Hopes shifting as Republicans, Democrats wait for Mueller
President Donald Trump has been calling the Russia probe a witch hunt for two years. But now, Trump and his allies are starting to see it as something potentially very different: a political opportunity.
Legislative auditor calls for shift in Minnesota's child-care fraud investigations
They are criminal probes, he said, and belong in the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Trump: Social media sites discriminate vs. conservatives
Trump's comments came in response to a question about legislation to make social media companies liable for their content on their platforms.
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Songs by Jay-Z, Lauper being added to Recording Registry
Songs performed by Jay-Z, Cyndi Lauper and a Robert F. Kennedy speech are among 25 recordings being inducted to the National Recording Registry.
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APNewsBreak: Congress' inaction endangers black lung fund
Former coal miner John Robinson's bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction by Congress and the Trump administration.
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California National Guard to leave border, help stop fires
California is calling in the National Guard for the first time next month to help protect communities from devastating fires like the one that largely destroyed the city of Paradise last fall.
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Foreign aid begins flowing to cyclone-hit southern Africa
International aid has started trickling into the east African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to ease the humanitarian crisis created by floodwaters from Cyclone Idai.
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Long resistant metro-Atlanta county votes down transit plan
A contract with Atlanta's public transportation provider that would have brought a significant expansion of mass transit has been voted down by a north-metro county.
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Research, technical workers to strike on California campuses
A union representing research and technical workers said it will strike Wednesday at 10 University of California campuses and 5 hospitals in a one-day walkout after contract negotiations failed.
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'All is not lost': For many, Mueller is now an unlikely icon
and a name — with the man who has become her rather unlikely idol.
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Justices take up racial bias in Mississippi jury selection
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over a Mississippi prosecutor's decision to keep African-Americans off a black death row inmate's jury in a murder trial.
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Ahead of 2020, Trump returns to Ohio, GOP's gem in Midwest
President Donald Trump is returning to the state that foretold his 2016 victory and serves as the linchpin of his re-election effort.
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Shifting hopes as Republicans, Democrats wait for Mueller
It's a witch hunt, a vendetta, the worst presidential harassment in history.
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Fed is likely to stay 'patient' and project fewer rate hikes
The Federal Reserve is expected to end its latest policy meeting Wednesday by refining its new overarching message that it plans to be "patient" about any further interest rate hikes.
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APNewsBreak: Iowa trooper wrote just 8 tickets as candidate
An Iowa highway patrolman who was recently elected to the Legislature wrote almost no tickets to his future constituents during his successful campaign for a state House seat.
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Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico seek to stay in US
Several asylum seekers who are being forced to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration court told a judge Tuesday that they are afraid to return to Mexico as they await their next hearing — a development that introduces a new wrinkle to a major U.S. policy shift.
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Minn. lawmakers aim to reduce salt runoff from sidewalks
Bills in the House and Senate would create a state program to certify the professionals who apply salt to sidewalks and parking lots, so they know how to best control ice without using excessive salt.
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San Francisco floats ban on e-cigarettes pending US review
San Francisco is trying to crack down on electronic cigarettes that critics say aggressively target kids, with an official on Tuesday proposed what's believed to be the first U.S. ban on their sale until the federal government regulates vaping products.
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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams talks 2020, voter suppression
Georgia's Stacey Abrams said Tuesday she's willing to meet with any candidate running for president in 2020, but warned she has two ground rules before she starts meeting with the wide range of Democratic hopefuls
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Congress receives Trump's new 2020 budget
President Donald Trump's new 2020 budget proposal was delivered to Capitol Hill Monday morning.
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Gov. Tim Walz to press for budget plan in first State of the State
The governor said he will hold one of his future State of the State addresses in greater Minnesota.
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Former AGs Lori Swanson, Mike Hatch to open Mpls. law firm
The firm brings together the last two state attorneys general, both of them litigators with a long history of working together in Minnesota's legal community.
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Records show special counsel zeroed in on Cohen early on
Hundreds of pages of court records made public Tuesday revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller quickly zeroed in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, in the early stages of his Russia probe.
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Republican wins east-central Minnesota House district seat
The special election was triggered by former Rep. Jason Rarick's election to the state Senate.
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