A Republican state senator recently suggested using Minnesota’s estimated budget surplus of $1.3 billion to give a rebate “directly to taxpayers.”
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Day: January 5, 2020
Commentary: War With Iran?
Does the U.S. armed forces’ killing of Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign wing, and his subordinate, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, outside Baghdad’s airport increase or decrease the chances of war with Iran? Does it mean a continuation of our disastrous endless wars?
Read MoreCory Booker’s Campaign Struggles to Keep Up With Opponents’ Fundraising Efforts
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s presidential campaign raked in just $6.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Booker campaign reported Friday.
Read MoreTop Democratic Candidates End 2019 With Big Money Push
Several of the top-tier Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination released information this week about their fundraising efforts in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Read MoreGolden Globes to Serve Vegan Cuisine for 2020 Awards Show
The 2020 Golden Globes are going vegan.
Read MoreUS-Led Coalition Denies Airstrike Near Baghdad Saturday
BAGHDAD – The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said Saturday it did not conduct any airstrikes near Camp Taji north of Baghdad.
Read MoreICE Catches Illegal Alien Allegedly Behind Deadly Hit-and-Run and Released by Local Authorities
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was able to apprehend an illegal alien who, after getting arrested for a deadly hit-and-run accident, was immediately released by local authorities.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Won’t Reveal Cost of Medicare-for-All Because ‘It’s Such a Huge Number’
Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday that he won’t put a price tag on his government takeover of the health care system because the figure is “such a huge number.”
Read MoreHow Crisco Toppled Lard and Made Americans Believers In Industrial Food
Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one of millions of Americans who have, for generations, used it to make cookies, cakes, pie crusts and more.
Read MoreThe Battleground State Report: Trump’s Unpredictability Is a Game Changer Both Foreign and Domestic
During a live recording on Friday’s Battleground State Report with Michael Patrick Leahy and Doug Kellett – a one-hour radio show from Star News Digital Media in the early stages of national weekend syndication rollout – with Kellett out of the studio, Leahy welcomed Tennessee Star Report’s all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the show.
Read MoreLara Trump Will Speak at an Ohio ‘Keep America Great’ Event Next Week
Presidential campaign adviser Lara Trump will make an appearance in Columbus Wednesday at a “Keep America Great Again” event. This visit comes a day before President Trump will be hosting his first campaign rally of 2020 in Toledo.
Read MoreKeith Ellison Asks Supreme Court to Review ‘Illogical And Chaotic’ ACA Decision
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has joined a coalition of 19 states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a recent decision that found the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in a…
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