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Early voting sets midterms record, breaking 2022 mark
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted…
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Trump administration has slow-walked 380K potential immigrant voters
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized…
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‘Medically frail’ Medicaid enrollees won’t have to prove their inability to work to keep coverage
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston…
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Trump officials travel to St. Cloud to announce arrests of allegedly fraudulent Medicaid providers
Top Trump administration officials announced the arrests of four Medicaid providers at St. Cloud’s police headquarters Friday, alleging they fraudulently billed for services. The announcement came a day after federal and state agents raided childcare centers and early autism…
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Judge orders Kenis Lopez Gonzalez to be freed, returned to U.S. from Central African Republic
A federal judge has ordered the federal government to immediately return Kenis Lopez Gonzalez to the U.S. from the Central African Republic, where he has been detained since August despite having no ties to the country. Lopez, who has no criminal record, arrived in the U.S. in…
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Commentary: A New Approach to Closing the Disability Wealth Gap
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of…
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Shakopee man from Nicaragua deported to Central African Republic
Kenis Lopez Gonzalez fled political persecution in Nicaragua in 2022 and turned himself in to immigration authorities upon arriving in the U.S. Two years later, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported back to Nicaragua because he was at risk of being tortured…
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Caretakers maintain Alex Pretti memorial despite repeated vandalism
More than nine months after immigration agents disarmed, shot and killed Alex Pretti in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, the site of his death on Nicollet Avenue is marked with carefully arranged flowers, candles, art and other offerings brought by visitors from near…
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Trump cancels weekend Kansas and Iowa rallies 5 days ahead of election
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late Thursday…
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Commentary: Mass deportation is diverting money that could be used for healthcare, other needs
We work quickly on our feet every day as parents to keep our children protected and healthy. So I’ll never forget the day I stood speechless in my kitchen, holding the letter declaring my daughter with Type 1 diabetes no longer had health insurance. My heart sank. I had no idea…
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Commentary: Anti-tax pledges — never a good idea
During a recent debate, both U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth ruled out raising taxes if elected governor. Demuth said, “Tax hikes are absolutely off the table for me,” while Klobuchar added, “I have made clear I’m not going to increase taxes, and I…
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Caring for aging parents is getting more expensive
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving,…
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Judge denies attempt by Trump’s DOJ to exclude 20,000 California ballots from vote count
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme…
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The cost of healthcare is hitting America where it hurts: The wallet
This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here with permission. Bill McAdams, a 45-year-old travel nurse from Holiday, Florida, was uninsured last year when he experienced a stroke. He hadn’t been able to afford his agency’s health plan, which would have…
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DHS targeting naturalized Americans in voter investigations, civil rights groups say
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as…
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Dolores Huerta, Chicana activist and defender of farmworker rights, dies at 96
This story was originally reported by The 19th. Dolores Huerta, who rose to national prominence as the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and was known for her advocacy for women farmworkers, died on Wednesday. She was 96. Huerta was born in New Mexico but…
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Right-wing influencer James O’Keefe charged with voter fraud after impersonating registered voters
Right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been charged by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for unlawful voting and identity theft after they pulled a dress-up stunt during the Aug. 11 statewide primary election, unsuccessfully trying to show that Minnesota’s…
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Immigration restrictions are hurting already struggling Minnesota colleges, universities
Gwamaka Mahenya knew studying in the United States would mean making sacrifices. The St. Olaf College junior applied to universities elsewhere, such as in the United Kingdom, and had been accepted to some. But coming to the U.S. made financial sense, he said, even if it meant…
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Courts to decide fate of Trump’s latest push to control voting as Election Day nears
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority.…
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Minnesota candidates, outside groups, spent big in weeks leading up to Nov. 3 election
Candidates for Minnesota’s statewide offices, alongside their deep-pocketed outside allies, have poured millions of dollars into what will likely be the most expensive midterm election in state history, according to campaign finance documents released Tuesday. Sen. Amy…