Politics

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has downplayed talk that her presidential run hinges on Iowa. But there's no doubt that without a strong showing there, it'll be hard to gain the money and momentum needed to win the Democratic nomination.

Walz plan isn't as simple as a MinnesotaCare buy-in. It isn't a single-payer plan. And it wouldn't start right away.

A Minnesota lawmaker wants tougher penalties for falsely reporting hate crimes in his state after an actor in Chicago was accused of doing so.

A Thursday roundup of some Minnesota political news.

The wall along the U.S.-Mexico border cuts across sensitive desert and mountainous terrain. But environmental regulations are waived for wall construction, raising concerns about long-term damage.

The conclusion of the APM Reports documentary series, "Order 9066."

Gov. Tim Walz's first budget contains lots of things that leaders from outside the Twin Cities area have been seeking -- more money for schools, local governments, highways and rural broadband to name just a few.

President Trump's former lawyer is scheduled to appear Feb. 27 before the House oversight committee. Members of Congress are expected to ask him about hush money payments ahead of Election Day 2016.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a GOP income tax cut bill Wednesday in an early showdown with legislative Republicans who had moved to weaken the Democrat's powers just weeks before he took office.

House Democrats will file a resolution Friday aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that President Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and the Constitution's separation of powers.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion and announced it on just her second day back at court after surgery for lung cancer late last year.

Gov. Tim Walz's budget proposal mostly maintains environmental programs, but there are some changes, such as a tax credit for farmers who install buffers along waterways and new spending on strategies to reduce food waste.

In 1939, an event at Madison Square Garden was billed as a "Pro-America Rally." It was, in fact, a rally in support of Hitler and fascism.

A Minnesota Senate committee is considering a big fee increase for electric vehicles and a new fee for hybrid vehicles.

Analysts weigh the possible offers North Korea's leader could make later this month in Vietnam.

On Tuesday, DFL Gov. Tim Walz released his state budget proposal for the coming two years, and Republicans immediately voiced objections. In a tweet Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa, called the plan, "One Expensive Minnesota" — a play on the governor's campaign pledge of "One Minnesota."

Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding lakes and streams without being treated, The Associated Press has found.

A roundup of the day's top stories from politics and government.

Republican legislators say tax increases proposed by Gov. Tim Walz will not become law.

The new governor's budget proposal sets education as his first priority.