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48+ min ago (452+ words) MINNEAPOLIS " "The $7.2 million mailbox." That's how prosecutors described to the jury the supposed office of Promise Health LLC, the home healthcare company owned by Abdifatah Yusuf on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, where several other similar businesses were supposedly located." Jurors saw dozens of checks written to Yusuf's wife, family members, and $1.1 million in bank transfers and cash withdrawals to himself " money Promise Health received through state Medicaid reimbursements for claiming to provide personal care assistant or PCA services. The jury saw it as fraud and convicted Yusuf of six counts of theft by swindle. "It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the the state's evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt," the jury foreperson Ben Walfoort said. What the jury didn't know is that before they…...

55+ min ago (620+ words) December 9, 2025 / 7:30 PM CST / CBS Minnesota President Trump said he would soon provide "one rulebook" for regulations, sparking some concern a move by the White House would upend individual states' efforts at putting safeguards around the technology. In a'social media post Monday, the president said the U.S. is "beating all countries" when it comes to developing AI, "but that won't last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in rules and approval process." He vowed to sign an executive order later this week. "I will be doing a One Rule Executive Order this week," Mr. Trump wrote. "You can't expect a company to get 50 approvals every time they want to do something. That will never work!" Though the details of any forthcoming directive aren't fully clear, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the senior Democrat from Minnesota, said…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (31+ words) The first round of snow is wrapping up in the Twin Cities, but more is expected to fall overnight. NEXT Weather: 7 p.m. report for Minnesota on Dec. 9, 2025...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (115+ words) December 9, 2025 / 6:52 PM CST / CBS Minnesota Minnesota Yacht Club Festival is returning in 2026 with a lineup featuring popular musicians from the '90s to today. The three-day music festival announced next year's lineup on Tuesday, which features headliners The Lumineers, Matchbox Twenty and The Strokes. Thirty artists are set to perform at Harriet Park Island on July 17-19. Ticket presale begins on Thursday at 10 a.m. Prices range from $150 for a single day to $2,300 for a three-day exclusive experience. General admission for three days starts at $275. A public sale will follow the presale if any tickets remain. See the full lineup of artists below:...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago (38+ words) A man charged in connection with a string of sexual assaults allegedly smeared feces on the walls of his jail cell while resisting officers" attempts to transport him across the street for his initial court appearance on Tuesday....

1+ hour, 38+ min ago (385+ words) ORLANDO " When 5 p.m. approached on Tuesday and Derek Falvey's phone still hadn't rung, the Twins' president of baseball and business operations came to the natural conclusion: the team had not landed the No. 1 pick in next year's draft. "You're waiting and you're like, "It's 5. They would have called by now. This isn't great," Falvey said. No, the luck of the ping pong balls was not on the Twins' side on Tuesday afternoon " they had the second-highest odds of landing the first pick " "but the team still walked away from the draft lottery with the No. 3 overall selection, a good result all things considered. The draft lottery took place behind closed doors at the Winter Meetings in Orlando with the results announced in a televised show on MLB Network. "I was going to live with four. I was going to be OK,…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago (718+ words) By THALIA BEATY, Associated Press Writing in an essay on her website, Scott said, "This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal expressions of care being shared into communities this year." Scott acknowledged donating $2.6 billion in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. The gifts this year bring her total giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion. Scott's donations have captured the attention of nonprofits and other charitable funders because they come with no strings attached and are often very large compared to the annual budgets of the recipient organizations. Forbes estimates Scott's net worth at $33 billion, most of which comes from Amazon shares she received after her 2019 divorce from company founder Jeff Bezos. With the exception of an open call for applications in 2023, it is not possible to apply for her funding…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (911+ words) By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE It's normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations " but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that's under attack by the Trump administration? That's getting more likely: The nation's leading doctors groups are in an unprecedented standoff with federal health officials who have attacked long-used, lifesaving vaccines. The revolt by pediatricians, obstetricians, family physicians, infectious disease experts and internists came to a head when an advisory panel handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged an end to routine newborn vaccination against hepatitis B, a virus that can cause liver failure or liver cancer. That vaccine saves lives, helped child infections plummet and has been given safely to tens of millions of children in the U.S. alone, say the American Academy of Pediatrics and other doctors groups that vowed Tuesday to…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago (394+ words) Excitement pulsed through Bosques de Palermo, a sprawling park in Buenos Aires, as golden retriever-owners from all over Argentina transformed the park's grassy expanse into a sea of bright yellow fur. Dog owners of all ages, their clothes covered in dog hair and stained with slobber, plopped down on picnic blankets with their beloved goldens to take in the surreal sight of so many other, exceptionally similar-looking ones. Children squealed with delight and giddily petted every dog that pranced about. Families posed for pet selfies under the blazing Southern Hemisphere's summer sun. Sipping Argentina's traditional yerba mate drink, attendees swapped fun facts about their favorite breed " such as goldens' famed ability to sniff out low blood sugar and cancer " and shared stories of their retrievers comforting them throughout all of life's ups and downs. "It's a type of dog that's…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (647+ words) By JIM MUSTIAN and JUAN A. LOZANO Federal authorities quietly ended the monitoring this year as they pulled the plug on a similar settlement over wastewater problems in rural Alabama, according to three former law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the move wasn't made public. Without federal monitoring, advocates in Houston said city officials have become less responsive to residents afflicted by persistent dumping in the historically Black neighborhood of Trinity/Houston Gardens. The Justice Department declined to comment. Houston officials did not respond to requests for comment. A DOJ investigation found in 2023 that the Houston neighborhood in question had been inundated by illegal dumping of trash, medical waste, mattresses and even dead bodies and "rotting carcasses" " a description local officials insisted was exaggerated. Its settlement with the city called for three years of federal monitoring,…...