MINNEAPOLIS — Abortions increased nearly 16% in Minnesota in 2023, driven by women traveling from states with more abortion restrictions as well as the state’s easier access to medication options.

The 14,124 abortions in Minnesota in 2023 marked the second straight annual increase and reflected the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court decision ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two special elections for open seats in a Roseville House district and a Minneapolis Senate district have drawn a number of candidates with control of both chambers at stake.

Last month a Ramsey County judge ruled that Curtis Johnson was ineligible to serve for the House District 40B seat he was elected to in November due to...Read more

The deadly Jan. 1, 2025, attack in New Orleans serves as a reminder of the persistent threat to the U.S. from individuals inspired by extremist Islamist groups.

While the investigation is still ongoing, some details of the suspect have been released. Authorities say Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, was behind the assault in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have included five immigration-related measures in an initial package of rules for the 119th Congress, potentially teeing up early floor votes on an issue that the GOP heavily leaned into during the 2024 campaign.

The bills appear to be versions of legislation the House passed during the 118th Congress but ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump went on a social media blast following the recent truck attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people, though he has yet to make a specific comment on the Tesla Cybertruck explosion that occurred outside of his hotel in Las Vegas.

On his Truth Social, the president-elect said the crime rate in the country is at a “...Read more

WASHINGTON — All eyes will be laser-focused on Friday’s speaker vote as Mike Johnson tries to cling to the House gavel, potentially overshadowing what could be two awkward days for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Johnson has already lost the support of fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, meaning he likely cannot afford another ...Read more

Anti-abortion advocates recently scored a victory against the city of Minneapolis over an ordinance banning them from blocking entrances and driveways to clinics.

The city agreed to settle a lawsuit challenging a 2022 ordinance limiting access to abortion clinics, by amending the law and agreeing to pay the anti-abortion group’s legal fees, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Finally, the long-sought lifting of the cap on state and local tax deductions seems to have the support it needs in Congress.

“I am confident we will get it done,” said Rep. Mike Lawler, R-New York, a leader in the battle to end the $10,000 per filer limit.

A lot of Democrats are sympathetic.

“You have the same Democrats ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday suggested “radical Islamic terrorism” and President Joe Biden’s “open borders” were to blame for the deadly New Orleans truck attack, even though the suspect was an American-born military veteran.

Although he did not specifically name the New Orleans killings of 14 New Year’s revelers, Trump ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump went on a social media blast following the recent truck attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people, though he has yet to make a specific comment on the cybertruck explosion that occurred outside of his hotel in Las Vegas.

On his Truth Social, the president-elect said the crime rate in the country is at a “level ...Read more

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker could potentially have a new and unexpected partner to push his objectives on improving the U.S. food industry during the second Trump administration.

After three years of holding a narrow majority, Booker and fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate will now be in a 53-47 minority. Their legislative hopes will...Read more

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three years because of their Japanese heritage.

“We...Read more

President Joe Biden said law enforcement officials were looking for any additional people who may have played a part in the attack in New Orleans that left at least 15 people dead.

Biden said initial indications — including social media videos posted by the suspect in the hours ahead of the attack — suggested he had been influenced by the ...Read more

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s opponent Peter Magyar sought elections earlier than the one scheduled in 2026 amid opinion polls showing the ruling party losing its popularity. The government said elections will be held next year.

“Let there be a new election, to return the right of deciding their fate to the people,” Magyar ...Read more

Though the 2024 election was generally favorable for Republicans nationally, Maryland’s next congressional delegation will consist of nine Democrats — including four new members — and just one Republican.

Read on to learn more about the two senators and eight House members who will represent the state upon being sworn into the 119th ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he would lobby House Republicans to help elect Mike Johnson as speaker if needed, acknowledging that some lawmakers in the party had reservations about allowing him to retain the gavel.

Asked if he would press Republicans to back Johnson, whom he endorsed on Monday for the post, Trump said he ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two special elections that will decide control of the Minnesota Legislature began to take shape on Tuesday, as more than a dozen candidates filed to run for vacant seats in the state House and Senate.

Democrats Doron Clark, Peter Wagenius, Iris Altamirano, Mohamed Jama, Monica Meyer and Joshua Preston filed to run for the safely...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of a Maryland woman once dubbed “the Black Widow” by federal prosecutors, who convicted her in a 2002 jury trial of mail and wire fraud for “intentionally” causing the deaths of a boyfriend and at least one husband in order to collect around $160,000 in combined life insurance ...Read more

Donald Trump has made clear his intent to supercharge his “America First” approach to foreign policy in his second term – and Mexico looks set to be at the tip of the spear.

While many of Trump’s predecessors have also followed a “realist” strategy – that is, one where relative power is at the forefront of international ...Read more