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Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

Travelers are bracing for extended disruptions to start the working week in the US as airlines try to get their schedules back on track following an intense winter storm that saw the most flight cancellations since the Covid-19 pandemic.

 The killing of a Minneapolis man by federal agents is escalating a standoff between state and federal officials over the Trump administration’s massive deportation operation in Minnesota, prompting tense and urgent debates over federal jurisdiction and the rule of law.

A federal appeals court will soon decide whether the Trump administration can fire a majority of the staff at an agency tasked with helping consumers and take other actions that could gut the bureau.

Miami International Airport was partially evacuated Sunday after luggage was left unattended at Departures, Door 21, officials said. Transportation Security Administration checkpoints for concourses G, H and J and surrounding areas were evacuated and were still closed shortly before 7 p.m., Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesperson Greg Chin said. “Passengers driving to MIA this evening ...

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has filed to end her reelection campaign following months of scrutiny over her age and her ability to continue in her role as the capital’s nonvoting House member. Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, the campaign committee for the 88-year-old Democrat, filed a termination report Sunday with the Federal Election Commission, seemingly bringing to an end a House career ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is pushing Minnesota to share its voter rolls and data on Medicaid and food stamp recipients with the federal government, a move Minnesota’s top elections official criticized as an “apparent ransom” to end the ICE crackdown in the state. In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz dated Jan. 24, the same day as the second fatal shooting of a Minnesotan by federal agents, Bondi ...

A colossal winter storm barreled across an unusually large swath of the nation on Sunday, dumping snow and ice from Oklahoma to the Deep South to New England. The giant system knocked out power to more than a million customers, caused deaths in multiple states, prompted widespread school cancellations, ground travel to a halt and promised more uncertainty during the frigid days to come.

Brian Todd was watching football on Jan. 11 when federal immigration officers pulled into his driveway, walked over to his neighbor’s house on the east side of St. Paul, detained the adults and left behind two children under 15 years old. Todd, who has children about the same age, took them in. For days afterward, he tried to track down family from out-of-state. It took nearly a week until a ...

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Jan. 23, in a peaceful, often buoyant show of resistance against the federal surge in immigration enforcement across the state. Less than a day later, a violent confrontation sent the city reeling once again: Federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse from Minneapolis who had been ...

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order brought by Attorney General Keith Ellison against the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies, preventing them from altering or destroying evidence related to the fatal shooting Saturday of Alex Pretti by DHS agents in Minneapolis. U.S. District Court Judge Eric C. Tostrud granted the order late Saturday filed by ...

Several legal experts say they haven’t seen any evidence to support the allegation that several Minnesota officials obstructed recent federal immigration enforcement as members of the Trump administration have suggested. Federal prosecutors last week delivered subpoenas to the offices of Gov. Tim Walz, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and other officials, as the Justice Department seeks ...

On a chilly January afternoon at a Stew Leonard’s grocery store in Paramus, New Jersey, prominently featured in the center of the liquor department, sit stacks of colorful boxes of hemp-infused drinks.

MINNEAPOLIS – A U.S. Border Patrol officer fatally shot a man in Minneapolis shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday, federal officials said, in the third shooting involving federal immigration agents in recent weeks.

MINNEAPOLIS — A man was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday morning in the Whittier neighborhood of south Minneapolis, setting off hours of confrontation between protesters and law enforcement. Sources familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune that the man killed was Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, who attended the University of Minnesota and lived in south Minneapolis. ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Five refugees and a consortium of legal groups that work on advancing the rights of immigrants have filed a class action lawsuit against federal officials over Operation PARRIS, a sweeping effort by the Department of Homeland Security to detain and “re-examine” refugees admitted to the United States legally, but have not yet gotten green cards. It applies to an estimated 5,600 ...