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Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown.
2024-09-1

Florida reports their first case of the Brazil variant of SARS-CoV-2, making it the fourth state to do so after Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Maryland.
2021-02-19

Rioting and looting take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, following the death of African-American man George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis Police Department officers. Several buildings are looted and burned down, and riot police have been deployed.
2020-05-27

Prosecutors in Minnesota say nobody will be charged over the death of Prince, who accidentally overdosed on counterfeit fentanyl pills.
2018-04-19

Michael Dourson, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine professor, withdraws his nomination for an assistant administrator position with the Environmental Protection Agency.
2017-12-14

U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz proposes a bill to eliminate the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
2017-02-6

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency orders Volkswagen to fix nearly 500,000 VW and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 that include software that circumvents EPA emissions standards. The company's illegal use of so-called "defeat devices" threaten public health, in some cases releasing 40 times the pollution standard of nitrogen oxide emissions. The company faces possible U.S. fines of up to $37,500 per vehicle for the violations which could total more than $18 billion.
2015-09-18

The U.S. states of Minnesota and Rhode Island begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
2013-08-1

A Somali man Omer Abdi Mohamed pleads guilty in the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to helping recruit people to travel to Somalia to assist the terror group al-Shabab.
2011-07-18

A heavy blizzard in the midwestern US states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan dropping about three feet of snow results in two deaths, road closures, flight cancellations and the inflatable roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsing.
2010-12-12