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A "Muslim Day at the Capitol" event in St. Paul took a fresh turn Wednesday when Minnesota GOP Chairman Keith Downey took the stage to address controversial remarks about Muslims by Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
The governor said the state must first look at expanding existing facilities and reducing prison sentences for low-level drug offenders.
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said he would veto if it reached his desk.
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Rep. Tim Sanders offered legislation in a House committee hearing Tuesday to ensure fantasy sports leagues remain legal in Minnesota.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, an Iron Range stalwart, said Monday that he looks forward to reform of the Range's key economic development agency after a blistering audit last week.
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A former city official and member of a prominent political family who once considered running for Maryland governor faces prostitution charges, more than 15 years…
Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson, who served as the chair of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign will announce he is supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for president.
Homeowners and small businesses in the second sunniest state in the nation have invested nearly a quarter billion dollars in roof-top solar and related labor thanks to a program fueled by tax credits.
A Washington D.C. regulator approved Exelon's nearly $7 billion takeover of rival utility Pepco, but the deal will only go through if Exelon agrees to the regulator's terms.
Under a fresh cloud of overseas violence, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded wins with their chief rivals on Tuesday and attacked each other's worldviews as the 2016 presidential contest turned into a clash of would-be commanders in chief.
The contentious Minnesota House hearing signaled an uncertain path ahead for proposal.
To clinch the Republican presidential nomination, a candidate needs to accumulate at least 1,237 delegates, which is a majority of the 2,472 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. California, the nation's most populous state, awards the most delegates.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley isn't saying whether she would recuse herself from an abortion case in light of comments she made as a college student equating abortion to the Holocaust.
The Justice Department says more than 8,000 violent fugitives were arrested during a six-week operation.
Key New York lawmakers are continuing efforts to legalize daily fantasy sports following Monday's agreement by its two biggest websites to stop taking bets in New York until July.
Federal officials must stop sending nuclear materials to South Carolina and should reroute a shipment of plutonium coming from Japan, Gov. Nikki Haley told the U.S. government in a letter.
The lead contamination of Flint's water is "a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction, and environmental injustice," according to a task force created by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to investigate the crisis.
Sen. Pat Toomey on Wednesday became the latest Republican senator to say he'll meet with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, but said he'll tell him the Senate won't fill the vacancy until a new president is elected.
Prosecutors are appealing a federal judge's finding that a man convicted of killing two New York City police detectives cannot be executed because he's intellectually disabled.
A proposed Alabama constitutional amendment would legally define a fetus as a person from the moment of fertilization, effectively banning abortion in the state.