UC Berkeley's "Free Speech Week" events are canceled: campus officials

All of the events set to begin Sunday Milo Yiannopoulos’ “Free Speech Week” have been canceled, according UC Berkeley’s administration.

Mediator: Dayton and Legislative leaders at 'impasse'

The mediator, ordered by the Minnesota Supreme Court, to help reconcile Governor Mark Dayton and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature, determined the two have reached an "impasse."

Dayton blasts federal government for holding up lower cost insurance program

As the health care debate heats up again in Washington D.C., Governor Mark Dayton is cranking up the pressure on the Trump administration.

Bernie Sanders' health care plan puts Democrats on the spot

Sen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he's disrupting the party anew, forcing Democrats to take sides over his plan to provide government-financed health care for all.

FBI analyst to MN Senate: terrorism has changed

The FBI told Minnesota state senators that threats of terrorism have changed and it's requiring law enforcement to change, too.

15 states, DC sue Trump administration over ending DACA

15 states and Washington, D.C., sue Trump administration over plan to end protections for young immigrants.

Trump ends DACA, Dreamers march in Minneapolis

The Trump administration on Tuesday officially announced plans to “wind down” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the United States without documentation as children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the announcement in a Tuesday news conference, calling the Obama...

Obama calls decision to phase-out DACA 'cruel'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Barack Obama says Trump's decision to roll back 'dreamers' program is 'cruel' and 'self-defeating'

Labor Day minimum wage rally brings 'Fight for 15' to St. Paul

Fast food workers in St. Paul are spending their Labor Day pushing for a $15 minimum wage. A Fight for 15 rally started at 6 a.m. Monday at the McDonald’s on West Seventh Street.

Wisconsin proposal would revoke licenses of repeat drunken drivers for decade

Wisconsin lawmakers will soon consider a bill that would strip repeat drunken drivers of their licenses for at least a decade. The Assembly passed the bill last session but it didn't get a floor vote in t

Trump expected to end DACA, Minnesota immigrants respond

They came to the U.S. illegally at a young age and were protected from deportation. Now, according to the Associated Press, hundreds of thousands of people are at risk as President Trump decides to end a program known as DACA.

President Trump expected to announce end to Obama-era DACA, official tells Fox News

President Trump is expected to announce plans to end President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which had halted the deportation of certain young undocumented immigrants, a senior administration official told Fox News.

Rep. Jason Lewis discusses current political climate

U.S. lawmakers are taking a break from Washington with many traveling back to their home states, including here in Minnesota. Some are even showing up here at the State Fair.

Legal battle over budget veto rests with Supreme Court

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton and top Republican lawmakers took their legal battle to the state's highest court Monday, arguing before the Minnesota Supreme Court in a case that will determine whether the Legislature will receive its funding and could set major precedents surrounding the governor's authority.

Bay Area protest uncertainity

A controversial Patriot Prayer rally scheduled for Saturday afternoon in San Francisco's Crissy Field has been canceled. 

President Trump grants pardon to former Sheriff Joe Arpaio

President Trump has pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. A statement was released, calling the sheriff a worthy candidate of a presidential pardon.

Citing Trump remarks, most of president's arts council quits

Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and virtually the entire membership of the President's Committee On the Arts and Humanities have announced their resignation. A letter dated Friday, signed by 16 of 17 committee members, cited the "false equivalence" of President Donald Trump's comments about last weekend's "Unite the Right" gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia

Plastic bag fee fails to pass Minneapolis City Council

In a 10-2 vote, a proposed ordinance that would charge shoppers a fee of five cents on paper and plastic bags in stores in Minneapolis failed to pass the city council Friday morning. The council sent the ordinance back to city staff for further review.

Defiant Trump insists anew: Blame both sides for violence

A combative President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday 'there is blame on both sides' for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them.