Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury found Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, 32, guilty of seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five girls ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when he was 30 years old.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison defeated Republican newcomer Jim Schultz in Tuesday’s election to win a second term in a race that turned largely on crime and abortion.
Control of Congress hung in the balance early Wednesday, with both parties notching victories in some of the most competitive races in a midterm election that centered on voter frustration over high inflation and the sudden rollback of abortion rights.
A former University of St. Thomas student accused along with a prominent Minnesota GOP donor of child sex trafficking pleaded not guilty to numerous charges Thursday in federal court.
A prominent Minnesota GOP donor is being sued by an underage girl, the Minnesota State Fair wrapped up its run well below usual attendance and the St. Thomas men’s hockey team will play their first home game at the Xcel Energy Center. Director Justin Amaker has today’s News in :90.
The chair of the University of St. Thomas College Republicans, Gisela Castro Medina, 19, has been indicted for allegedly recruiting six minors to engage in commercial sex acts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a statement Monday.
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) party Rep. Ryan Winkler presented the adult-use cannabis bill to the Minnesota House of Representatives that would legalize recreational marijuana, and on Feb. 23, the bill passed through its second round of House committee meetings. Scout Mason and Lauren Dettmer have the story.
Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Trump issued a restrained call for peace but did not call on his supporters to leave.
The outcome in several contested states will determine whether Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump. But if the Democratic challenger wins, the ambitions of a Biden presidency could well come down to Georgia.
Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Those put Biden in a stronger position to capture the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House.
A large and confident crowd at the Minnesota Republican election party Tuesday night was greeted with disappointment after Joe Biden won Minnesota, dashing President Donald Trump’s hopes of becoming the first Republican to carry the state since Richard Nixon in 1972.
The Summit League commissioner said a decision on St. Thomas’ Division I move will not be reached until at least January and Republicans stormed into a closed-door deposition, briefly halting the Democrat-led impeachment investigation. Production Editor Emily Haugen.
President Donald Trump held a rally in Minneapolis Thursday, the first since Democrats began proceedings two weeks ago to remove him from office. Trump was defiant in the face of an impeachment probe.
