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The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party will take control of both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature after riding a national wave of anti-Trump fervor that swept the country Tuesday. With Democrat Amy Klobuchar’s victory in the governor’s race, Minnesota will again have a DFL trifecta after two years of shared control…
Democrats have won the majority of governor’s offices for the first time in 16 years after the GOP racked up major losses across the country. Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas and defended competitive races in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to unofficial results from…
Jake Johnson, a former high school math teacher who campaigned on lowering costs and working-class concerns, held a razor-thin lead in unofficial results early Wednesday against Republican U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad, in what would be a major upset in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. The difference between the two…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Matt Little won the election to represent Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House, defeating state Sen. Eric Pratt, R-Prior Lake, leading by a wide margin, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s unofficial results Tuesday evening. Little, a 41-year-old attorney, served as the mayor of…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan made history Tuesday as the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, a distinction she may share with Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola if she wins her race. The two-term lieutenant governor beat out Republican Michele Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter and conservative…
Amy Jean Klobuchar became the first woman elected Hennepin County attorney in 1998, the first woman U.S. senator from Minnesota in 2006, and on Tuesday she became the first woman to be elected Minnesota’s governor. Klobuchar, 66, prevailed over Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth as Democrats secured the…
Georgia voters elected the nation’s first Black woman governor on Tuesday while neighbors to the south in Florida became the first to elect a Black Republican governor. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades. In Florida, Republican…
Minnesota voters re-elected Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison to a third term Tuesday, handing him another four years to pursue his pledge to be a check on the Trump administration and large corporations. “I cannot wait to keep fighting for you for these next four years,” Ellison said to cheers at the…
WASHINGTON — Democrats will regain control of the U.S. House early next year, after voters throughout the country rejected the policies that Republicans and President Donald Trump implemented during the last two years. The Associated Press, which States Newsroom looks to for the projected winner of congressional…
This article will be updated throughout the day with additional voter interviews. A lot has happened these past two years. This is the first election since the start of President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and the inflation that it’s fueled. Every week seems to bring a new story about the defrauding of the state’s
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and shape President Donald Trump’s remaining policy agenda. As of Monday, more than 57 million Americans had cast a vote, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab…
Finally, it’s arrived. Some common questions, answered. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. If you’re in line by 8, you can vote. You can type your address in here and get your answer. You don’t need to show ID, but don’t try voter fraud, as it can result in a felony
If you feel like you saw an inordinate amount of negative political ads on your phone or TV the past few weeks, you’re right: Of the $47 million that outside groups have spent on the general election as of Oct. 19, the majority has gone to ads attacking opposing candidates rather than touting preferred ones.
Fewer than 1 in 20 rental listings across the largest U.S. cities are flagged as reserved for renters under an income limit, according to new data from Apartments.com. But average income-restricted rent fell year over year in 13 of the 50 markets, compared with three for market-rate rent. Just 4.6% of listings across…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by…
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston grants a partial victory to the 25…
Top Trump administration officials announced the arrests of four Medicaid providers at St. Cloud’s police headquarters Friday, alleging they fraudulently billed for services. The announcement came a day after federal and state agents raided childcare centers and early autism therapy centers. The arrests and press…
A federal judge has ordered the federal government to immediately return Kenis Lopez Gonzalez to the U.S. from the Central African Republic, where he has been detained since August despite having no ties to the country. Lopez, who has no criminal record, arrived in the U.S. in 2022 from Nicaragua and turned himself in…
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They…
Kenis Lopez Gonzalez fled political persecution in Nicaragua in 2022 and turned himself in to immigration authorities upon arriving in the U.S. Two years later, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported back to Nicaragua because he was at risk of being tortured there. He moved to Shakopee, Minnesota…
More than nine months after immigration agents disarmed, shot and killed Alex Pretti in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, the site of his death on Nicollet Avenue is marked with carefully arranged flowers, candles, art and other offerings brought by visitors from near and far. As the snow melted in the spring…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late Thursday press release. In-person rallies packed…
We work quickly on our feet every day as parents to keep our children protected and healthy. So I’ll never forget the day I stood speechless in my kitchen, holding the letter declaring my daughter with Type 1 diabetes no longer had health insurance. My heart sank. I had no idea how we would pay
