Texas Democrats showed up Monday for a special session but left open the possibility of walking out as a means to derail an unusual summer redrawing of U.S. House maps that would help protect ...

President Donald Trump's tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes ...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pandered in 2020 to the very anti-police activists and officials who want to throw him aside now.

Omar Fateh was endorsed by a vote of hands Saturday after Mayor Jacob Frey reportedly instructed his delegates to leave the ...

Saying the election should be "decided by our entire city" and "not by a handful of delegates," Mayor Frey is pushing forward ...

Omar Fateh, running on promises to make Minneapolis more affordable by raising minimum wage and implementing rent control, ...

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The Minneapolis DFL on Saturday endorsed state Sen. Omar Fateh to be the next mayor of the state's largest city.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) is planning to file an appeal after he lost the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s (DFL) endorsement to a democratic socialist challenger in a process ...

The attorneys for state Sen. Nicole Mitchell said she will resign her seat within two weeks, which will allow Gov. Tim Walz to call a special election to ...

The planned resignation of State Senator Nicole Mitchell was announced on the same day that a Republican senator died.