Minnesota lawmakers last year passed a sweeping law protecting abortion rights and making Minnesota a reproductive rights refuge in the Upper Midwest. But the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case whose outcome could still limit access to an abortion pill despite Minnesota’s protections.

The Minnesota Parents Alliance and its conservative allies spent thousands on school board races this year, predicting that their candidates who promoted “parental rights” would win big among suburbanites.  But voters last week rejected the majority of the group’s candidates, electing 11 out of the 44 that MPA endorsed. Despite the losses, MPA did score […]

Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.

Changing climate, invasive species and pollution are threatening the wild rice plant harvested as a sacred food by Ojibwe people in Minnesota.

Lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk’s 2018 comments opposing sexual ‘freedom’ are not the only controversial remarks he’s made about women or abortion.

Unemployment has fallen across the country — to rates lower than those that Trump left office with — following actions taken by the Biden-Harris Administration.

Republicans have under-performed in early elections in multiple districts, signalling that a so-called ‘red wave’ for the GOP is unlikely.

Incumbent Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) is running against Republican nominee Tyler Kistner, who accused Democrats in Congress of working to implement ‘a communist-centered-type health care plan.’

New York, California and Minnesota are among the states taking steps to protect abortion providers and patients.

Fire officials in some cities worry that the cancelations of community displays could prompt some people to ramp up their use of consumer-grade fireworks.

More lawmakers are introducing and passing legislation to protect LGBTQ people in their jurisdictions from the discriminatory laws of other states.

Jennifer Carnahan was forced out of her job as chair of the Minnesota Republican Party over ties to an alleged sex trafficker.

Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.

Anton Lazzaro was arrested on several charges of federal sex trafficking earlier in August.

The governor signed an executive order on Thursday morning banning the harmful practice.

They’re putting measures that hurt trans people into unrelated bills on things like education and health care.

‘What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do today,’ the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

‘Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

As a violent mob descended on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., protests in other states also cropped up.

The annual accusations of a ‘war on Christmas’ could have deadly results in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rep.-elect Michelle Fischbach is fine with Trump’s desperate delays.

The slip-up came as the Trump son continues to make baseless allegations of voter fraud.

‘We follow the state guidelines and we expect the campaign when it’s here to do the same thing.’

The South Carolina Republican is raising money for Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis.

Also: The House of Representatives votes to end Trump’s Muslim ban, and New York expands voter registration.

Gov. Tim Walz signed a police accountability bill into law Thursday that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis, though some activist groups say the legislation falls short. The bill, passed by the Legislature earlier this week, also bans chokeholds and fear-based […]

Rep. Jim Hagedorn believes the nation is under attack from supporters of racial justice.

Also: States move to make Juneteenth a paid holiday, and scientists find an inexpensive and widely available drug may help treat COVID-19.

Streets remained mostly calm on Tuesday as Donald Trump demanded military intervention against protesters.

Also: The governor of Pennsylvania wants to raise the state’s minimum wage, and Michigan is helping businesses procure protective equipment.