Minnesota

In five occasions, this system has awarded the presidency to candidates who did not win the popular vote

The 60-year-old politician comes with great communication skills and support from the progressive wing

The White House escalates its defense of reproductive rights in this year’s election. Harris’ trip to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is part of a nationwide tour she began in January

A warm, dry El Niño weather pattern coupled with global warming is to blame, scientists say, and has put the threat to winter on center stage

‘I refuse to quit,’ Haley told a small collection of supporters gathered in South Carolina in a speech outlining her rationale for staying in. ‘On Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere’, she said

The president used his stop to announce nearly $5 billion in federal money for the bridge and dozens of infrastructure projects nationwide

Republican candidates campaigning ahead of Monday’s Iowa caucuses were contending with a blizzard warning covering most of the state

Alaska and Arizona had the highest proportions of women in municipal office at 45%. North Dakota had the lowest at 20%

Retail analysts expect overall sales will grow at a slower pace than last year, and there is concern over how shoppers are paying for things

There have still been 8.1 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease and 5.8 million of those have come just this month

The pigs are crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine and are spreading out of control

The white ruffled shirt worn by the artist during his 1985 American Music Awards performance of the famous song has an estimated value of $15,000

The Colorado and Minnesota cases are taking a more legally sound route to get courts to force election officials to disqualify Trump

Biden’s focus on the state comes just five days after Dean Phillips of Minnesota announced he was running for president, becoming the party’s first elected official to challenge Biden in the 2024 primary

While Phillips is unlikely to beat President Joe Biden, a run would offer a symbolic challenge trying to project the idea that there is no reason to doubt the president’s electability

Small towns have such a hard time finding qualified candidates for job openings that some are disbanding their departments

Democrats in both states won full control of their state governments last year and have already passed gun safety packages, expanded voting rights, free meals for all students, and increased protections for abortion rights and LGBTQ+ people

Former officer Tou Thao testified previously that he merely served as a ‘human traffic cone’ when holding back bystanders as former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck as the Black man pleaded for his life in 2020

Wisconsin became the last of 20 states to drop out of the two lawsuits, which were rendered all but moot when President Joe Biden issued an executive order in 2021 that halted wall construction

The move comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court without comment denied Chauvin’s petition to hear his case, letting the former police officer’s conviction and 22-and-a-half-year sentence stand

A National Weather Service meteorologist says fires in northern Quebec and low pressure over the eastern Great Lakes are sending smoke to Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois

Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin called the American government’s use of torture against them ‘a betrayal’ of the rights of victims and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States to justice

The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department ‘made what happened to George Floyd possible,’ according to the DOJ

Along with a few other cities, Minneapolis has issued bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, and restrictions on no-knock warrants. But activist calls to defund the police, and to hold officers accountable have mostly failed

Video posted on social media showed the disturbance began after supporters of Minneapolis Council Member Aisha Chughtai took the stage, which caused an uproar among supporters of her challenger, Nasri Warsame

The proposals include a “red flag law” that would allow authorities to ask courts for “extreme risk protection orders” to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to be an imminent threat to others or themselves