President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots.”.
The death of a man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Florida is at least the 10th fatality linked to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
LeBron James has announced he's returning for at least one more NBA season but won't be with the Los Angeles Lakers.
A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov_ Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”.
Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals.
The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit has been sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison for her role in a staggering $250 million fraud case.
The Trump administration has deferred an additional $91 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing concerns about fraud in state-run programs.
Federal agents have served search warrants in Minnesota in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is working on a book inspired in part by a massive immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and the local pushback.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hosted two events in Barcelona to rally progressive leaders from around the world who fear for a rules-based world order.
Vice President JD Vance has held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential misuse of social programs.
President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state.
Minnesota’s governor and attorney general are defending their efforts to combat fraud.
Gov. Tim Walz has denounced the Trump administration’s latest threat to withhold federal funds from Minnesota as another step in a “retribution” campaign.
Democrats’ top priority as the 2026 session of the Minnesota Legislature gets underway is reining in the power of federal law enforcement to conduct immigration crackdowns.
The Trump administration is scaling back its immigration enforcement surge in and around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but state officials and residents say its effects on Minnesota’s economy and immigrant communities will linger.
Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men.
The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead.
The Trump administration says it is ending its massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after weeks of angry mass protests, thousands of arrests and two fatal shootings.
Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota.
Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement.
Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week’s FBI search of an election office in Georgia have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in store for this fall’s midterm elections.
Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Border Czar Tom Homan will hold a news conference Thursday morning in Minneapolis amid rising tensions over immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents.
President Donald Trump says a “big investigation” is underway into the killing of protester and ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol officer.
A new Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter what state officials have called federal misinformation after immigration officials fatally shot two residents during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
The fatal shooting of Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers has sparked calls for an independent investigation.
Alex Pretti, a Minnesota nurse, is the sixth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in the U.S. Federal authorities immediately said Pretti was a threat to federal officers.
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting in the city by federal officers.
The fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a federal immigration officer touched off a firestorm and prompted some fellow Republicans to question President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration crackdown, but the president on Sunday night doubled down and blamed Democratic officials.
Moderate Democratic Sen_ Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that her “attempt to mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis is “deeply shameful.”.
Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a man in Minnesota.
In dueling news conferences, federal and state officials offered starkly different messages about the immigration crackdown that has swept across Minneapolis and surrounding cities.
A federal officer fatally shot a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press.
A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
Vice President JD Vance says he came to Minneapolis to help “lower the temperature” in the city.
The U.S. Army has ordered several dozen additional active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minneapolis if needed amid protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.
Maine has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement wave.
Democrats are rethinking their midterm election strategy due to the controversial immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Federal prosecutors have served six grand jury subpoenas to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says sending active duty soldiers to Minnesota for an immigration crackdown is ridiculous and unconstitutional.
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has discussed her country’s future with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis.
Renee Good's family hired the law firm that represented George Floyd’s family to seek answers and accountability for the Minneapolis mother's killing by a federal immigration agent.
A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense.
The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer.
A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money from flowing to five states for now.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his agency is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia.
A Minnesota prosecutor is calling on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.
Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Fights over which agencies will be involved in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis are roiling as calls for a thorough investigation and accountability mount.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running for a second term in the pivotal battleground state after a first term that put him on the Democratic Party’s radar as a potential presidential contender in 2028.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has shot and killed a Minneapolis driver during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city.
The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched in Minnesota what it's calling the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is ending his bid for a third term amid President Donald Trump’s relentless focus on a fraud investigation into child care programs in the state and its Somali community.
The Trump administration has announced that it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
The surge of federal officers this week in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.
Federal prosecutors say about half of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen.
Mike Lindell, the fervent supporter of President Donald Trump known to TV viewers as the “MyPillow Guy,” says he’s running for Minnesota governor in 2026.
President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “shithole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations.
Federal agents have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis.
Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt from Donald Trump was a shock in the country’s largest Somali community in Minnesota.
President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country.
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S. The operation, which could begin soon, targets people in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area with final deportation orders.
President Donald Trump has pledged to end temporary legal protections for Somalis in Minnesota, sparking fear in the state's immigrant community.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leading Democratic critic of President Donald Trump, says he'll consider running for the White House in 2028 after the midterm elections next year.
Political analyst Daniel Cronrath joins me on this week's episode of Politics & Power to analyze former Vice President Kamala Harris' book, "107 Days," and what’s next for Harris.
Private investment firms that are helping finance America’s artificial intelligence race and the huge buildout of energy-hungry data centers are getting interested in the local utilities that deliver electricity to regular customers — and the servers that power AI.
In an excerpt of former Vice President Kamala Harris's new book, she says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing.
President Donald Trump says he would have ordered flags lowered to half-staff after the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker if the governor had asked, but Trump at the time refused to even call the governor.
The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at a Minneapolis church was seen on video visiting a suburban gun shop the weekend before the attack.
Governor Tim Walz plans to call a special session of the Minnesota Legislature to consider tougher gun laws after last week's shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.
Officials say a shooter opened fire during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself.
Ken Martin, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, says he's bringing a bazooka to the fight against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies.
Iowa’s state party officials say it was a mistake that the party’s 2024 nominating calendar forced them to ditch the five-decade, first-in-the-nation caucus where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate.
A federal grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally shooting a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and seriously wounding a state senator and his wife.
The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a two-day tour in South Carolina, urging rural voters to stand up to President Donald Trump and challenge Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
A man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14 says he's looking forward to the facts coming out.
Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman has been honored at a funeral where former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended.
Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, will lie in state in the state Capitol Rotunda on Friday, a day ahead of their funeral.
People fearful of being arrested for wearing masks while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities have voiced anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents covering their faces.
