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Republicans have refused to accept that President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in Wisconsin by almost 21,000 votes, despite recounts, a state audit and court challenges that have upheld the results.
Gov. Tim Walz on Friday announced he's directing state agencies to terminate any contracts with Russian entities as the country invades Ukraine.
Grassley, 88, announced his intentions in September to seek another six-year term. If completed, he would be 94.
Mariana Pykivska, 34, has been working on a Waverly farm six months a year for more than a decade. Her family is in a small town in central Ukraine.
The Minnesota Senate held its first votes Thursday on a package of Republican-backed education bills promoted as a "Parents Bill of Rights," most of which likely won't become law this session but will tee up some hot-button social issues for the election campaign.
Minnesota and Wisconsin will each get billions from the infrastructure law, which passed with bipartisan support late last year.
Among the many names in the ring from the Republican Party are well-known Minnesota Sens. Paul Gazelka and Michelle Benson, former Sen. Scott Jensen, businessman Kendall Qualls, and former Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek.
Teachers in Minneapolis could walk off the job next week, and on Wednesday another union voted to authorize a strike.
Former WCCO Radio personality Cory Hepola announced Tuesday that he's running for governor as a centrist third-party candidate.
Biden is delivering the State of the Union address before both houses of Congress on Tuesday amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and less than a week after he announced his nominee for the Supreme Court.
Biden will land in Duluth and give remarks at University of Wisconsin-Superior Wednesday afternoon.
A Minnesota Senate elections committee on Tuesday began considering a bill to block local governments from using outside money for election expenses.
Republican lawmakers in the Minnesota House outlined Tuesday a public safety plan that includes a crackdown on crime and harsher penalties for carjackings.
Republican Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke immediately rejected the call to decertify the election, saying it was a "fool's errand."
The updated forecast was $1.5 billion more than the whopping $7.7 billion surplus that Minnesota Management and Budget projected in December for the current two-year budget period.