During a recent debate, both U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth ruled out raising taxes if elected governor. Demuth said, “Tax hikes are absolutely off the table for me,” while Klobuchar added, “I have made clear I’m not going to increase taxes, and I would actually like to lower taxes.” In
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court within days. In a scathing…
This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here with permission. Bill McAdams, a 45-year-old travel nurse from Holiday, Florida, was uninsured last year when he experienced a stroke. He hadn’t been able to afford his agency’s health plan, which would have cost $3,600 monthly to cover him and his…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as Homeland Security asked for an emergency…
This story was originally reported by The 19th. Dolores Huerta, who rose to national prominence as the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and was known for her advocacy for women farmworkers, died on Wednesday. She was 96. Huerta was born in New Mexico but spent most of her life in California’s…
Right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been charged by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for unlawful voting and identity theft after they pulled a dress-up stunt during the Aug. 11 statewide primary election, unsuccessfully trying to show that Minnesota’s defense against voter fraud is…
Gwamaka Mahenya knew studying in the United States would mean making sacrifices. The St. Olaf College junior applied to universities elsewhere, such as in the United Kingdom, and had been accepted to some. But coming to the U.S. made financial sense, he said, even if it meant being farther from home. Now, as federal…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
Candidates for Minnesota’s statewide offices, alongside their deep-pocketed outside allies, have poured millions of dollars into what will likely be the most expensive midterm election in state history, according to campaign finance documents released Tuesday. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic nominee for Minnesota…
The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has increased in the past two years, largely because many people can no longer afford Obamacare coverage after Congress allowed federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The uninsured rate for adults ages 19-64 rose to 11.2% this year, up from…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
Nine months after immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Pretti’s parents are publicly calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release information and evidence related to Pretti’s killing. “We are here today begging for the Department of Justice to do what is right — to hold the men who…
From testing voting equipment to reviewing election results, nonpartisan League of Women Voters volunteers are observing firsthand how Minnesota’s election safeguards work. Voters need more than assurances. They need to know safeguards are in place, procedures can be observed, and problems can be identified and…
WASHINGTON — Fewer than 5% of U.S. House races are seen by a top political analysis as truly competitive heading into November’s midterm elections, giving relatively few voters the ability to determine which party controls the chamber for the next two years. The other 414 of 435 House districts are viewed by the…
The Minnesota Department of Education is hiring an outside auditor to examine Fridley Public Schools, according to a letter sent to the district Oct. 20, signed by Commissioner Willie Jett and obtained by the Reformer. The letter details significant concerns about financial management and the potential for the…
House Speaker Lisa Demuth declined to say Monday whether she would pardon convicted murderer Derek Chauvin if she’s elected governor. Demuth, the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor, convened the Capitol press conference Monday to again criticize Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s response to fraud in Minnesota’s social…
Former federal and state judges sent a letter Monday requesting the dismissal of a misconduct complaint filed last month by the U.S. Department of Justice against nearly every federal judge in Minnesota. Minnesota’s federal judges, including U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, who was until recently the chief judge…
President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour campaign to intervene in California’s vote counting encountered its first resistance from federal courts on Monday, with appellate judges ruling against the effort. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S. Department of Justice request for a…
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Alaska in federal court last week over its U.S. Senate election. In California, the DOJ appealed a lawsuit judgment against suspected noncitizen voters. These actions are part of a broader push by the administration to block and tackle their way to GOP electoral success…
NAYTAHWAUSH — Peggy Flanagan took the microphone and began, as she always does, in Ojibwe. “Boozhoo,” she said, giving her name, her tribe and her clan before switching to English. “Thank you for welcoming me home.” Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, had traveled hours…
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Residents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town are facing the prospect of a 47-acre data center facility on their doorstep. “Right here behind this fence is where they want to put up the data center, and as you can see, there’s houses right across the street, roughly 100 feet,” said lifelong…
Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across…
The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up its legal campaign over the midterm elections, suing Alaska over its U.S. Senate election and appealing a lawsuit against suspected noncitizen voters in California. Election law experts have cast doubt on the strength of the cases, criticizing them as performative. The…
This story was first published by ProPublica. In early August, election workers north of Spokane, Washington, went across the street to the post office to check for late mail-in ballots. It was three days after the primary and they were expecting no more than a few dozen. Instead, their mailbox was brimming with…
