A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

The committee, made up of all the council members, voted 8-5 to delay a decision on the licenses for Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel until the next ...Read more

During a Tuesday visit to a California High-Speed Rail facility, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the train’s investment in the Central Valley and said the Trump administration gave the region “the middle finger” when it decided to pull $4 billion of the project’s federal money last year.

The governor described President Donald Trump as “...Read more

South Carolina’s environmental agency has known for years state that oversight of rivers is so weak that industrial-scale farms can suck rivers dry, but the department has done little to protect waterways from overuse because of political pressure, the department’s former water division chief says.

Mike Marcus, who retired as director of ...Read more

A spotted gray wolf has left his California pack and trotted across Silver State lines, wildlife biologists say.

Nevada Department of Wildlife spokeswoman Ashley Zeme said the wolf is in the north end of the Carson Range near Carson City. The wolf crossed into Nevada on Monday after heading east from Truckee, California, on the north end of ...Read more

A standoff between the White House and Iraqi politicians over who should be the Middle Eastern country’s next prime minister is worsening, according to several people, with the rift threatening to destabilize the OPEC member.

In recent days, Washington told Iraqi officials it would reduce the country’s access to oil-export revenues if it ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has opened an internal investigation after a video captured deputies tackling and arresting protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building last weekend.

Videos obtained by The Minnesota Star Tribune show a group of deputies walking by protesters who were standing on a sidewalk near the ...Read more

School districts across Florida have heard rumblings lately about student plans to walk out of classes to protest federal immigration enforcement actions, such as the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Some walkouts have already taken place, including in Escambia and Leon counties, while others are being discussed for the coming days, ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — After a pair of anti-ICE snow sculptures were partially or completely destroyed in two separate competitions this month, the sculptors behind both pieces have reprised their original works in a combined sculpture in Minneapolis.

In late January, Team USA’s sculpture for the World Snow Sculpting Championship in downtown ...Read more

President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”

Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler.

But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice — mostly — at a closed-door meeting at the White House that both ...Read more

Florida auditors who crossed the state looking to expose fraud and waste in government spending recently issued a report on their findings. But local government officials say that they failed to identify any examples of egregious waste.

The state’s Department of Governmental Efficiency started scrutinizing various county and city governments ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz denounced how Operation Metro Surge is treating Minnesota’s children on Tuesday, Feb. 3, and sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, demanding her agency stop tactics that put kids at risk.

“These are the people that our children should be around,” he said of education leaders by his side...Read more

NEW YORK — The Jeffrey Epstein files will remain online after victims of the disgraced financier on Tuesday said the Justice Department had committed to “expeditiously” scrubbing their identities from a tranche of case files released to the public, creating what one woman called a “careless and dangerous” situation.

Lawyers for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

“We are negotiating with them right now” and “they’d like to do something,” Trump told reporters at the ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday unveiled a $53.2 billion state budget that focuses on making Pennsylvania a more affordable place to live — while proposing a 6.2% spending increase over last year and renewing his pitches to create new revenue streams to fill a significant budget deficit as he runs for reelection.

Shapiro’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As many Republicans in Congress push for action on a voter ID bill, its future remains uncertain — and key voices in the GOP say they are wary of increasing federal involvement in elections.

“I’m supportive of only citizens voting and showing ID at polling places. I think that makes sense … but I’m not in favor of ...Read more

A Michigan motorist accused of flipping off federal agents and cutting off a Border Patrol van has pleaded guilty to charges, according to court records.

Jacob Nathaniel Len, 30, of Ypsilanti, entered the plea last month in U.S. District Court in Detroit, court documents said.

The filings also said he was sentenced to six months of probation, ...Read more

A California doctor this week became the first physician to be sued under a new Texas law that allows private citizens to pursue civil legal action against anyone who provides abortion medication in Texas.

In the lawsuit, first filed in Texas federal court in July 2025, Jerry Rodriguez alleged that San Francisco Bay Area doctor Remy Coeytaux ...Read more