- The Washington Post has the story of a near-miss and aborted landing for First Lady Michelle Obama at Andrews Air Force Base. Apparently a 200-ton cargo jet was coming in just in front of Obama's plane,...
-Oh, dear. The New York Times Magazine's next feature, "Is Sugar Toxic?" tells the story of pediatrician Robert Lustig's war on our sweet, sweet sucrose. Lustig's argument is that sugar is not only a main...
- For those of you who were planning to stage a coup, or fake an election, and start an autocratic terror-state... maybe just hold off until things cool down a bit. This is officially the worst time,...
-This morning's Washington Post has a frightening read on aborted landings at Reagan National Airport in D.C. Apparently, between 10 and 20 times a month, a plane approaches the runway, drops its landing...
- The iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor has died. Described in the New York Times obituary as "a constant star," Taylor got famous young, and stayed famous, even as her work rate dropped off. ( According...
- The normally dull world of NPR executives has received a serious shake-up with the resignation of CEO Vivian Schiller. Schiller's ouster comes a day after investigative cheese-and-nut roll James O'Keefe...
- We begin in Libya, where Mo Qaddafi seems ready to kill as many of his people (people who love him, he swears!) as it takes to hold on to power. The Washington Post reports on 14 deaths in Ajdabiya,...
- The protest momentum rolls along in Libya, where Muammar Qaddafi is clinging to power with slightly less integrity than that awful mustache clings to his upper lip. Qaddafi -- who, with the ouster of...
- Cairo's unrest is still simmering, and we should all keep a watchful, hopeful eye on the day-to-day goings-on. But today's Washington Post has a great, so-far overlooked story, on the death of a single...
Today's Daily Digest, from editor Mike Mullen.
- In Egypt, embattled President Hosni Mubarak’s compromise to not seek another term of office has done little to quell ongoing protests. The addition to...
- Last night President Obama gave the State of the Union to a sold-out crowd at the U.S. Capitol. The phrase that seems to be capturing everyone's attention, and might stick around a while, is Obama's...
- Today, President Obama - the most well-known world leader - welcomed China's Hu Jianto, the least well-known, in a White House ceremony that conjured up all the conflict and cooperation between the...
Welcome back.
- Don't blink. Tunisia's had some sort of democratic -- or at least anti-dictatorial -- revolution, but the outcome seems to be changing by the hour. Earlier today, according to the New York...
-- We begin in China, where Liu Xiabao, Friday’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will sit in prison during the ceremony in Norway, becoming the first peace winner to miss his award ceremony since Germany’s...
-- Whoa! A new study in the journal Nature, published by researchers from Harvard and Yale (my safety schools) suggests that there could be three times as many stars in the universe as previously thought....
St. Paul native Micheal Larsen was a critically acclaimed hip-hop and rock artist, and a prolific poet. Larsen died Oct. 16, but left volumes of unpublished poetry and dozens of unreleased songs.
-- In a great piece by an often-great SCOTUS correspondent, Adam Liptak of the New York Times writes about how the Supreme Court's getting a little long in the pen. A couple of recent studies have found...
-- In America, when we’re told of a tuition hike, we students grumble a bit and, at most, reach for a fifth or sixth beer. In England yesterday, they went nuts. Some 52,000 people gathered in London...
-- First, in statehouse news, the number of rejected absentee ballots in the governor’s race is only about 3,000, the AP is reporting today. At the moment, Mark Dayton leads Tom Emmer by about 9,000,...
A daily rundown of news from Projects Editor Mike Mullen.
--Rick Rypien, Vancouver Canucks center/punk, has been suspended indefinitely for shoving a Minnesota Wild fan during a game in St. Paul on Friday...
Some public universities have received tens of millions of dollars in federal earmarks. With rare exceptions, the University of Minnesota hasn't sought earmarks.
A digest of today's news by Projects Editor Mike Mullen.
Hello. Happy Thursday.
-- Michele Bachmann is officially the best-funded U.S. House candidate in history, the Star Tribune reports. Bachmann has...
In a conversation during the 2008 presidential campaign, one of Brian WeeksâÄô friends said that President Barack Obama was a Muslim. WeeksâÄô friend said that heâÄôd learned about...
