The Society of Professional Journalists announced Tuesday that the Minnesota Daily had won its Mark of Excellence Award as the best daily student newspaper among the nation's four-year schools. This is...

From the White House: THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,...

As you’ve heard by now, there is a small pack of activists holed up in the Social Sciences Building on the West Bank protesting … something. Their list of demands lacks focus and the whole event reeks...

On Thursday morning police discovered the body of a missing University of Minnesota student in a rail car just off campus. Minnesota Daily reporters and photographers went to the scene, located less than...

Twin Cities media critic David Brauer may have said it best when he dubbed the comments section of news websites a âÄúcesspool.âÄù For many news organizations, anonymous handles and the...

Via The UpTake, here is Tom Emmer's concession speech:  

Update: 4:40pm: "If everybody who fought for change in 2008 votes in 2010, Mark will win this election," President Barack Obama said. "In 2008, you said, 'Yes we can.' In 2010, you have to say, 'Yes we...

In 1903, Teddy Roosevelt  applauded the Gophers football team. Eight years later, William Howard Taft  called the University of Minnesota âÄúperhaps the greatest university in the United...

For those who couldn't attend, here is a replay of Friday's gubernatorial debate, which was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Daily. theuptake on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

The three candidates for Minnesota governor met in a debate at Hamline University on Saturday night. It was a feisty affair, with the candidates taking aim at each otherâÄôs budget plans, leadership...

Tarryl Clark, Rep. Michele Bachmann's Democratic-endorsed opponent in the 6th Congressional District, announced Wednesday that her campaign had raised more than $2 million in its bid to unseat the controversial...

Update - 5:00: The Republican Party has endorsed Tom Emmer for governor. Emmer told the convention delegates they will be a part of a line of conservative victories this November. "Republicans will win...

Tom Rukavina, sporting a Kelliher campaign button, drops out of the Minnesota gubernatorial race at the DFL convention in Duluth on Saturday night. (Matt Mead, Daily) Final Ballot - 11:15: It's Kelliher. R.T....

Two Minnesota news organizations are upset over The UpTake renting space alongside them in the basement of the Capitol. Politics in Minnesota reports that an editor from the Rochester Post-Bulletin sent...

Minnesota Republicans Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann told an anti-abortion group Wednesday night that the pro-life movement is in its most pressing period of history since Roe v. Wade. Bachmann also...

Rep. Tim Walz, the two-term Democrat from southern Minnesota who voted for the health care reform bill Sunday, will be getting a little support from the Democratic National Committee following his vote.  Rep....

Sen. Al Franken will be the latest in a line of politicians to be featured in a biographic comic book from Bluewater Productions. The comic, called "Political Power: Al Franken," will profile...

The Legislature passed a bonding bill Thursday containing $1 billion in public works and construction projects, including $100 million in funds for the University of Minnesota. The passage came after Gov....

Batman, a dog whose brain cancer was successfully treated at the University of Minnesota in 2008, has died. Batman with owner Ann Brailovsky and her son, August 2008. (Daily file photo) Minnesota Public...

The Minnesota Gophers baseball team will play the first ever game at Target Field on March 27, the Minnesota Twins announced today. The Gophers will host the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs at 1 p.m. that day....

Republican David Hann, a state senator from Eden Prairie, has dropped out of the Minnesota governor's race, he announced today. Sen. David Hann Hann acknowledged that he struggled to get both popular...

Carly Fiorina is a Republican running for U.S. Senate in California. She is not pleased with a fellow Republican candidate's fiscal policies. So, her campaign launched a Web advertisement against Tom Campbell,...

The "supermarket tabloid" National Enquirer says it deserves a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of John Edwards' affair during the 2008 election. Seriously. The paper's editor Barry Levine...

Minnesota Senator Al Franken took the rare move of ending a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday. While presiding over the chamber, Franken, a Democrat, cut off Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman when Lieberman...

A glance at Ward 9 City Council candidate Dave Bicking's Web site tells you that he is "principled. Practical. Passionate." But take a second to listen to his campaign song and you'll find out...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is pulling limited support in any perspective presidential run in 2012, but Minnesota's other highest-profile Republican, U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann, has told an Iowa reporter that she...

With Minnesota's Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty looking to go national and a deep field of DFL candidates lining up for a shot at his job, The Washington Post's The Fix political blog as named Minnesota...

A woman was injured after her bicycle collided with a University of Minnesota van on the corner of Washington Avenue and Harvard Street just after 6 p.m. on Thursday. The driver of the van was traveling...

Three days after Wednesday nightâÄôs key health care address to Congress, President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday. Obama will discuss health insurance...

Citing an "informed source," Minnpost.com columnist David Brauer says President Barack Obama will be in town on Saturday to give a speech on health care. The speech, according to Bauer, is set...

Pollsters from the Minnesota House of Representatives were at the Great Minnesota Get Together over the past 12 days, polling Minnesotans on everything from spending cuts during recessions to fishing with...

Lou Holtz, the  Hall of Fame college football coach who lead the Golden Gophers for two seasons in the 1980's, could be making a run for Congress in Florida. The Orlando Sentinel reported on Monday...

