Governor Janet Mills is delaying action on 61 bills, including measures to ban untraceable firearms and allow Wabanaki nations to offer online gambling. She has until January to act, potentially vetoing or allowing the bills to become law. Mills’ office testified against the online gambling bill, indicating a clear stance. Meanwhile, the IRS has filed a court case suggesting that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements without losing their tax-exempt status, arguing it aligns with the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and religion. The IRS’s stance challenges a 71-year-old tax policy that prohibited such endorsements.
Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement. Now, videos from another Minneapolis street showing the last moments of Renee Good's life are central to another debate about law enforcement in America.
As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.
The state of Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.
The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.
