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As costs rise, number of Minnesotans losing heat, electricity spikes
The Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota, a nonprofit that advocates for utility customers, tracks reported shutoffs. It found utilities disconnected more than 85,000 residential households from either gas or electric services from January through October.
Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use
The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Matt Gaetz took part in while representing Florida's western panhandle. The findings conclude that he violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners
Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Joe Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place during President-elect Donald Trump's first term.
Twenty years after first proposed, NewRange still vying to build Minnesota’s first copper mine
Nearly 20 years after it was first proposed to state and federal regulators, the project formerly known as PolyMet Mining — now NewRange Copper Nickel — soldiers on, despite environmental groups’ contention that the project in its current form is dead.
Review by Senate Democrats finds more unreported luxury trips by Clarence Thomas
A report by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee found additional travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported on his annual financial disclosure, including trips on private jets and a yacht trip.
Flood gates are dropped from a plan to protect the Jersey Shore’s back bays from catastrophic storms
Huge gates at the mouths of three inlets and barriers across bays are no longer part of a plan to protect New Jersey’s back bays from the type of catastrophic flooding they endured during Superstorm Sandy.
Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden, averting a shutdown
The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown. It now goes to President Joe Biden, who is expected to quickly sign it into law.