Much of America’s military intelligence capacity is focused now on the Russia-Ukraine border, where Russian troops are massed, and ready for President Vladimir Putin to give the order to attack. Day by day, the Biden administration and NATO allies have warned that a Russian incursion into ...

Rep. Jim Hagedorn Pointer: 1st District representative Jim Hagedorn died Thursday at the age of 59, after a battle with kidney cancer. The staunch conservative Republican serves as an embodiment of the old sayin, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try againg.” Three times he took a ...

Olympic athletes dream of winning a gold medal, standing on the top step of the platform and hearing their national anthem played. That’s not happening for participants in the team figure skating event in the Beijing Olympics. The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team took the gold, and the ...

This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the lightweight, unpopular elected leader of a country with a 93% vaccination rate for those over 60 and a total vaccination rate of 84%, announced that he would invoke the Emergencies Act in order to crack down on the Freedom Convoy -- a group ...

To the editor: The February 14th Editorial “Canada protests send clear message” ends with the sentence “These protests would not be necessary if more people took advantage of the protections provided by the vaccinations.” This statement is essentially placing the onus back on the ...

Minnesota’s new congressional district maps were released Tuesday, and Minnesota’s First and Second Congressional Districts are trading some territory. According to the maps drawn by a five-judge panel appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court, the Second District, represented now by Rep. ...