Politics

A letter dated Friday cited the "false equivalence" of President Donald Trump's comments about last weekend's "Unite the Right" gathering in Charlottesville.

The Legislative auditor has found no evidence at the Department of Commerce of illegal data destruction, which was alleged by a former employee.

The man who salvaged Donald Trump's campaign but struggled once he reached the West Wing is out as the president's chief strategist.

With prominent Republicans openly questioning his competence and moral leadership, President Trump burrowed deeper into the racially charged debate over Confederate memorials and lashed out at members of his own party in the latest controversy to engulf his presidency.

Minneapolis poised to put a fee on shoppers' bags.

"You can't change history, but you can learn from it," he tweeted. "Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson -- who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish."

Shortly after the 3M CEO drops off a presidential council, the president disbands it.

"Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us," President Trump's chief strategist says.

CEOs had been tendering their resignations from White House panels after the president lay blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally on "both sides."

Expectations are high for special counsel Robert Mueller with Trump critics. But people depending on the former FBI director to shake up the White House could be in for a letdown.

In the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists, Donald Trump's loyal base is happy to absolve the president himself.

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.