MINNEAPOLIS — Democrats won a pair of special elections for Minnesota House seats in St. Paul and the east metro on Jan. 27, restoring the chamber to an even partisan split before the Legislature returns for its 2026 session.

Labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai easily defeated Republican and IT professional Dan Walsh for the safely blue seat left ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Venezuela has, for the first time in nearly a decade, a genuine opportunity for political change, marking a sharp shift from what he described as a long-frozen crisis under former strongman Nicolás Maduro.

“For the first time in literally a decade there is the opportunity that something ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social-media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

The federal government Wednesday inched closer to a shutdown as the Senate remained deadlocked over a spending bill that would fund Immigration Customs and Enforcement amid the agency’s deadly clashes with protesters in Minneapolis.

Large swaths of the federal government will shut down Saturday morning unless President Donald Trump and ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

America’s role in the world is changing. If this wasn’t obvious before, it should be now, following President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland and his visibly strained relations with traditional allies in Europe and elsewhere.

But how much will the world change if America’s stance is different?

Some ...Read more

President Donald Trump claims that birthright citizenship isn’t that: a birthright. He wants the authority to revoke the citizenship of U.S.-born children of immigrants here illegally and visitors here temporarily.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on birthright citizenship this spring. It will likely hand down a ruling by summer. Before ...Read more

It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the fact that even many Democrats have criticized their failure to appear should be a warning to the power couple.

Bill Clinton has a history of thumbing his nose at the legal process. In 1998, he ...Read more

Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet said Tuesday that they wanted several reforms to federal immigration authorities’ practices ahead of a U.S. Senate funding showdown as the backlash to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis intensifies.

Hickenlooper said he hoped Republicans would agree to the reforms, which include prohibiting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump has announced an executive order to allow victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to rebuild without dealing with "unnecessary, duplicative, or obstructive" permitting requirements.

The order, which is likely to be challenged by the city and state, claimed that local governments have failed to adequately process ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A man appeared to spray a substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar during her town hall in Minneapolis’ North Side on Tuesday.

In prepared remarks, Omar was calling for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday kicked off his midterm campaign schedule in Iowa with a pair of messaging gambles, touting an economy on which many voters have soured and urging farmers to give his global tariffs more time.

Standing behind signage that read “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks,” Trump didn’t begin the...Read more

FREMONT — A Fremont lawyer with a million-dollar war chest is challenging five other candidates in the race to fill U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s open East Bay congressional seat.

“My goal is to get more people involved in the process,” Rakhi Israni told Bay Area News Group on Monday. “People want fresh thinking in Congress.”

Israni, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the two parties are in talks with the White House over U.S. government funding as Democrats threaten to force a partial U.S. government shutdown following a mounting public backlash over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

The fatal shooting of Minnesota nurse Alex...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was looking to “de-escalate” in Minnesota with a reshuffle of the leadership running his deportation effort in the state following widespread outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents.

Still, the president denied he was pulling back his immigration crackdown and said that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate panel that oversees the Department of Homeland Security, is looking to impose reforms on the department after its agents' shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this month amid demands for accountability.

Peters told The Detroit News that Democrats on the Senate ...Read more

Nicki Minaj is continuing her support of the MAGA movement with the recent confirmation that she will appear at the president’s summit this week promoting his “Trump accounts.”

The rapper is scheduled to be one of several speakers at the event organized by the Treasury Department and scheduled for Wednesday.

“The summit marks a key ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York is on track to lose two seats in the House of Representatives after the 2030 census as population growth in several Democratic-leaning states lags far behind the rest of the country, a new population report predicted on Tuesday.

The Empire State’s delegation would have just 24 seats, down from the current 26, a dip that ...Read more