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Dec 07 2017
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Franken to deliver Senate floor speech amid new claims of sexual misconduct, backlash from Dems
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken is planning to deliver a speech from the Senate floor shortly before noon on Thursday, amid speculation over whether he will accept mounting calls from female colleagues to resign over sexual misconduct accusations.
Fox News (Online News)Apr 20 2021
Headline Roundup
Former Vice President Walter Mondale Dies at 93
Walter Mondale, the former vice president under President Jimmy Carter, died Monday at the age of 93. He served as U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976, and in 1984, he became the first presidential candidate to select a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, to be his running mate.
Mondale lost in a landslide defeat to President Ronald Reagan that year, but he remained a revered liberal
Associated Press Fact Check The Hill Washington ExaminerMay 27 2020
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Protesters clash with Minneapolis police after George Floyd’s death
Chaos broke out on Tuesday night in Minneapolis as protesters took to the streets to demand action after the death of George Floyd, a Minnesota man who died in police custody a day earlier.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades on some protesters, reports said. The protest started peacefully, but the situation deteriorated and some demonstrators were seen breaking
Fox News (Online News)Sep 17 2020
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Wisconsin and Michigan
As of Wednesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 6.7 percentage points in Wisconsin and 4.2 percentage points in Michigan. (RealClearPolitics)
Many on both sides agree that Trump’s polling in the Midwest is disappointing:
“Biden’s 6.7-point lead is almost identical to Hillary Clinton’s 6.5-point lead over Trump in the final RCP average of
The Flip SideDec 11 2019
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Trump impeachment no slam dunk for moderate Democrats
Impeaching President Trump will be an easy "yes" vote for many liberal Democrats. But vulnerable moderates face the difficult choice: oppose voters in their districts, or their own caucus.
“I’m leaning no,” Rep. Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat, told the Washington Examiner. “I want to look at everything.”
Several Democrats from swing districts interviewed by the Washington
Washington ExaminerDec 03 2016
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Dean's drop-out reshapes DNC chair fight
Keith Ellison came to Colorado seeking to cement his position as the front-runner for Democratic National Committee chairman. But the Minnesota congressman ended the week in worse shape than when it started.
PoliticoJul 23 2021
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Can Pelosi’s power play on Capitol attack panel thwart wrecking tactics?
Speaker is locked in a battle of wills with Kevin McCarthy who is determined to change the political conversation, critics say
It was, Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday, one of the darkest days in America’s history – an assault on democracy, Congress and the constitution. “The American people want to know the truth,” she said.
But will the truth of the 6 January
The GuardianApr 05 2021
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Generation Unemployed: Another Class Of Graduates Face Pandemic-Scarred Future
The job market is starting to roar back, but for anxious college seniors like Bao Ha, it's a different reality altogether.
"I've probably applied to like 130 or 40 jobs or something," Ha says. "I have not gotten even an email back, or an interview."
Ha is graduating soon from Macalaster College in Minnesota, and between his anthropology thesis and trying to check items off his
NPR (Online News)Oct 07 2020
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COVID-19 cases rising in 39 states – 9 months into the pandemic: 'We are overwhelmed'
U.S. coronavirus cases surpassed 7.5 million on Wednesday with most states seeing a rise in cases – nine months into the pandemic – and a startling nine states setting ominous, seven-day records for infections.
A USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data through late Tuesday shows Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming all set state records
USA TODAYAug 14 2020
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Killing of George Floyd
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit bill.[1] Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on Floyd's neck for almost eight minutes[note 1] while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down, begging for his life and repeatedly saying "I can't breathe".[4][5] Officers J. Alexander
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