The current Trump administration claims its mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July of this year, but those include both voluntary returns and people turned around at the border, according to a new analysis by the former chief statistician for the Department of Homeland Security…
PORTLAND, Ore. — The latest cosponsor of a U.S. House bill to provide single-payer health insurance defeated a Republican incumbent in a suburban and rural Oregon district by fewer than 10,000 votes two years ago. U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat now seeking her second term, doesn’t have the far-left profile of…
A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked the Department of Homeland Security from conducting election-related field operations that could sweep up U.S. citizens in nine states. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, issued a…
WASHINGTON — The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible many people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. The cost of individual…
Doug Chapin says he had an epiphany on the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term. “He pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters, and I thought, ‘You know, I need to do something about this,’” Chapin told me recently. The D.C.-based firm where he did research for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission was hit hard
Two months after taking office as Hennepin County Attorney in 1999, Amy Klobuchar rearranged the furniture in the office’s reception area. The next day, the furniture had been moved back. Klobuchar moved the furniture again. Someone moved it back. Klobuchar moved it again. One staffer told Klobuchar that the rest of…
Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar each focused on guilt by association during their final gubernatorial debate Wednesday. Repeating a theme on display up and down the ballot this year, Demuth argued that Klobuchar is aligned with Gov. Tim Walz and would govern similarly, while…
National Democrats are suing President Donald Trump, accusing his administration of intimidating election officials and asking a federal court to block him from interfering in the midterm elections. The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in Washington, D.C., comes as the Trump administration mounts a highly public offensive…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to implement a rule that would terminate gender-affirming care for transgender people incarcerated in federal prisons. It means a lower court order that blocked the policy from going into effect will remain in place for…
For decades, manufactured home builders have been working to shed the old image of boxy trailer homes reserved for the outskirts of cities and suburbia. Now, a small change in federal regulations could open the door for architecture welcomed in more neighborhoods. This summer’s sweeping housing bill, the 21st Century…
We need to stop treating homelessness among people raised in the foster care system as a problem that begins when they leave the state’s care. By then, we may already be years late. At Foster Advocates, a foster-founded and foster-led organization, we have been telling Minnesota about the instability that can follow…
HYANNIS, Neb. — With 19 days until Election Day, Dan Osborn sat across from three skeptical voters in a conference room in this blink-and-you-miss-it rural Nebraska town. Osborn, a bearded former union leader and Navy veteran, wants to become the first independent U.S. senator from Nebraska since World War II by…
Minnesota hospitals had a record high of over 2 million emergency department visits in 2024. That year, more than a quarter of hospitals lost money on operations. The Minnesota Hospital Association painted a bleak picture of Minnesota healthcare Tuesday in a new report titled “A Statewide Crisis of Care.” The…
When Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham became engaged, the first decisions were of small, giddy consequence: where to hold the ceremony, whom to invite, what to wear. But soon enough, a far weightier question eclipsed them all: whether they could afford to marry at all. They learned that, as people with disabilities…
Single-family home completions remain stuck at early pandemic levels as of September as costs, labor supply shortages and high interest take a toll on home builders, especially in the Northeast and South. Apartment building was a more mixed picture, down nationally but up sharply in the Midwest (53%) and West (18%)…
In a TikTok video from January, Matt Little stands a couple feet away from a federal immigration agent sitting in a car with his window open. “There’s some bad folks that joined to do some bad things,” Little says to the agent, who wears a black neck gaiter covering most of his face and black
Republished with permission from The UnPopulist. Before dawn last Monday, agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, entered the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., with a search warrant. They left with her phone, computers, notebooks and…
Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar wasted no time throwing Gov. Tim Walz overboard during her first debate with Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth. The Brainerd debate between the two candidates for governor was hosted by the KSTP and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Most of the questions centered around Minnesota’s business…
A conservative legal organization is representing homebuilders in a lawsuit aimed at invalidating parts of — if not all of — a 1,400 page mega-bill passed by the DFL-controlled Legislature in the chaotic final minutes of the 2024 legislative session. The Minnesota Constitution requires that bills address a single…
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected…
Hundreds of Minnesota lakes, rivers and creeks lie downstream of industrial sites where well sampling shows significant groundwater contamination. In most of them, state agencies have yet to sample fish — or at least publish the results of completed tests — for PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals associated with a…