As you probably heard from pretty much everybody, Norm Coleman conceded the U.S. Senate race yesterday after the Minnesota Supreme Court shot down his appeal of the recount results. Early in the afternoon...

President Obama alluded to Rep. Keith Ellison in his much-discussed speech at Cairo University in Egypt today. Ellison, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, is a Democrat who represents Minnesota's...

We're only a day removed from Gov. Tim Pawlenty's announcement that he is not running for a third term in 2010. While the news means the Presidential "will he, won't he?" begins in full force,...

A DFL representative has been reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for disparaging remarks he made about colleagues on Twitter during a floor session in early May. Paul Gardner, DFL-Shoreview, tweeted...

The Legislative session ended Monday night without a budget agreement between the DFL-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, paving the way for the governor to make good on his threat...

Senators in the higher education conference committee offered the first major proposals for a compromise on the higher education funding bill on Thursday. The conference committee is made up of senators...

The coach of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's football team had threatened to ban the school's student newspaper from covering the team after an opinion piece criticizing athletes ran in the paper. The...

Speaking on MPR today, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was asked about his thoughts on funding for a new Bell Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus. Tim Pawlenty While Pawlenty...

It's Monday, April 6, and it's the final Twins opener at the Metrodome. You won't find me there tonight, but perhaps tomorrow... I'm plotting out my championship-parade-watching spot on Nicollet Ave. as...

The Senate passed a bonding bill yesterday with $24 million in funding for a new Bell Museum of Natural History and $35 million in funding for facility upgrades and repairs for University buildings (HEAPR...

The unemployment level is the highest its been since the early 1980's but...CNN's SciTechBlog reports that it appears the economy of Second Life is actually pretty stable. Second Life users can use real...

CNN.com has a quite interesting story about members of Congress "twittering" during President Obama's address Tuesday night. Partisans from both sides used the social networking service to share...

Interesting news from Washington: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back on the Supreme Court bench today in her first public appearance since undergoing pancreatic cancer surgery earlier this month. Ruth...

With the stroke of a pen on Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed into law a $787 billion economic stimulus package meant to help pull the country out of a deepening recession. A combination of increased...

Alan Greenspan, Henry Paulson, Bernie Madoff and, yes, George W. Bush all make TIME magazine's list of 25 people to blame for the economic mess. In the magazine's Feb. 23 issue, a group of experts lay...

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU) and more than 3,000 faculty members at the system's seven universities have reached a tentative agreement calling for no across-the-board salary...

MnDOT is closing portions of I-35W this weekend, so if you live in the south metro and you're taking your dirty laundry home to your mother tonight, plan accordingly. All lanes, north and south, of I-35W...

Minnesota might end up with a bona fide comedian in the U.S. Senate... but it sounds like we might have one there already. Sen. Amy Klobuchar was a speaker, and resident comedian, at the Washington Press...

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, the DFLer who represents the University's district, has introduced legislation that would seat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate now, pending the end of the recount trial. If passed, the...

Monday is "National Buy a Newspaper Day!" Almost 20,000 people have joined the Facebook event encouraging its participants to purchase a good old-fashioned newspaper on Monday. Its creator, Chris...

Higher education wasn't the centerpiece, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty touched on issues pertaining to the 'U' and the MnSCU system in his State of the State address at the Capitol on Thursday. Calling for a cap...

It might sound a bit boring, but redrawing Congressional and legislative districts is a vital task for state legislatures every 10 years. Maybe you've thought that you want to give it a shot? Well, here's...

Having a little bit of election fatigue? Need some fun to lighten up the mood in the current U.S. Senate Recount? Well, MPR has just the remedy. Play the "You be the judge"...

If Sen. Norm Coleman holds on against Al Franken, Minnesota Republicans will break even in Congressional representation, as Rep. Michele Bachmann has been reelected and Erik Paulsen has won the seat of...

Last week, when I saw the Al Franken bus outside Coffman, I didn't quite know whether Franken himself was on campus. But when I saw it this morning, I knew. Franken was joined by Mayors Chris Coleman of...

Al Franken made an impromptu trip to Coffman Union today, where he greeted students for about half an hour, and talked to me. "I think students are really motivated in this election," Franken said as we...

It's Sarah Palin! The GOP vice presidential nominee was on Saturday Night Live last night. Palin appeared in the show's opening, alongside SNL producer Lorne Michaels, actor Alec Baldwin, and of course...

Todd Palin, husand of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, was in Minnnesota on Thursday. "First Dude" Palin spent time in the Iron Range, stumping for Norm Coleman at an event in which Coleman...

Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District race is one of the most interesting and contested races in the country. Today, DFL candidate Ashwin Madia will be on campus, kicking off a series of forums at the...

John McCain and Barack Obama meet in Nashville tonight in the second presidential debate. Tom Brokaw will moderate, and questions will come from the audience. Tonight's debate may take on extra importance,...

The name Adeona once belonged only to the Roman goddess of safe returns. on the web To learn more and download the new program, go to http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/. Today, a new laptop recovery program...

