A Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that despite hardships, a vast majority of transgender adult respondents said they were happier than before they transitioned.
The proposed regulations come after demand for travel nurses, who work temporary assignments at different facilities, surged to unprecedented levels during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Black farmers made up only 1.4% of the nation’s 3.4 million producers, according to the 2017 Census for Agriculture, the latest federal dataset on American farmland demographics.
Sent just hours after Fox News called the election for Joe Biden, Minnesotan Marlene Bourne’s wild email falsely claimed “a piece of software” was inserted into Dominion voting machines that would change votes for Donald Trump to Biden.
The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a proposed rule that would allow the makers of beverages made from soybeans, almonds, oats and other plants to continue to label their products milk, as long as the non-dairy products employ qualifiers such as “soy milk” or “almond milk.”
About 50 public officials, labor leaders and nonprofit executives from the state were in Washington, D.C., this week to thank the Biden administration for funneling federal dollars to their priorities.
The Pentagon provides Minnesota with the most federal contracts, totaling $10 billion last year.
Minnesota’s members of Congress and their staffers took more than two dozen trips last year to places as diverse as Fargo, N.D., Spain and Tel Aviv, Israel. Those trips were valued at more than $63,000.
Democrats said GOP members targeted Omar because former Speaker Nancy Pelosi successfully stripped Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar of their committee jobs.
The calls for reform were fueled by a number of incidents, including revelations that several senators made fortuitous trades before the American people were fully aware of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic that was about to upend economies around the world.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made good on promises to oust two California Democrats from an intelligence committee but would need a full vote of the U.S. House to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The debt increased dramatically recently due to the Trump and Biden administrations’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis, which resulted in unprecedented federal spending to try to keep the U.S. economy afloat.
Permanent federal protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is likely now out of reach and the new GOP House of Representatives will try to ease federal rules for the mine permitting process.
Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen’s story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast.
Chicago has experienced more frequent and severe storms in recent decades, putting immigrants and low income Chicagoans living in basement units at increased risk of flooding.
Emmer’s new leadership office on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol was ground zero for the efforts to quell GOP rebellion.
Without a speaker, there are no rules governing the day-to-day operations of the 434 House lawmakers and their staffs, and those lawmakers cannot be sworn in to the 118th Congress.
Attempts to vote Rep. Kevin McCarthy speaker failed three times when 19 Republican hardliners voted for other GOP candidates in the first two roll calls and 20 voted against him in the third roll call.
House Republicans are also expected to pass a number of “messaging” bills. Minnesota’s Democratic House members have the opportunity to flex their muscles as lawmakers in opposition.
Each state has its own laws governing the investigation of violent and unexplained deaths, and most delegate the task to cities, counties, and regional districts.
