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  • Border security deadlock heightens risk of government shutdown

    Mar 18, 2024

    A dispute over border security funding threatens to force a shutdown of vast swaths of the federal government in less than a week, as Congress and the White House struggled Sunday to reach a deal on long-term spending legislation. Funding for roughly 70 percent of the federal government - including the departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security as well as the IRS and Transportation Security Administration - will at 12:01 a.m. Saturday unless Congress acts before then. A prolonged...

  • Russian voters, answering Navalny's call, protest as Putin extends his rule

    Mar 18, 2024

    MOSCOW - On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin's authoritarian hold on power by forming long lines to vote against him at noon Sunday - answering the call of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and undercutting preliminary results Sunday night that led Putin to claim a landslide victory. Russia's Central Election Commission, which routinely bars any real challengers from running, reported late Sunday that Putin had...

  • Biden continues fundraising momentum with a $53 million February

    Mar 18, 2024

    President Biden notched record fundraising receipts in February with donations from nearly half a million people, overcoming poor polling to end the month with $155 million in the bank. The strong results bolstered the Biden campaign's argument that grass-roots energy will swell as the November election approaches and voters come to terms with the choice between Biden and Donald Trump. Biden and Trump - who both became their party's presumptive nominees last week - are locked in a rematch of...

  • Biden needles Trump on age, mental fitness, finances at D.C. dinner

    Mar 18, 2024

    After sitting through hours of jokes about his age at Saturday's Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner, President Biden turned the tables on the journalists putting on the skits. "The big news this week is, two candidates clinched their parties' nomination for president. One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president," Biden said. "The other is me." Of all the president's jokes, that one landed best here at the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt downtown. It's the annual...

  • Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time

    Mar 14, 2024

    The presidential race is official, with President Biden and former president Donald Trump clinching their parties' nominations Tuesday. But this year, Democrats are clear: They do not want a rerun of 2016, when third-party candidates got millions of votes, leading many political observers to say even today that those votes helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. This time, Democrats are prepared. The Biden campaign and the political apparatus hoping to defeat Trump are taking third-party...

  • Union to spend $200 million to get working-class voters to back Biden, Democrats

    Mar 14, 2024

    The Service Employees International Union, which represents about 2 million health-care, property service and government workers, plans to spend $200 million to boost President Biden and Democrats in electoral battlegrounds across the country this year, officials at the group told The Washington Post. The union is making its largest investment ever - after spending roughly $150 million in the 2020 presidential cycle - as it aims to reach 6 million voters of color and, more broadly, turn out...

  • RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS MAY 15, 2024 GENERAL ELECTION, DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE CERTIFIED CANDIDATES LIST

    Mar 13, 2024

    RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS MAY 15, 2024 GENERAL ELECTION DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE CERTIFIED CANDIDATES LIST...

  • Hur said Biden couldn't recall when his son died. The interview transcript is more complicated

    Mar 13, 2024

    WASHINGTON ? The White House knew it had a political problem on its hands when a special counsel report questioned President Joe Biden's memory last month, but Biden saw a much more personal affront as well. Robert Hur, who had been appointed to investigate whether Biden mishandled classified documents, wrote that the president couldn't recall in an interview with prosecutors the date when his adult son, Beau, died of cancer. It was a shocking contention about a keystone event in Biden's life,...

  • Should Minnesota legislators still be allowed to vote remotely on bills? Senators debate issue

    Mar 13, 2024

    The Democratic leader of the Minnesota Senate lashed out at Republican members this week for trying to end the practice of remote voting while a DFL senator is undergoing cancer treatment. GOP state Sen. Steve Drazkowski proposed a motion to eliminate remote and proxy voting during a rules committee meeting last week. Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, legislators are still allowed to cast votes remotely under certain circumstances. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy,...

  • Senator Elizabeth Warren Sponsors New Bill for Expanding Rural Tribal Housing Resource

    Mar 13, 2024

    Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has announced new legislation aimed at funneling more money into Indian Country housing and other services through the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service programs. Under the Tribal Rural Housing Access Act, the USDA would be required to set aside 5 percent of its funding under certain Rural Housing Service programs for use by tribes, tribally designated housing entities, tribal members, and tribal-owned entities. The legislation proposes...

  • White House-Justice Dept. tensions high as Hur prepares to testify on Hill

    Mar 12, 2024

    When Robert K. Hur testifies to Congress on Tuesday about his investigation of President Biden's handling of classified documents, he is expected to defend a special counsel process created to shield fraught cases from political interference. But Hur's testimony will also highlight how Attorney General Merrick Garland's use of special counsels to handle the most politically sensitive cases has calcified tensions between the White House and the Justice Department. It will be the first time Hur...

  • From left, President Biden, Robert Hur and Attorney General Merrick Garland. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post; Steve Ruark/AP; Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

    Mar 12, 2024

    The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee - handpicked by former president Donald Trump - started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly. About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes. One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and...

  • Minnesotans could be spending thousands each year on 'junk fees.' Some lawmakers want to ban them.

