Minnesota

A Turkish neurology professor studying in the United States has received a $41 million government grant for her groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's disease and how it affects people of different ethnic groups.

1.5 million liters of radioactive water leaked from a nuclear power plant in the state of Minnesota, USA. Officials are monitoring the cleanup and assure there is no immediate risk to public health, writes the BBC.

BELGRADE - Serbia will fight for Belgrade to be named the host of Expo 2027, which would mean a tourism boom for the country, President Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the 44th International Tourism Fair on Wednesday evening.

Helium balloons are part of nearly every American celebration, but a global shortage of the lighter-than-air gas has disrupted many traditions.

One college football team has suspended its traditional release of red balloons, and party planners will have to make do with less, if they get any.

A CBS affiliate in Minnesota has unearthed video footage of late music legend Prince commenting on a teachers' strike when he was just 11 years old, a child instantly recognizable to the journalist who found it purely by chance.

Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd's civil rights, as a federal jury rejected their arguments that inexperience, improper training or the distraction of shouting bystanders excused them from failing to prevent Floyd's killing.

According to the police, he fired from a semi-automatic pistol.

With oppressively hot, dry weather looming over much of the Western U.S. and Canada on July 18, the enormous Bootleg Fire in Oregon grew again and authorities ordered new evacuations.

Bootleg, the largest of 80 major fires now active in the U.S., spread overnight from 274,000 acres to 290,000 acres -- three times the size of the metropolis of Detroit, officials said.

Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on June 25 for the murder of African American George Floyd, the killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades.

Amy Klobuchar, US senator of Slovenian descent, shared an Easter Tweet of gifting her father with his favourite Slovenian dessert - a made-in-Minnesota potica.