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Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America

Lennon Tyler and her German fiancé often took road trips to Mexico when he vacationed in the United States since it was only a day's drive from her home in Las Vegas, one of the perks of their long-distance relationship.
March 21, 2025

Why Justin Eichorn is facing a harsher potential sentence than 8 others charged in sex sting

The ex-state senator is charged in federal court, where the potential sentence is 10 years in prison. Other men arrested in the same operation are likely to get probation in state court.
March 21, 2025

Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election

A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to ''activist judges,'' a move that comes two weeks before the state's Supreme Court election and after the political action committee made a similar proposal last year in battleground states.
March 21, 2025

Trump acknowledges concerns over Musk's business interests and says he shouldn't get war plans

President Donald Trump said Friday that war plans should not be shared with his adviser Elon Musk because of his business interests, a rare suggestion that the billionaire entrepreneur's expansive role in the administration will face limits.
March 21, 2025

Gov. Tim Walz proposes additional spending cuts in revised budget plan

The updated two-year plan also adds one-time spending for law enforcement training and to respond to bird flu.
March 21, 2025

‘Incredibly inequitable’: Schools surrounding Minnesota’s cabin country homes struggle as taxes go to state

A long-ago shift of a portion of seasonal home property taxes away from schools is messing with communities, says Sen. Grant Hauschild, who has introduced legislation to replace a portion of the taxes.
March 21, 2025

Trump has ordered the dismantling of the Education Department. Here's what it does

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.
March 21, 2025

67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump's plan to give them refugee status

The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday it received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump's plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government.
March 21, 2025

DOGE blocked in court from Social Security systems with Americans' personal information, for now

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, calling their work there a ''fishing expedition.''
March 20, 2025

Ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn ordered to halfway house before next hearing on underage prostitution charge

The husband and father of 4 from Grand Rapids is charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
March 20, 2025

Taliban frees an American man who was abducted while traveling in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration that Qatari negotiators helped broker, the State Department said Thursday.
March 20, 2025

GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn resigns, makes first court appearance on underage prostitution charge

Upon his resignation from the Senate, Eichorn was also removed from his role as chair of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.
March 20, 2025
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