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  • Vikings see the light with design of new stadium

    Opening the roof over the new home of the Minnesota Vikings would have forced planners of the $975 million project to eliminate some of the fancy features.

  • Flip Saunders returning to Timberwolves

    Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor sat before a throng of media, swallowed hard and said what many in and around the organization had been thinking for about nine years.

  • The lawmaker who has sent out the most press releases thus far in 2013 is Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, who has issued 94. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway: Publicity prowess

    In the fine art of strategic prattle, House Democrats are "outhustling" Republicans, grinding out more press releases than their GOP rivals.

  • Carlos Maisonet, 73, receives a flu shot from Dr. Eva Berrios-Colon, a professor at Touro College of Pharmacy, during a visit to the faculty practice center at Brooklyn Hospital in New York on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

    Flu shot did poor job against worst bug in seniors

    For those 65 and older, this season's flu shot is only 9 percent effective against the most common and dangerous flu bug, according to a startling new government report.

  • Flu shot did poor job against worst bug in seniors

    This year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting senior citizens from the harshest strain this season, proving only 9 percent effective, the government said Thursday.

  • Vikings to play 2 cold seasons at TCF Bank Stadium

    Next season will be the Minnesota Vikings' last in the 31-year-old Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and fans of the purple and gold can look forward to blue lips and red cheeks as they shiver through two seasons of old-school, outdoor football.

  • Vikings to play 2 cold seasons in outdoor stadium

    Next season will be the Minnesota Vikings' last in the 31-year-old Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and fans of the purple and gold can look forward to blue lips and red cheeks as they shiver through two seasons of old-school outdoor football.

  • The National Chicken Council reveals that there are "no extreme left wings or extreme right wings" when it comes to chicken wings. (Image from the National Chicken Council)

    Inside the Beltway: Jindal emerges with messages to GOP

    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has secured his place in the Republican rush to redefine the party, pacify conservatives and scoop up Libertarians, Hispanics and disgruntled Democrats as 2016 glimmers in the distance.

  • Former Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, has found a comfortable post-Congress sinecure as a guest commentator on Fox News Channel. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway: Cunning Fox

    Fox News has signed former Ohio congressman Dennis J. Kucinich as a paid contributor on both the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.

  • EDITORIAL: A conspiracy culture

    For some, an unwillingness to accept the concept of individual responsibility can lead down a bizarre path. Rather than accept the possibility that a single, evil man could perform the unthinkably evil act of killing 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last month, some would place the blame on the tools he used to commit this crime.

  • Montgomery, Fairfax counties consider pushing back high school start times

    A pair of counties in the D.C. suburbs are considering pushing back high school start times, potentially joining a number of districts around the country that have switched to later school days to improve student achievement.

  • Official: Vikings have right for seat licenses

    A top state official overseeing the new Minnesota Vikings stadium said Friday she expects personal seat licenses to be priced in line with fees charged at the Twins' Target Field and the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium _ if the team pursues the fees to help pay its share of the $975 million construction cost.

  • U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, addresses supporters Tuesday night. With a Democratic governor and Democrats in control of the Legislature, Minnesota is heavily blue. (Associated Press)

    Minnesota GOP reassessing after slap-down at polls

    Two years after their party made historic inroads in a traditionally deep-blue state, Republicans in Minnesota find themselves again looking at a period of rebuilding.

  • The northern lights are aglow near Trondheim, Norway. Skygazers turn out in force, hoping to be awed by the spectacular show in the northern latitudes. "Awe is the most 'spiritual' of the positive emotions," writes a Harvard psychologist. (Associated Press)

    The experience of awe can slow down perceived time in people's lives

    As anyone trying to juggle a career, family and sleep will tell you: The one universal truth of modern life is that there are not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done. If only we could stop time in its tracks or, at least, slow it down — wouldn't that be nice?

  • Visitors to a Minnesota State Fair booth staffed by supporters of a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage chat with a volunteer in late August in Falcon Heights, Minn. Gay-marriage backers, who are seeking to defeat the initiative, are likely to far outspend proponents, though the most recent polls show the referendum narrowly ahead. (Associated Press)

    Minnesota to vote on gay-marriage ban

    Even if it is defeated, Minnesota's gay-marriage amendment won't help same-sex couples in the state to wed — rather, it will merely stop the ban from being added to the state's constitution, leaving in place a law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

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