Minnesota

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. 06/03/19, 10:24

The Latest on sentencing for a man who admitted throwing a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April (all times local): 10:25 a.m. A man who threw a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony at the ...

Sports 05/30/19, 12:55

Two years ago, Minnesota was ranked No. 1 in the USA Today/NFCA softball poll heading into the NCAA Tournament.Somehow, the Golden Gophers weren't even a national seed and got sent to Alabama for regional play. It was a harsh fate ...

Soccer 05/29/19, 20:17

Josef Martínez scored two goals in second-half stoppage time to help Atlanta United beat Minnesota United 3-0 on Wednesday night.Atlanta (7-5-2) ended a two-game losing streak with its sixth win in eight games. Minnesota (6-5-3) had its two-game winning streak ...