WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday of the National Park Service’s authority to prevent an Alaskan moose hunter from using his motorized rubber ...
Read More »Florida passes amendment to restore felons’ voting rights
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida added 1.4 million possible voters to the rolls when it passed Amendment 4, which said most felons will automatically have ...
Read More »Tina Smith to finish Franken’s term
Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, who was appointed to take former Sen. Al Franken’s seat after he resigned, won Tuesday’s special election to finish the final ...
Read More »Tim Walz elected Minnesota governor
Democratic Rep. Tim Walz won Tuesday’s open election for Minnesota governor, defeating second-time Republican candidate Jeff Johnson to extend Democrats’ hold on the state’s top ...
Read More »Democrats take back state House, Republicans keep Senate
Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt has conceded that Democrats will take back control of the chamber, while Republicans won a high-stakes special election to keep ...
Read More »Ellison elected Minnesota attorney general
Ellison survived an ex-girlfriend's accusation of domestic abuse.
Read More »Arkansas court strikes mental competency law for executions
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that gives the state’s prison director authority to determine whether an ...
Read More »North Dakota Native American voters getting free IDs
BISMARCK, N.D. — Efforts by American Indian tribes in North Dakota to provide free identification to thousands of members in advance of Tuesday’s election are ...
Read More »Pakistan frees Christian woman facing death for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday acquitted a Christian woman who was sentenced to death under the country’s controversial blasphemy law, a landmark ruling ...
Read More »‘Lady Chatterley’ copy from famous trial sells for $72,000
LONDON — A paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” used by the judge in the landmark U.K. obscenity trial of the novel’s publisher has sold ...
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