The U.S. Senate failed to muster the 67 votes needed to impeach former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday. But the 43 Republican votes against impeachment were not exactly an exoneration. The evidence presented by the House impeachment managers made clear that the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. ...

Tragedy hits home THUMBS DOWN: News of a mass shooting anywhere is hard to hear. When one occurs in your home state, it is harder still. But to hear that the Allina clinic shooting in Buffalo took the life of someone from here, someone lots of people knew, a friend, a family member — it’s ...

The U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump may not result in a conviction. There are enough Republican senators hewing to their party line to prevent the conviction. Their minds were made up before the trial began that they would not vote to convict Trump. But this ...

We don’t know what set off Gregory Paul Ulrich, sending him on a rampage to shoot up the Allina Clinic in Buffalo on Tuesday. But the fact that something was bound to set him off sooner or later was pretty well known by the staff at the clinic and by law enforcement. The 67-year-old Ulrich ...

Minnesota made a big jump in the rate of vaccinations recently. On Monday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Minnesota jumped from 45th place to 14th in the nation in the rate of doses administered per 100,000 population. That’s good news. At least 569,164 Minnesotans ...

If there is any more glaring example of the schism developing in the Republican party, it is the case of Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, voted with Democrats, one of 10 Republicans to do so, to impeach former President ...