By the end of June, 31 tons of contaminated soil will have been removed from the Como Student Community Cooperative. The story of the contamination traces back to an era when the link between environment and health was unknown.
The University of Minnesota has given more than $26 million to its athletics department in the past five years. The department needed this and other outside funds to balance its budget and attempt to keep pace with the rest of the Big Ten.
Eric Swenson re-enlisted in the military knowing that it meant he would see combat. Soon, the University of Minnesota student will join tens of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan.
Editor’s note: “Reporter’s Notebook” is an occasional blog that will feature worthwhile content left out of a news story. It will also give reporters an opportunity to talk...
One morning in October 1990, Ahmed Sirleaf woke up early and prepared to leave. Charles TaylorâÄôs rebels had come, again and again, and the village was not safe. Sirleaf needed to leave Makpouma...
Editor’s Note: This in the first in a two-part series looking at the overlapping University and Prospect Park communities. Wednesday’s story will examine the changing culture of the Prospect Park neighborhood.
Some doctors say sickle cell trait, may be responsible for the sudden deaths of athletes. While findings have been inconclusive, 11 young men have died suddenly and inexplicably during football practice in the last decade with the only unifying factor be
Head basketball coach Tubby Smith appeared at a Washington, D.C. rally with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Sen. Al Franken and Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Tuesday to promote the final push for health care...
The NCAA's new rule which allows for reviewing illegal or dangerous hits and punishing players even when no flag was thrown during the game has already been used once in a game involving a Big Ten team,...
NCAA President Myles Brand died on Wednesday, less than ten months after he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. Brand, who was 67, will be remembered as the Indiana University president who...
Two University of Wisconsin basketball players were arrested for burglary and drinking underage last weekend, and have been suspended from the team. Diamond Taylor and Jeremy Glover are both 18, both freshmen,...
Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount brought his own career to an inglorious end with a sucker punch to Boise State's Byron Hout after Thursday night's college football season opener. Accoding to the...
Before the college hockey season began, six conference commissioners and the NCAA wrote an open memo to the hockey community.
Referees were instructed to enforce a stricter brand of holding and interference...
Go ahead. Forget about Kris Chucko.
Chucko, a highly touted freshman wing on Minnesota's men's hockey team, has done more blending in than standing out in his first three games with the Gophers, tallying...
Minnesota's men's hockey team took a long flight to get to Anchorage, Alaska, for the Frontier Classic, but raining fish and a first-time goaltender ruined the trip.
The Gophers beat Massachusetts 1-0...
After an hour delay at the airport, Minnesota men's hockey team left for a six-hour flight to Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, flying west over three time zones.
One would think this might leave the team...
Next week, Minnesota's men's hockey team will name its team captain for the season. And that player will have a tough act to follow.
Last year, senior Grant Potulny served his second year as the team's...
Everywhere there were seams that pulled apart and gaps that widened.
It seemed that whenever Minnesota needed to create space in Saturday's game against Denver, the Gophers found open ice and Zamboni-sized...
When Calgary's Bracken Kearns scored on a breakaway 12:25 into the second period of Thursday night's exhibition game against Minnesota to tie the score 2-2, a dull murmur fell over the crowd at Mariucci...
There is no star on this year's Minnesota men's hockey team.
Not yet.
"It's different," coach Don Lucia said of starting a season without a clear leader. "But I think, like any team, guys are going to...
Nick Edlefsen had his chance.
In the second round of pre-qualifying at the ITA All-American Championships on Saturday, Edlefsen faced Oklahoma's Marek Velicka. With the game score knotted at 5-5 in the...
When Avery Ticer was a sophomore on Minnesota's tennis team, the team voted for senior Thomas Haug to be its captain.
But Haug said he wasn't comfortable with the extra responsibility, and instead deferred...
Minnesota's women's tennis team does not start its season this weekend with the Gophers Invitational Tournament. Not if you listen to coach Tyler Thomson.
"I think starting anew is more of a practice thing,"...
Right in the middle of women's tennis coach Tyler Thomson's CD-ROM collection is a rather plain looking gray disc with no introduction or sound. On it lies a video of a recruit - a risk that Thomson took...
Sam Wangsgard is a one-woman recruiting class.
Now a senior, Wangsgard was the lone recruit for the rowing team in 2000, joining a Minnesota squad in only its second year of existence.
"I think that's...
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