Politics and Government

Prime Minister Mark Rutte's center-right party is celebrating a resounding win over populist Wilders' Party for Freedom, in a result that's being welcomed by centrists and progressives.

Right now, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission handles complaints from electricity customers who get their power through an electric co-op.

President Trump wants to eliminate federal support of a program that addresses the Great Lakes' most pressing environmental threats.

Three conservative GOP lawmakers voted against the measure. That's one vote shy of what would have been needed to deal a damaging and embarrassing - but not fatal - setback to the party's showpiece legislation.

House speaker rejects pay raise on behalf of all 134 House members. The state Senate, however, is not following the House's lead.

President Trump has unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

President Trump's revised travel ban has suffered another federal court setback after a judge in Maryland rejected a revised measure that bans travel targeting six predominantly Muslim countries.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he had not given Trump any reason to believe he was wiretapped by Obama. Meanwhile, the chair of the House intelligence committee said he had seen no information to support the claim.

Military spending would get the biggest boost in President Trump's proposed budget. Environmental programs, medical research, Amtrak and an array of international and cultural programs would take big hits.

After pressure from the U.S. Justice Department, the siting of a Muslim cemetery may go forward in rural Chisago County. The county commissioners voted in December to deny the project.