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The Senate voted Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which allege he mismanaged an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Both votes were along party lines. The impeachment trial came to a close a little more than three hours after it started, following a GOP senator's move to quickly quash an offer for limited debate and the creation of an impeachment committee, marking a rapid close to the first impeachment of a...
Indonesia's Mount Ruang has erupted at least three times this week, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. On Wednesday evening local time, the volcano's eruption shot ash nearly 70,000 feet high, possibly spewing aerosols into the stratosphere, the atmosphere's second layer. The volcano is part of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, in the Sangihe Islands archipelago. That puts it about 60 miles north-northeast of Manado, the province's capital. Indonesia's National Disaster Management...
House Speaker Mike Johnson is plowing ahead on a foreign aid plan that has roiled his conference and prompted two Republicans to push an effort to oust him from the chamber's top job. But instead of the complex four-part plan he floated this week, Johnson now intends to try to pass five bills - one each for aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Indo-Pacific allies, as well as a GOP wish list of foreign policy priorities and a fifth stand-alone bill to address widespread Republican demands to strengthen...
The Biden administration will reimpose oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela after President Nicolás Maduro failed to comply with a U.S.-backed agreement to allow opposition candidates and parties to run in July elections, the State Department said in a statement Wednesday. A six-month general license, issued in October as part of a deal between Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition signed in October, is scheduled to expire at midnight Wednesday and will not be renewed, the officials said. The...
BRASÍLIA - The woman arrives at the bank pushing a man in a wheelchair. His eyes are closed; his head lolls wildly. "Uncle Paulo, are you listening?" Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes asks. "You need to sign it. If you don't sign it, there's no way. I can't sign it for you." But Paulo Roberto Braga doesn't respond, a video recorded Tuesday shows. The 68-year-old man is dead. In an incident that has gone viral here, police say Nunes, 42, took Braga's body to a bank branch in Rio de Janeiro on T...
Search crews on Wednesday recovered the body of a missing 15-year-old boy who jumped into a southwest Minnesota lake two days earlier after losing a canoe paddle. The searchers located the body around 11:30 a.m. in Eagle Lake, the Cottonwood County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday in a news release. The boy had been canoeing with a family member about 10 miles northeast of Windom on Eagle Lake early Monday evening when he jumped in to retrieve his paddle, the Sheriff's Office said. He attempted to swim back to the canoe, but wind pushed it...
One of Minnesota's smallest hospitals is eliminating inpatient care and converting to a rural emergency center, a move designed to keep its doors open amid financial struggles. Mahnomen Health Center notified the state earlier this month of plans to close the hospital's inpatient unit and only operate an emergency room to stabilize and observe patients. "It was a way to assure health care into the future for our community," said Dale Kruger, the hospital's administrator. http...
A 1-year-old boy who fell out a hotel window in Sioux Falls has died, according to his father. Madden Hein was hospitalized for treatment of critical injuries and died Monday, two days after falling from the third floor at the Club House Hotel & Suites, according to his father. "It is with heavy hearts to say that our sweet baby boy Madden gained his angel wings late on April 15th," read a posting on social media from parents Kathryn and Alex Hein of Lakefield in southwestern Minnesota. "Madden...
NEW YORK - Donald Trump's legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president's criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for the former president's lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information and documents related to a documentary recently released about her life and involvement with Trump,...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., personally courted Micron to build what would ultimately be a set of four chip factories near Syracuse in the town of Clay. He noted in a Wednesday interview that the announcement was a sign to voters about how Democrats were reviving the manufacturing sector. ''It will be the biggest memory chip plant i...
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The deal has not been finalized and no money has been paid, the source said on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak before a formal announcement. An internal investigation found that FBI agents...
Copper wire thieves have broken air conditioning units, crippled vehicle-charging stations and dimmed thousands of street lights across St. Paul in recent years. Such thefts cost the city $1.2 million to repair in 2023, and officials say the issue continues to endanger public safety. That's why Gov. Tim Walz joined city leaders Wednesday to publicly back a bill aiming to curb copper wire thefts across Minnesota. Walz met St. Paul officials at Como Park to discuss the bill, leaning near one of...
