SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- This week's bitter cold has created record crowds at the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House in downtown Sioux Falls. It's 'standing room only' by day...with night guests sleeping wherever they can find floor space. Dudley House officials say the kitchen has run out of food every day this we...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Some push back in the legislature on the long-term leases for the One Stop government centers in Sioux Falls and Rapid City. The state Senate Appropriations committee voted unanimously this morning to require legislative approval for long-term state building leases. That's a direct respo...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- They're planning the future for Sioux Falls Park and Recreation, and they want to hear from you. Parks & Rec department leaders have been working on the 2030 Park System master plan for several months. Project Manager Mike Patton says it's a tool that will be heavily used. You can co...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The idea of fencing off part of downtown is on hold in Sioux Falls. The City Council deferred action on a proposal last night to lease a vacant lot near the Bishop Dudley House, and build a fence around it. Police Chief Jon Thum says it's a troubled area of downtown. Chief Thum believes ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- How safe is the city of Sioux Falls??? Mayor Paul TenHaken and area law enforcement officials released the semi-annual crime stats Tuesday. Police Chief Jon Thum says the public has been focused on one glaring number. The Mayor says the addition of about six thousand new residents had an...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- With a tight budget this year, it's hard to get any new money from Pierre. A legislative committee killed a bill today that would ahve increased childcare assistance rates from the current 75 percent, up to 90 percent. During testimony, it was revealed that South Dakota already ranks among th...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden is in Washington, attending his first National Governor's Association conference. But, he didn't leave the state without another round of trying to convince legislators to approve plans to fund and build a new men's prison in Lincoln County. There's a move to rename the ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Another committee hearing, and the prison funding bill is still alive. The Legislature's Joint Appropriations committee heard another hour of testimony this morning on a proposal to build an 825-million dollar men's penitentiary in Lincoln County. That's the guaranteed maximum price for the n...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Still no word on the reason behind a lockdown of the entire South Dakota prison system that began Tuesday morning. Officials say it wasn't because of any disturbance or assault, but other than that, are not releasing any information. No timeline has been given on how long it will last. ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The location of a proposed new men's penitentiary between Harrisburg and Canton is a major stumbling block, but it isn't the only problem. Republican Representative Kevin Jensen of Canton is one of the most vocal opponents of a plan to build a new men's penitentiary in his legislative district...

(Reuters) -Tesla said on Friday it was recalling nearly 380,000 vehicles in the United States due to a power steering assist failure that could increase steering effort, particularly at low speeds, potentially raising the risk of a crash. The recall fo...

(Reuters) - Rivian Automotive is recalling 17,260 vehicles in the U.S. due to a headlight issue that can reduce visibility and increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday. The headlight low beam m...

By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a Republican bill promoting President Donald Trump's immigration, energy and defense policies in the early hours of Friday morning, despite Trump's preference for a House of Represen...

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were largely flat on Friday after declining in the previous session when investors fretted over President Donald Trump's tariff threats and the Federal Reserve's interest rate outlook. All three indexes clocked ...

By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in December, is due in court in New York on Friday afternoon as he faces state murder and ter...

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on Sunday, pointing to likely tricky coalition buil...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan magistrates' court charged detained opposition politician Kizza Besigye with treason on Friday, rejecting his lawyer's pleas that he be transferred to hospital to help him recover from ill health stemming from a hunger...

WARSAW (Reuters) - A Ukrainian has been found guilty of planning acts of sabotage on behalf of Russian services and sentenced to eight years in prison, a Polish court ruled on Friday. Poland and other NATO countries have been experiencing increased...

By Anna Magdalena Lubowicka and Małgorzata Wojtunik SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) - Three years since the arrival of Russian forces drove her from her home in eastern Ukraine to Poland, Oksana Sapronova and other refugees fear their homeland's battlefiel...

By Amanda Ferguson DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill said on Friday she would not attend St Patrick's Day events at the White House in protest over President Donald Trump's position on Gaza. Political leaders from ...

LeBron James scored 40 points for the second time since turning 40 and also grabbed eight rebounds while leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 110-102 victory over the host Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday. Austin Reaves added 32 points and seven assi...

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Canada beat fierce rivals the United States 3-2 in overtime to win a riveting 4 Nations Face-Off final in Boston on Thursday and close out an ice hockey tournament high on political tension. Connor McDavid scored the win...

(Reuters) - World number three Carlos Alcaraz was left ruing a mistake that let Jiri Lehecka off the hook in the third set and allowed the Czech to fight back and claim a 6-3 3-6 6-4 victory in the Qatar Open quarter-finals on Thursday. Four-time G...

Giannis Antetokounmpo returned following a six-game absence and scored 23 points in 24 minutes as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the visiting Los Angeles Clippers 116-110 on Thursday. Brook Lopez scored 22 points, Damian Lillard added 15 and Taurean Prince ...

