El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people ...

The central bank has raked in more than $3 billion by buying murky bullion and swapping it for much-needed dollars.

Today in History for Aug. 28: In 430, St. Augustine of Hippo, the great early Latin Church father and one of the outstanding theological figures of the ages, died at age 76. It was St. Augustine who ...

A New Zealand lawmaker was ejected from Parliament for a second day Wednesday after refusing to apologize for calling her opponents spineless.

Tom Olsen covers crime and courts and the 8th Congressional District for the Duluth News Tribune since 2013. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth and a lifelong resident of the city.