We were told Trump’s mass deportation project would target the “worst of the worst.” We watched with our own eyes as our neighbors and family members were kidnapped off the streets and our fellow Minnesotans killed. The videos contradicting the Trump administration’s lies about its killings of Renee Good and Alex…
Party control is up for grabs in 15 state legislative chambers across the country as Republicans are increasingly on the defensive this midterm election cycle, a new analysis found. The nonpartisan newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released its final analysis of state…
With the general election just 16 days away and early voting underway in dozens of states, people across the nation took to the streets Saturday to urge their friends and neighbors to get out and vote. The No Kings: Vote Early Day of Action held more than 2,500 events in all 50 states and the
Organizers launched more than 2,500 No Kings events across all 50 states and the District of Columbia Saturday, this time focusing their efforts on the midterm elections. From roadside rallies to letter-writing campaigns and protest songs, this round of demonstrations aimed to get people to the polls early. In the…
Under a sunny sky, people trickled into Commons Park in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday, forming a crowd of hundreds for a “No Kings” event focused on turning out voters for the midterm elections. Emmett Doyle, a folk musician and one of 15 defendants facing federal felony conspiracy charges stemming from protests…
Minnesota’s U.S. Senate candidates share a burden: each is tied to an unpopular man. That burden was on display Friday in the only scheduled debate, hosted by MPR News, between Republican Michele Tafoya and Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. Tafoya would not say if she would share a stage with President Donald Trump…
Democratic U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith along with U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon reported Friday that their offices were sent threatening letters with suspicious substances. The letters to Klobuchar, Smith and Simon were intercepted before reaching the officials’…
WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected…
In recent election questionnaires in her bid for governor, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said she voted to cap the price of insulin for Minnesotans — an example of how she says she has worked throughout her legislative career to make life in the state more affordable. But Demuth, alongside nearly every…
I am one of the 68 million Americans living with a mental illness and one of the over 10 million Americans who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Living with these diseases and seeking treatment is highly stigmatized — and newly precarious under the policies of the current federal administration. The best way…
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the…
The Minnesota Department of Health is urging people to get vaccinated for measles if they haven’t already. The guidance comes amid two unrelated outbreaks of measles since mid-September in rural Fillmore and Todd counties. Minnesota has had 42 recorded cases of measles in 2026, already exceeding the total of 26 cases…
AUSTIN, Texas — It was a good day for the defense. Standing in front of a judge in Austin’s Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, attorney Matthew Shrum secured a ruling that spared his client from serious punishment on a shoplifting charge. In the hallway immediately afterward, the defendant thanked Shrum with…
The Minneapolis City Council failed to override a mayoral veto of an ordinance that would have required Waymo and other robotaxi companies to put human “safety monitors” behind the wheel and pay them minimum rates. The proposal aimed to protect the jobs of the state’s roughly 10,000 rideshare drivers, who have become…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might…
Lisa Demuth asked God whether she should run for Minnesota House minority leader. On the morning Minnesota House Republicans were electing a new leader after a bitterly disappointing 2022 election, Demuth read the Bible verse 1 Peter 4:10: “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts…
WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are touting an ambitious legislative agenda centered on affordability and accountability if they take back the U.S. House or Senate — or both — in November. A slew of pressing policy debates are on tap for Democrats, including healthcare, immigration, voting rights, the war in Iran, oversight…
Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to an Oct. 14 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. In the last consumer price inflation report before midterm elections, with voters already fed up with higher prices, September’s number was the highest since May, when it…
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection need to improve oversight and guidance for federal immigration officers’ use of body-worn cameras, according to a Wednesday report from independent federal investigators. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security…
Editor’s note: Below is an except of a letter written by a group of ethics lawyers to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel calling for an investigation into whether the recent raid on the Washington, D.C. home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar violated the Hatch Act, which prevents the use of official authority or influence
WASHINGTON — A federal judge late Tuesday extended a block on a Trump administration ban of press passes for three news organizations, which will allow them to continue to enter the White House grounds while a legal challenge to the ban, including a Wednesday appeal filed by the administration, plays out. U.S…
Minnesota’s next governor will face multiple education challenges when they take office, and few aspects of the job are more important. Funding for public schools comprises nearly 40% of the state budget and is the single biggest line item. That funding accounts for about two-thirds of all spending on public schools…
Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams said she would no longer recommend closing any schools next school year, less than a month after first proposing closures. Board Chair Collin Beachy said that he would not allow any resolutions to close schools for the 2027-28 school year to be placed on the…