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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The latest polling shows Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar leading Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth for Minnesota’s gubernatorial race.
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Reporting from Just the News
October surprises galore: Scrutiny and allegations about past associations and legal probes dominate the final week before midterms for some candidates.
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Reporting from Just the News
Fine emphasized that a lawmaker has to be an American citizen in order to serve in either chamber, meaning Omar would need to be removed from her post if convicted of immigration fraud.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison on the campaign trail over the weekend in Duluth.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — The founder of a government-funded nonprofit that patrols crime-ridden areas of Minneapolis had his salary nearly triple to $246,000, and the city program that pays his organization was found to lack proper financial oversight, an investigation by The Center Square found.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump is calling on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign amid the ongoing federal investigation into the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With less than two weeks until Election Day, the Minnesota U.S. Senate race has shifted in favor of Republican and former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Fraud is costing taxpayers more than four times the value of the fraudulent benefits themselves, according to a new study.
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Reporting from Just the News
Omar has been the focus of a federal investigation that centers on allegations that Omar or her father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork to obtain her citizenship when her family fled Somalia in the late 1990s.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Minnesota ranked 15th nationally in Truth in Accounting’s 2026 “Financial State of the States” report.
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