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran's major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies. Israel has vowed to respond to Iran's unprecedented attack without saying when or how, leaving the region bracing for further escalation after months of unrest linked to the ongoing war in Gaza. Israel's allies have been urging Israel since the attack to hold back...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. Security officers completed a door-to-door sweep but did not locate a source of the sound, the base said in a social media post. No injuries were reported. The base said in an earlier post that security at the base received the report of a single gunshot near the medical clinic and base exchange around 1 p.m. The lockdown was...
BEMIDJI - Construction on the new Beltrami County jail could begin as soon as next spring, with the county board approving the project's timeline during its meeting on Tuesday. Alongside receiving a report on the design progress, including viewing 3D models of the exterior and interior of the jail, the county board was tasked with selecting between two options on when to start construction. Option 1 would have started construction this fall, but working through the winter would create...
BEMIDJI — The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is seeking funding proposals for its PROMISE Act grants to provide financial support to small businesses and nonprofit organizations in northwest Minnesota to invest in existing operations or planned growth. The PROMISE (Providing Resources and Opportunity and Maximizing Investments in Striving Entrepreneurs) Act program was created and funded by the Minnesota Legislature to drive fair economic recovery by boosting small, rural and minority-owned businesses, which face the largest barriers to a...
DETROIT LAKES - A bill that would turn state lands in the White Earth State Forest over to ownership of the White Earth Nation is essentially dead in the Minnesota Senate this session, "barring some strange happening in a conference committee bill," State Sen. Rob Kupec said in an interview. The White Earth Forest bill would have gone through the Environmental, Climate and Legacy Committee, and the environmental omnibus bill from that committee had to be approved by Friday, April 12, Kupec...
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will hold a public hearing on April 30 at 6 p.m. on Mahnomen Health Center’s transition to a Rural Emergency Hospital. Rural Emergency Hospitals do not have inpatient services or swing beds. According to the submission filed by Mahnomen Health Center, Mahnomen Health Center will continue to provide outpatient services and emergency services to the community. The hearing will be hosted by MDH’s Health Regulation Division to provide a forum for the community to discuss the change and available alt...
MINNEAPOLIS – A St. Paul felon has been sentenced to 74 months in prison for illegally possessing ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on August 28, 2022, Bloomington police officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Damien Kent Hallmon, 40, for multiple traffic violations and noticed several indicators of marijuana use. The occupants of the vehicle were asked to step out of the vehicle so it could be s...
Bemidji, Minn. -The Beltrami Electric Cooperative Trust Board for Operation Round Up® met in April and awarded grants to 26 area nonprofit and community organizations totaling $41,272. Many local programs and non-profit organizations benefit from Operation Round Up®, a charitable program unique to electric cooperatives. The program is designed to give cooperative members a means of working together to use their small change to make a big impact in their local communities, with 100% of...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on June 18, 2023, Minneapolis police officers responded to a shot spotter activation. At the scene they contacted a male victim "K.H.," who stated that Ramone Trayvil Johnson, 30, attempted to rob him inside of Johnson's vehicle. K.H. stated that he had owed J...
April 17, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) — Attorney General Ellison announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation to review and resolve consumer complaints against airlines and ticket agents. The agreement streamlines how the Attorney General and DOT will work together to review consumer complaints and identify violations of federal aviation consumer protection requirements. The new process for addressing consumer complaints against air travel companies, outlined in a memorandum of understanding between the Minnesota Attorney G...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The family of Ricky Cobb II, the 33-year-old Black man shot and killed by Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan during a routine traffic stop, joined their attorneys today to announce a federal lawsuit against Londregan and fellow State Trooper Brett Seide. Londregan has been charged with 2nd Degree Murder, 2nd Degree Manslaughter and 1st Degree Assault by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. Cobb’s family is represented by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers and Harry Daniels as well as F. Clayton Tyl...
The Red Lake Band held an Informational Session on Legislative Bills and Congregate Shelter on Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Red Lake Casino Event Center. Congregate Shelter Project This project was conceptualized from the series Zhawenimin summit meetings held in 2023 in response to the Opioid and Fentanyl crisis our community is facing, along with homelessness issues. Purpose: To address the current challenges posed by the opioid crisis and homelessness within the Red Lake Nation by offering a...
The Red Lake Lady Warriors Softball team opened their 2024 season with a loss to Bagley on Monday, April 15, 2024....
