Minneapolis Police Union Endorses Johnson For Governor
Republican candidate for governor Jeff Johnson announced Monday he's been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
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Republican candidate for governor Jeff Johnson announced Monday he's been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump, will visit the Republican Party of Minnesota's North Branch office Thursday in an effort to rally voters.
There's 22 days until the midterm elections, and already more than 30,000 ballots have been accepted and received in Minnesota's most populous county.
Noah Johnson, the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis party candidate for Attorney General, announced he'd put his support behind Rep. Keith Ellison.
The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to fossil fuel exports, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two Republican lawmakers.
Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released a report on a DNA analysis that provides strong evidence she does, in fact, have Native American heritage.
Upon touring the damage in several towns along Florida's Panhandle, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long called the destruction left by Hurricane Michael some of the worst he's ever seen.
Combined with previous budgetary maneuvers agreed by outgoing Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republicans, more than $2 billion in a new state budget and health care for millions of Minnesotans is up in the air.
Beto O'Rourke's response to a question during a Houston town hall meeting this past summer lasted only four minutes. But for some Democrats it said everything. It was authentic. In an exchange that quickly went viral, the Democrat congressman and Senate hopeful was asked whether he found NFL players who knelt during the national anthem to be disrespectful. A passionate O'Rourke told the room of Texans, not necessarily a sympathetic crowd, that he could "think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights."
Walter Mondale held the highest political office of any living Minnesotan, serving as vice president from 1977 until 1981. He has a few upcoming events where he will discuss the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and offer reflections on 1968 and similarities to today.
President Donald Trump said he looked forward to Saturday's Oval Office meeting with Andrew Brunson, the American pastor whose release after nearly two years of detention in Turkey was a diplomatic triumph for Trump. "It will be wonderful to see and meet him. He is a great Christian who has been through such a tough experience," Trump said in a tweet confirming the White House meeting for 2:30 p.m.
A dispute between the Minneapolis mayor and the city's police union president escalated Friday morning. Lt. Bob Kroll appeared on Fox News Channel in response to Mayor Jacob Frey's unveiling of new police squad signs that are in both English and Spanish. They explain to undocumented immigrants what their rights are when police arrest them.
The Minnesota attorney involved in a sexual harassment lawsuit now at issue in the 3rd Congressional District race says Democratic challenger Dean Phillips had nothing to do with the case.
Prince's surviving family members are asking President Donald Trump to stop using the late rock star's music at campaign rallies.
Rep. Keith Ellison's divorce records will be unsealed Oct. 17 after two Minnesota news outlets sued to gain access to the Democratic attorney general candidate's court file.
