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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has promised to provide up to $15 million in funding that he says the United Nations will lose because of President Trump’s decision to pull out from the landmark Paris climate deal. The billionaire’s charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, on Thursday pledged...

By Pat Pheifer Star Tribune Mohamed Iye wore a brilliant smile Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. In minutes, he would greet his wife and two young daughters. He had not seen them in more than two years. Iye, 66, a Somali-born U.S. citizen who...

The U.S., the UK and France launch air strikes on Syria, targeting suspected chemical weapons sites.   SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

The death of a U.S. Navy SEAL in Somalia this week highlights the little-known mission that U.S. military advisers have been carrying out in that country: to advise the Somali military in its fight against the al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab. Since 2013 a small number...

The US government on Thursday released a mammoth, long-awaited trove of secret files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, but withheld others for further review on national security grounds. In a statement the National Archives said that on orders from President Donald Trump...

BLOOMINGTON — A Minnesota man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for delivery of khat, a plant material considered illegal in the U.S. but widely accepted in the defendant's native Somalia. Mohamed O. Samantar, 60, was stopped by Illinois State Police in June...

Rainier Beach graduate Ahlaam Ibraahim got a full scholarship to the University of Washington. The 18-year-old Somali American has started a group to help students with application and financial-aid paperwork. She wants others to believe, "If Ahlaam can do it, so can I." People often...

Muslim leaders in the Washington area have condemned the recent terrorist attack in Mogadishu that killed nearly 400 people and injured 228. Imams and diplomats expressed shock and horror at Friday prayers. Imams, Somali community leaders, the ambassadors of two African nations, a representative from...

By Editorial Board Star Tribune Maple Grove students showed how to counter hate. The nation now has as its president-elect a man who came to Minnesota on Nov. 6 and described the growing, contributing Somali-American share of this state’s population as unwanted, and its impact on...

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMANJUNE 12, 2017 WASHINGTON — A longtime friend of President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Trump was considering whether to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the president’s campaign and Russian officials. The...