In a vote Friday morning, the Minneapolis City Council granted a rezoning permit to Doran Development , opening the door for the company to pursue renovations of the Dinkydome and to build a housing development...

In a blog post Tuesday, former presidential candidate Ron Paul said he plans on being in the Target Center , not Williams Arena as originally planned, to introduce his Campaign for Liberty" in September. "After...

The Crown Hydro project, a proposed hydropower turbine located at St. Anthony Falls in the Mississippi River, has been stalling for nearly a decade, and a 5-4 vote against the project last December by...

Tuesday marked the opening of the University's Medical Devices Center , a research facility meant for designing and testing new medical devices. Director Art Erdman said the center is a part of the Institute...

The University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview, has been placed in the top 20 in two categories of national children's hospital rankings conducted by U.S. News and World Report. According to...

A group of protesting scientists hope to break into the global warming debate with a petition against the theory of human-driven global warming. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, a small independent...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain released details about his health care plan Tuesday, and he received a little help from a University professor along the way. Finance professor Steve...

One could set a clock by it - each new semester, students line up in Coffman Union, or on Oak Street or in Dinkytown to buy new textbooks. Despite the best deals students claim to find, the groans, sighs...

The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to give $4.9 million to the University to study a rare but deadly form of cancer, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty has already threatened a veto. The...

This week marks the sixth annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Health Awareness Week, hosted by the Rainbow Health Initiative, an organization seeking to improve the health of the GLBT community...

In its 80-plus years, Williams Arena is no stranger to competition. But this weekend, it played host to a different type of sport, and the arena's lights didn't reflect off the athletes' sweat, but instead...

Minnesota Student Association President Emma Olson said it wasn't the most exciting MSA forum of the year Tuesday, but it was one of the most important. MSA members tackled issues including the group's...

In the early 2000s, students were dropping out of school early to enter jobs in the technology field. Just a few years later, the Computing Research Association has found that the number of students declaring...

University Computer Services has entered a restructuring phase that looks to outsource services to non-University vendors. Renee Rivers, who works in the Office of Information Technology, said the University's...

By nature, best friends have many things in common - favorite movies, similar hobbies and common interests. But University researchers have recently found man's best friend may have something more substantial...

Male contraceptives could someday leave the condom aisle and enter the pharmacy. The University Pro-Choice Coalition held a forum Wednesday night discussing the future of male birth control pills. Caitlin...

For the second straight year, the University was named in a national report looking at incidents of digital information loss. The Feb. 11 report, called "Educational Security Incidents (ESI) Year in Review...

University researchers have a beef with some American diets. A study released Jan. 22 found certain diets can lead to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome, its author, Ph.D. student Pam Lutsey, said. "Metabolic...

While University students spent winter break catching up on sleep and social lives, some University professors and researchers were busy changing the face of the scientific world. Of the study results...

The Gophers football team didn't make it to a Bowl showdown this year - but Goldy Gopher did. The University's mascot has reached the finals in the Capital One Bowl National Mascot of the Year contest,...

As the snow fell Saturday morning, 22-month-old Krystie Karl-Steiger lay on an examination table at the Phillips-Wagensteen building where, unannounced to her, her parents were anxiously awaiting the results...

Condoms might be free through the University, but the cost of some other contraceptives it offers is increasing. Because of a federal law enacted in January, drug companies won't be able to sell prescription...

Nurses typically focus on their patients' health, but during the next legislative session they'll focus, in part, on their own. The Minnesota Nurses Association announced Nov. 14 plans to lobby the Legislature...

The University's new TXT-U service is only five days old, but has already joined the ranks of a growing number of text messaging uses. Besides sending normal text messages, new uses for cell phone texting...

Numbers from the Digital Media Center show WebVista, an online course management system, has an increasing number of users at the University. The nine-year-old system has 2,379 course pages and about 50,000...

While some people on campus use the night hours for homework, partying or - rarely - sleep, a few teams of University insomniacs recently used that time for filmmaking. On Oct. 13, these students found...

While the more than 130,000 people in the Facebook group "If Wikipedia Says It, It Must Be True" praise the online encyclopedia, University researchers have been trying to evaluate who might be behind...

When psychology senior Jane Berezovsky traveled to Kenya in July, it was obvious to her that malaria is a major problem in African countries. "I lived in a rural area there and they had a lot of issues...

It's that time of year - winds change, geese make their trips south and flu shot clinics begin shooting up in malls, grocery stores and on college campuses. Boynton Health Service is offering free, walk-in...

Students shivering in Saturday morning's mid-30-degree temperatures needed only to look up for something destined for even colder temperatures. University students participating in the Minnesota Space...

Professor Jim Luby's rap sheet of U.S. plant patents is a fruit cocktail of numbers and letters. The patent for his Honeycrisp apple lies among his three strawberry breed patents - MNUS 248, MNUS 210 and...

Computer manufacturing giant Apple Inc. released Leopard, the newest update of its popular operating system, Friday, reviving the debate between Microsoft and Apple users worldwide. Leopard, which follows...