Minnesota

U.S. 04/15/21, 20:59

The president of Minnesota's largest police union blasted the city's authorities for the way they handled Daunte Wright's death, blaming the 20-year-old victim for his tragic end. Brian Peters, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association executive director told WCCO news talk radio on Wednesday that, "This is going to be ...

U.S. 04/11/21, 05:15

A Minnesota business owner refuses to remove a "Trump 2020" flag even though he may face a fine or even "go to jail" for violating a city ordinance. Jay Johnson of Buffalo, near Minneapolis, is flying the custom-made flag atop a crane at his construction company. "It looks small because it's 150 ...

U.S. 10/31/20, 12:42

A large group of President Donald Trump supporters drowned out Joe Biden’s drive-in campaign rally in Minnesota on Friday night, Oct. 30, prompting the Democratic presidential candidate to lash out at them as "ugly folks." Photojournalist Rebecca Brannon shared a sequence of videos on Twitter, describing Biden holding the rally in a “vast ...

2020 Campaign 08/17/20, 20:35

In a speech on Monday, Aug. 17, President Trump pledged to give tax incentives to companies that bring their manufacturing back from China to the United States. It's part of his plan to reduce dependence on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and create a more robust domestic industry, Fox News ...

World 01/23/20, 09:17

A University of Minnesota student was arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for a series of tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document, reviewed by the Axios website. Some of the detained student's tweets contained cartoon images and text that ...

U.S. 12/05/19, 18:17

Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm field in central Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz confirmed. The identities of the soldiers were not immediately released, pending notification of family. The crash ...

U.S. 11/30/19, 13:56

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm moved eastward, dumping heavy snow from parts of California to the northern Midwest and inundating other areas with rain. Authorities found the bodies of two young children, including a 5-year-old boy, and a third ...

U.S. 11/27/19, 11:59

A day after bringing havoc to the Rocky Mountains, a powerful winter storm rolled across the Midwest on Wednesday, threatening to scramble Thanksgiving plans for millions of people during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. The storm, which was blamed for one death and hundreds of canceled flights, ...

U.S. 11/26/19, 10:50

A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming Tuesday, prompted school closures in Nebraska and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled as the busy Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear. That storm was heading toward ...

2020 Campaign 11/05/19, 01:55

Television hosts from a major commercial broadcaster were surprised to find voters from three states thought the president did nothing wrong, and the continuing impeachment inquiry was unnecessary on Nov. 3. A segment from "Meet the Press" on NBC News showed host Chuck Todd and National Review Editor Rich Lowry appeared ...

Politics 10/11/19, 14:27

President Donald Trump made use of his campaign rally in Minnesota on Thursday, Oct. 10, to blast House Democrats for launching the probe that he called “insane impeachment witch hunt.” “Now the Do-Nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate. Thirteen months, they’ve got to move fast, because they’re not ...

Politics 10/11/19, 11:15

The crowd chanted “lock him up” after Eric Trump brought up the Bidens to attack ahead of his father’s speech at the campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday night, Oct. 10. “How do you think Joe Biden and his—how do you think his son is feeling right now, right after ...

Politics 10/11/19, 00:54

President Donald Trump used his campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota to lash out at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), questioning how the voters could allow her to represent them in the district. During the rally on Thursday night, Oct. 10, President Trump called Omar an “America-hating socialist” who will be a big ...

Politics 10/07/19, 15:33

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from her husband, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of her marriage. The freshman Democrat filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi on Friday in Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court. Omar and Hirsi have been legally married since 2018 but have been together for years. The petition, ...

Politics 09/28/19, 13:36

President Donald Trump plans to visit Minnesota in October for the next campaign rally. The Trump campaign announced Friday, Sept. 27, that the president will host a “Keep America Great” rally on Oct. 10 at 7:00 pm CDT at Target Center in Minneapolis. The rally will be a chance for President Trump ...

2020 Campaign 06/18/19, 04:17

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has released a list of 100-plus executive orders she said she'd sign in her first 100 days in office. The orders include rejoining the Paris climate agreement and allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. The list is intended to give voters an idea of what ...

Politics 06/11/19, 13:03

Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules. They also revealed that she had filed joint tax returns with her husband years before they were legally married and at a time when she was married to another man. The ...

Politics 06/06/19, 19:09

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar violated state rules when she used campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel and help on her tax returns and must reimburse her former campaign committee nearly $3,500, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled Thursday. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term Democratic ...

U.S. 06/05/19, 17:31

A Minnesota man is accused of a bias crime for allegedly spraying a Somali American teenager and her siblings with a garden hose while he yelled racial slurs.Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Manahan of Faribault, Minnesota, was charged Monday with felony stalking committed because of bias as well as misdemeanor charges of damaging ...

U.S. 06/03/19, 12:49

The parents of a 5-year-old Minnesota boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America decried the assailant's actions as "evil" while saying they forgive him at a hearing Monday where a judge handed down a 19-year prison sentence.Emmanuel Aranda showed little emotion during his ...