Jiri Lehecka knocked off top-seeded Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz on Thursday to advance to the semifinals of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha. The 23-year-old Czech trailed 4-2 in the third set before rallying to win 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Lehecka struck eight ac...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's finance minister said on Friday that the challenge of an upcoming income tax reform will not be exempting workers earning up to 5,000 reais ($876) per month, but rather offsetting such revenue loss by taxing those who ...

By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore announced on Friday a set of measures to rejuvenate its equities market, including a 20% tax rebate for primary listings and a S$5 billion ($3.74 billion) program that focuses on investing in domes...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump says value-added taxes carry a lot of blame for America's near trillion dollar trade deficit with the rest of the world. The 170-plus countries who charge VAT - including top U.S...

By Manya Saini (Reuters) - Payments firm Block's shares fell 8% in premarket trading on Friday as a slowdown in spending growth fueled investor concerns, turning the spotlight to its bet on buy-now, pay-later lending to drive profits in 2025. Consu...

By Johan BODINIER and Antonis Pothitos (Reuters) - France's Air Liquide said on Friday that only two out of their six previously awarded hydrogen projects for the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) might move forward after President Donald Trump froz...

(Reuters) -Teva Pharmaceuticals and Alvotech said on Friday they have launched a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson's autoimmune drug Stelara in the United States, the second in a wave of near-copies of the blockbuster treatment. J&J over the past two yea...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Women can safely skip the unpleasant speculum-based exam for human papillomavirus screening and instead test for the virus themselves using a vaginal swab, two new studies confirm. Genital HPV infections are thought to be...

By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Indian pharmaceutical companies will be able to retain their dominant market share in the U.S. in selling generic drugs even if President Donald Trump imposes high tariffs because they are "highly compe...

By Ashwin Manikandan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian insurers are considering making New Delhi residents pay 10% to 15% more for new health policies after an extraordinary spike in claims related to air pollution in 2024 in India's capital, according ...

(Reuters) - Shares of Telix Pharmaceuticals surged to a record high on Friday after the company forecast annual bumper revenue, while its full-year earnings for 2024 soared more than ninefold. The Australian biopharmaceutical firm's stock jumped as...

By Gianluca Lo Nostro (Reuters) - The CEO of Airbus said on Thursday he would be happy if space merger talks with Thales and Leonardo led to a venture like the MBDA European missile project and hopes EU antitrust regulators will take a looser stanc...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth's confines causes many physiological ch...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon program, according to people familiar with the changes, adding more uncertainty over the agency's space exploration trajectory as Elon Musk and P...

By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) - Google has developed an AI tool to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical scientists, the U.S. blue chip said on Wednesday. The new tool, tested by scientists at Stanford University in the U.S. and Imperial Coll...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously hot gas planet t...

By Jiaxing Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese tech stocks listed in Hong Kong advanced on Friday for their best weekly winning streak since 2020, as earnings surprises and optimism about the artificial intelligence sector drew global investors rotati...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese startup DeepSeek will make its models' code publicly available, it said on Friday, doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence. The company said in a post on social media platform X that it wil...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese automaker SAIC Motor said on Friday it would partner with tech company Huawei to develop new "globally competitive" smart electric vehicles. The tie-up sees yet another state-owned automaker betting on partnerships wit...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Universities across China have launched artificial intelligence (AI) courses this month based on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, whose AI breakthrough has been described as a "Sputnik moment" for China and garnered widespread att...

By Elizabeth Howcroft, Lucinda Elliott and Hannah Lang (Reuters) - A cryptocurrency that briefly surged on Argentine President Javier Milei's support before crashing is the latest in a series of politically endorsed meme coins facing a backlash. Th...

BEIJING (Reuters) - As "Ne Zha 2" shatters box office records, the Chinese animated film about a mythical boy with magical powers has sparked national pride and now hostility towards rival Hollywood offerings such as the latest instalment of "Capta...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -An Argentine court has cleared three of the five people accused of their alleged involvement in singer Liam Payne's death, local media reported on Thursday. The court dismissed charges against businessman Rogelio Nores, a friend...

By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a six-decade-long career, "Taxi Driver" actor Robert De Niro is starring in his first television series - but he is not convinced he would do it again. "I don't know. It's a lot of work. It's like doing t...

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) - For Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai, her new documentary, "Timestamp," about daily school life during Russia's now three-year-long invasion, had its Berlin Film Festival premiere at a key...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The chief executive of streaming giant Netflix on Thursday announced a $1 billion investment to produce films and TV series in Mexico over the next four years. Speaking at a morning press conference in Mexico City, CEO Ted S...