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14+ min ago (318+ words) The Texas Southern men's basketball team came into Sunday's game against the Gophers with one of the worst resumes in Division I. The Southwestern Athletic Conference team was 1-6, with the lone victory coming over College of Biblical Studies, a Division II school. That's an hallelujah moment for the Houston school compared to blowout losses to Gonzaga, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt by an average of 41.2 points per game. The Gophers kept the Tigers down with a 89-53 win at Williams Arena. Minnesota(6-5) improved to 6-0 at home this season. With Texas Southern (1-6) allowing 86.7 points per game (352nd in the nation), Minnesota set a season record with 15 made 3-pointers. Cade Tyson scored a career-high 38 points, including a program-tying eight made 3-pointers. He also added 11 rebounds Sunday. When at Belmont, Tyson had 31 points against Samford in Dec. 2023. The Gophers came into the game at No. 3 in…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (44+ words) Sunday marks the first day of Hanukkah for Jewish people around the world. But many will be gathering with heavy hearts after 11 people were killed in what Australian officials say was a "targeted attack" on the Jewish community in Sydney over the weekend....

2+ hour, 10+ min ago (327+ words) December 14, 2025 / 12:06 PM CST / CBS Minnesota Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship. "Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go," Omar said in an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning. WCCO has reached out to ICE about the incident. The congresswoman said her son "always carries" his passport with him." Omar said ICE also previously entered a mosque where his son and others were praying, but left without incident. After that, she said she "had to remind him just how worried I am, because all of these areas that they are talking about are areas where he…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago (644+ words) BROOKLYN, MI " When Beatrice Nestor moved to Brooklyn after living away from Jackson area for several years, she noticed a beautiful, dilapidated 1860s building. She saw its potential and thought of how wonderful it would be if someone did something about it. "Why couldn't that be us?" Nestor said. "There's something special about the building that connected with me, and I just really felt that this was kind of a small way we could help it." Nestor grew up in Addison, and her family owns Maple Drive Farms north of Addison. She and her husband moved all over the world, before buying a house in Brooklyn when her husband's job with Kraft Heinz brought him back to the Midwest, she said. She bought the property at 101 Monroe St. in September 2024, after visiting the area to see their new home. Construction started…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago (219+ words) Giannis Antetokounmpo: Out - Calf AJ Green: Out - Shoulder Taurean Prince: Out - Neck Cam Thomas: Out - Hamstring Haywood Highsmith: Out - Knee E.J. Liddell: Out - Ankle Game date, time and location:Sunday, Dec. 14, 5:00 p.m. CST, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York Radio:AM 620/103.3 FM (Milwaukee), Sirius XM Channel 212 VITALS: TheMilwaukee Bucks(11-15) andBrooklyn Nets(6-18) meet for the third of four regular season matchups. The two teams previously met in November and earlier this month, with the first being a loss for the Bucks and the last one a win. The Bucks are 154-114 all-time versus the Pistons during the regular season, including 63-73 in home games and 36-37 in road games. G Kevin Porter Jr. F Gary Trent Jr. F Michael Porter Jr. Spread:Bucks -1.5 (-114), Nets +1.5 (-106) Moneyline: Bucks -130, Nets +110 Total points scored: 219.5 (over -114, under -106) Bucks head coachDoc Rivers on how the team can respond to practice and film: "You…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago (44+ words) Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy (9) claps his hands as he leaves field after the Vikings beat the Washington Commanders, 31-0 in a NFL football game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday, Dec, 7, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago (36+ words) Winds out of the south and some sun will warm the metro above zero this afternoon, but wind chills will stay well below. NEXT Weather: 10:30 a.m. report for Minnesota from Dec. 14, 2025...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago (26+ words) Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is calling for clarity about the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. Rep. Ilhan Omar discusses letter to DHS, Trump's attacks...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago (683+ words) It's memoir day, from overcoming disability to family life in Minnesota. "Ghosts of Fourth Street: by Laurie Hertzel (University of Minnesota Press, $24.95) Hers is a colorful story about being the shy, quiet, often lonely seventh of 10 children growing up in the 1960s in a house in Duluth that was usually chaotic with kids everywhere, all of them readers. Her mother, Trish, was always busy with a new baby, and her father, known as Guv, had two moods " good or bad. At the beginning of the book, Hertzel hints of the death of her brother, the oldest child who often clashed with their father. But it isn't until near the end we learn the sad news that changed the family on June 11, 1966, when Bobby drowned while water skiing. Some of the happiest parts of the book are Hertzel's memories of Christmas rituals,…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago (604+ words) LOS ANGELES " A funny thing about this year's best films: Half of them are adaptations. As a movie lover who's always hunting for new talent, new ideas and new stimuli, I used to view that as creative inertia. But 2025 has changed my mind. Now I see artists drawing inspiration from the past to show that Hollywood should trust the sturdy bones that have kept it running for over a century: good yarns, bold casting, films that don't feel made by focus groups or doomsaying bean-counters (or, God help us, AI), but by blood and sweat. From original tales to radical reworkings of classics both high-falutin' and raucously lowbrow, these 10 filmmakers all know that the most vital part of the storytelling business has stayed exactly the same. They have to wow an audience. And they did. (Hedda" is available'on Prime Video.) (One…...