Month: September 2020

Shamus O’Grady is his own drummer and he follows his own beat. The St. Cloud State senior wrestler will jump into the Mississippi River off “Huskies’ O’Grady thrives on challenges”

Graduate students on over 50 campuses nationwide staged walkouts on Wednesday to protest provisions in the GOP tax proposal they say amount to an assault “#GradTaxWalkout: Students Nationwide Denounce Tax Proposal's Assault on Higher Ed”

In the wake of President Donald Trump directing a “sexually suggestive and demeaning” tweet at Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Tuesday morning, Sen. Elizabeth Warren “After Demeaning Attack on Senate Colleague, Warren Calls Out Trump For 'Slut-Shaming'”

The oil and gas industry is poised to save hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade thanks to a rollback of offshore drilling “In Bid to Save Big Oil $900M, Trump Moves to Scrap Offshore Drilling Safety Rules”

In a televised bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested that Congress should return to a system of earmarking legislation, a much-maligned “In Latest Betrayal of 'Drain the Swamp' Mantra, Trump Calls for Return of Pork Barrel Politics”

A scuffle broke out and lawmakers with Israel’s Arab coalition were forcibly removed by security officers on Monday after raising placards in protest during U.S. “'Dangerous Man With Messianic Vision': Scuffle, Lawmakers Ejected for Protesting During Pence Speech to Knesset”

While it has nothing to do with violating international law and the human rights of Palestinians, Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that the state indict Prime “While 'Not the Worst' of His Crimes, Israeli Police Call for Indicting Netanyahu on Corruption Charges”

A Democratic House candidate in Montana is launching a television ad bashing Sinclair broadcasting that will run on Sinclair-owned stations starting Monday. John Heenan, who “Montana Dem candidate to run anti-Sinclair ads on Sinclair stations”

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is mounting an eleventh-hour attack against ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship in the final days of the heated Senate GOP primary fight.  “Morrisey: Blankenship 'would get crushed' in November”

Both leading candidates to become Minnesota’s next governor failed to nab their party’s endorsement at conventions on Saturday, as party activists picked outsiders who hew “Favored governor candidates snubbed in Minnesota conventions”