigration enforcement done by federal authorities. They also shared stories of other immigrants they know and how they've helped grow and be a positive asset for the communities they live in. The jail facility in Kandiyohi County is one of three detention facilities in Minnesota that hold individuals for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Community members of Willmar, Alexandria and some from Northfield had come as a show of solidarity and support for immigrants in their communities who feel threatened by current federal policies. Toward the end of the vigil, demonstrators shouted toward the jail facility, "We are here!" in both English and Spanish. Visitation Pastor Andres Albertsen, of Vinje Lutheran Church in Willmar, led prayer…...

12+ hour, 7+ min ago (812+ words) Closing a single slaughterhouse might not seem significant, but the Lexington plant employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000 and has the capacity to slaughter some 5,000 head of cattle a day. Tyson also plans to cut one of the two shifts at a plant in Amarillo, Texas, and eliminate 1,700 jobs there. Together those two moves will reduce beef processing capacity nationwide by 7-9%. An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices. Here's what we know about the impact of the plant closure and the changing tariffs: Clay Patton, vice president of the Lexington-area Chamber of Commerce said Monday that Tyson's announcement Friday felt like a "gut punch" to the community in the…...

12+ hour, 12+ min ago (1070+ words) Since late September, hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel tied to the Memphis Safe Task Force have made traffic stops, served warrants and searched for fugitives in the city of about 610,000 people. More than 2,800 people have been arrested and more than 28,000 traffic citations have been issued, data provided by the task force and Memphis police shows. The task force, which includes National Guard troops, is supported by Republican Gov. Bill Lee and others who hope the surge reduces crime in a city that has grappled with violent crime, including nearly 300 homicides last year and nearly 400 in 2023. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to Memphis to meet with officers and tout the task force's success in taking suspects and illegal guns off the street. Bondi and other law enforcement leaders later served food to officers to thank…...