Lawmakers are once again coming out with a proposal to bring sports gambling to Minnesota. Various gambling bills have had ...

Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming has died at age 93. Simpson died early Friday. A political moderate by current ...

The Senate is has just hours left to avoid a partial government shutdown. Minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats have ...

Minn., is hosting town halls on Friday in Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska, following reports ...

The murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin needs to be reexamined on the basis of facts alone.

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A series of events in all 50 states aims to capitalize on a recent warning from Republican leadership that its lawmakers ...

Two federal judges handed down orders requiring President Donald Trump's administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he's ready to ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their first big battle against President ...

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...

Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...