Politics

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing two companies that she says target military veterans and senior citizens for high-interest loans.

Shortly after Inge Thulin and Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison announced Wednesday they were following other prominent executives and leaving the president's Manufacturing Advisory Council, Trump said he was disbanding the panel.

It's just simply factually wrong to compare Confederate generals to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

A joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica shows how a loophole in Florida law has led to the arrest and even deportation of undocumented immigrants after they suffer legitimate injuries on the job.

For all the talk about President Trump and Russia, he has yet to lay out a grand plan on dealing with Moscow. The Russia probes are an obstacle to cooperation. And he has resisted confrontation.

Workers removed four statues linked to the Confederacy, hauling away monuments that honored Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Roger B. Taney, author of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott opinion.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman's last proposed city budget could put a crimp in his political ambitions.

Four companies submitted bids for major construction work on the 14-mile light rail line between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian says a knowledge of history "tames" presidents, and is essential for successful leadership.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped into business leaders who resigned from his White House jobs panel.

The president's comments effectively wiped away the more conventional statement he delivered at the White House a day earlier when he branded members of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who take part in violence as "criminals and thugs."

The mayor is proposing swapping controversial "right of way" fees for a property tax increase.

Some may be left with no insurance options if President Trump makes good on his threat to stop "Obamacare" payments to insurers.

State workers represented by two big public employee unions have ratified new two-year contracts and are now waiting for legislators to take action.

The Rev. Bill Shillady said he has apologized to the Rev. Matt Deuel, and will credit the Indiana pastor in future editions of the book.

Instead of launching missiles into the water near Guam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will "watch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees," state media report.

A protest in Minneapolis blocks traffic as leaders of the state's biggest political parties argue about President Trump's role in promoting racial divisions,

The president's statement on Monday called out racist groups, including the KKK, for violence in Charlottesville, Va. He reversed that position on Tuesday, blaming "both sides."

An expert weighs in on the tense situation.