Was there collusion? Trump lawyer walks back earlier remarks
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday walked back comments from the night before in which he maintained that he had "never said there was no collusion" between Russia and members of Trump's 2016 White House campaign.
Trump's attorney general nominee: 'I will not be bullied'
Vowing "I will not be bullied," President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt and that his predecessor was right to recuse himself from the probe.
As workers miss paychecks, shutdown set to hit record length
The partial government shutdown was on track to become the longest closure in U.S. history as President Donald Trump and nervous Republicans scrambled to find a way out. A solution couldn't come soon enough for federal workers.
At the border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration
Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government, cutting scattered services and leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay.
Trump stalks out of shutdown talks with Dems, says 'bye-bye'
President Donald Trump walked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday — "I said bye-bye," he tweeted— as efforts to end the 19-day partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rosenstein, a frequent Trump target, will leave Justice Dept
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the most visible Justice Department protector of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and a frequent target of President Donald Trump's wrath, is expected to leave his position soon after Trump's nominee for attorney general is confirmed.
Health, gun violence, education top House Democratic agenda
Leaders of the new Democratic Minnesota House majority unveiled their first 10 bills of the session Wednesday, including a plan to let all residents buy into the MinnnesotaCare health program for the working poor.
Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. charged in unrelated case
The Russian lawyer who attended the Trump Tower meeting that is a focus of the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion was charged with obstructing an unrelated tax-fraud case, federal prosecutors in New York said Tuesday.
Paychecks stop for federal workers, but bills keep coming
As the government's partial shutdown pushed toward a third week, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are feeling the financial pinch.
Rhodes scholar and 'Dreamer' fears he can't return to US
He became the first "Dreamer" to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, but for recent Harvard University graduate Jin Park, the joy of that achievement has given way to uncertainty.
Walz chooses Lourey to head state Human Services
Gov.-elect Tim Walz named state Sen. Tony Lourey on Thursday to take over Minnesota largest state agency, the Department of Human Services, which is responsible for nearly one-third of the state's spending.
No deal to end shutdown; Trump says 'could be a long time'
No one budged at President Donald Trump's closed-door meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, so the partial government shutdown persisted through Day 12 over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. They'll all try again Friday.
Trump EPA orders rollback of Obama mercury regulations
The Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation.
Minnesota grants permit for updated Red River diversion plan
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday it has granted a permit — with conditions — for an updated plan to divert the Red River to protect flood-prone Fargo and nearby Moorhead, Minnesota.
Trump signals no end to shutdown: 'You have to have a wall'
A shutdown affecting parts of the federal government appeared no closer to resolution Wednesday, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats locked in a hardening standoff over border wall money that threatens to carry over into January.
Mattis outlines strategic hazards facing next Pentagon chief
The extraordinary resignation letter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis handed to a surprised President Donald Trump was not just a product of two years of accumulating frustration with an impulsive boss, but an outline of the strategic hazards facing the next Pentagon chief.
Federal shutdown begins after lawmakers fail to reach deal
A partial federal shutdown took hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump's demands for $5 billion to start erecting his cherished Mexican border wall, a chaotic postscript for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling government.
Congress sets up showdown over border wall, shutdown
House Republicans approved a package with the president's $5.7 billion request for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. That is almost certain to be rejected by the Senate.
USDA moves to tighten work requirements for food stamps
The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year's farm bill didn't: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance.
In memo, Trump's AG pick criticized aspect of Mueller probe
President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, William Barr, sent an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department this year criticizing a central prong of the special counsel's Russia investigation, attacking as "fatally misconceived" the idea the president could have obstructed justice.
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