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Enes Kanter is from Turkey, an American ally that has given a despot — Recep Tayyip Erdogan — free rein after a failed coup. Tens of thousands of political opponents and journalists have been jailed.
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In the race to alleviate the suffering of the largest taxpayers, politicians have pledged to protect the most vulnerable. It would have been political suicide to do otherwise. That is no longer the case; quite the opposite, actually.
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The National Press Club is filing an objection over what it says is the ‘manhandling’ of a reporter who tried to ask a question of a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Somewhere in Oregon, there is a young man being raised to be honest and take responsibility for his occasional wrongdoing. Read more →
Seidu Mohammed gave up a lot when he left Minneapolis, took a bus to Grand Forks, and walked to what he’d hoped would be the freedom he saw across the border in Canada on Christmas eve. Now, he’s been given permission to stay. Read more →
St. Paul skyways can be scary places at night and perhaps it’s time to consider closing them a little earlier.
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David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, has never been on the Donald Trump bandwagon. Nonetheless, the more conservative (for the Times) columnist’s essay today is a bit stunning if only for the headline one doesn’t usually read about a sitting president of the United States.
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President Donald Trump had an interesting idea for solving the problem of inaccuracies from his White House communications team: have them stop talking.
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In the list of people in Minnesota who are suffering, can anyone top the smoker of premium cigars?
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We can only imagine what the faculty of Bethune-Cookman University was thinking when they stood up as the booing began during Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ speech at commencement today.
But perhaps they were asking themselves if they failed over the last four years or succeeded?
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The move comes primarily on the recommendation of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who objected to the fact James Comey closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, according to his letter released today.
Obviously, this is a developing story, but it seems like an appropriate time for an open thread for your opinions and analysis. Read more →
As politicians try to pull the shades down on their business, a showdown may be brewing over the reach of the state’s open meeting law, which is intended to give citizens a good look at what their representatives are doing. Read more →
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air last night, defending last week’s plea for health care coverage, after his newborn son was able to get treatment for a heart problem.
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Sometimes the dramatic moment captured by news photographers isn’t really the actual moment. Read more →