    Mar 12, 2024

    These hidden fees pop up at the end of a transaction, right at the moment a consumer is about to purchase a product. "Think about the last time you went out for dinner, or ordered online and saw a convenience fee, a service fee, a wellness fee that you weren't quite sure what that was for," said Rep. Emma Greenman, DFL-Minneapolis. She's carrying a bill this year to rein in the proliferation of businesses adding so-called hidden "junk fees" at the end of purchases, which have driven up the...

  • Biden's budget proposal for a second term offers tax breaks for families and lower health care costs

    Mar 12, 2024

    MANCHESTER, N.H. ? President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters' attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election year blueprint about what the future could hold if Biden and enough of his fellow Democrats win in November. The president and his aides previewed parts of...

  • Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline

    Mar 11, 2024

    WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. The measure contains six annual spending bills and had already passed the House. In signing it into law, Biden thanked leaders and negotiators from both parties in both chambers for their work,...

  • The child tax credit debate is a preview of next year's big tax fights

    Mar 11, 2024

    President Biden in his State of the Union address Thursday laid out broad new policy goals for a second term, with aims to use tax hikes on major corporations and the wealthy to make new investments in child care and eldercare, affordable housing and education. The speech, and the debates over policy over the course of the 2024 election, signal the start of a massive struggle facing Congress and the White House next year, as trillions of dollars in tax cuts pushed in 2017 by President Donald...

  • Funding Package Breakdown for Funds Appropriated for Indian Country

    Mar 11, 2024

    On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed into law a six-bill funding package that will fund programs for the current year's federal budget. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. "This bipartisan bill delivers essential funding to help keep our promises to Tribes and to support Tribal communities and families-including by continuing to provide advance appropriations so the Indian Health Service can serve patients with certainty." Sen. Murray said in a statement....

  • Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone

    Mar 8, 2024

    President Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address Thursday night, making a forceful case for a second term while attacking former president Donald Trump as a threat to individual rights, freedom and democracy. Biden engaged in repeated exchanges with Republican lawmakers in the House chamber, at times, turning the address into a form of political theater as he seemingly taunted his opponents in an attempt to spotlight policy disagreements on the economy, immigration and abortion....

  • Why women are wearing white at the State of the Union

    Mar 8, 2024

    As political leaders and guests shuffled into the U.S. Capitol for President Biden's high-stakes State of the Union address Thursday night, overhead views of the chamber revealed a sea of white. Several Democratic congresswomen donned the color in what they said was a statement about reproductive rights. The show of unity comes at a time when abortion access has been restricted across the country in the fallout of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, and after a Alabama Supreme Court decision...

  • Social equity applicants could get 'head start' in Minnesota's marijuana market

    Mar 8, 2024

    Minnesota regulators are pushing a bill that would give aspiring cannabis business owners who meet social equity criteria a head start in the state's recreational marijuana market. Leaders of the state's Office of Cannabis Management at a news conference Thursday called for several changes to Minnesota's marijuana law, including one that would grant temporary business licenses as early as July to social equity applicants ahead of the anticipated 2025 market launch. Social equity applicants...

  • READ President Biden's State of the Union Address

    Mar 8, 2024

    On Thursday night, the White House released the prepared remarks for President Joe Biden's third State of the Union address. Biden used his speech that lasted just over an hour to make comparisons to his predecessor 13 times. The president talked about the threat to democracy, specifically the January 6 attack on the nation's Capitol. Biden mentioned Native Americans as he talked about the immigration issue. "We are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new....

  • Lessons from Indigenous women who lead their nations

    Mar 8, 2024

    There are so many "firsts" in our generation that sometimes they fly by without notice. Let's change that for this International Women's Day and note that there are now five Indigenous women who serve as heads of state, including the president of the most populous nation on the planet. Here are the five women who are the personal representatives of sovereignty. Droupadi Murmu is the president of India – the largest country in the world with 1.43 billion citizens. Her official biography says...

  • The Biden-Trump rematch feared by many voters has now arrived

    Mar 7, 2024

    President Biden's campaign aides have long said that once the presidential race becomes a clear contrast between two choices, their electoral prospects would brighten as voters come face to face with the stark prospect of Donald Trump's return to the White House. With the Super Tuesday contests completed and Trump's last major GOP rival, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, suspending her campaign, Biden's allies now have their chance - and eight months of political combat - to prove their...

  • Supreme Court sets Trump immunity claim in D.C. trial for April 25

    Mar 7, 2024

    The Supreme Court has scheduled argument for April 25 to review Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The case will be heard on the final day of the court's argument calendar and will determine whether and how quickly Trump faces trial in D.C. for allegedly trying to block Joe Biden's election victory. The high court's decision to consider Trump's claims, rather than letting stand a lower court...

  • For Trump and Minnesota Republicans, Nikki Haley's strength in the metro leaves big questions

    Mar 7, 2024

    Republican presidential primary voters showed a split between greater Minnesota and the metro with their votes Tuesday. Donald Trump is all but certain to become the Republican nominee, but in Minnesota, the places where former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had a strong showing during Tuesday's Republican primary show where Trump might run into trouble. Haley pitched herself squarely at suburban voters, independents and moderate Republicans turned off by Trump. She got over 97,000 votes -...

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