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Complaint: Minnesota utility worker filmed kids using toilet

ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Fourth-grade students and adults were filmed using a toilet during the 2016 Douglas County Groundwater Festival, in Alexandria, Minn. Alexandria Light and Power Utilities' former water treatment plant superintendent is facing criminal charges in connection...

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$Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, testifies before the House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 26, 2018. Pruitt began the first of two appearances before congressional panels on Thursday, in what is expected to be a daylong grilling over recent allegations of ethical infractions and lavish spending. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)$

EPA's Pruitt admits role in aide's pay raise but calls attacks on him politically motivated

WASHINGTON - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was unapologetic about his leadership during the first of two Capitol...

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears before a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Sessions evaded lawmakers’ questions about whether his recusal from campaign-related investigations extended to the inquiry into Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)

'This thing needs to conclude': Sessions says he understands frustrations with Mueller probe

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday took what seemed to be a veiled swipe at Robert Mueller and suggested the special counsel's...

news/government-and-politics 2 hours 5 min ago

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) leaves his trial at the federal courthouse in Newark, N.J., Oct. 26, 2017. Menendez is charged with 12 corruption-related counts, including six counts of bribery and three counts of honest services fraud. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez is 'severely admonished' by Ethics Committee

WASHINGTON - The Senate Ethics Committee said Thursday that Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who avoided conviction in a federal corruption trial...

news/government-and-politics 2 hours 16 min ago

Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, exits from Federal Court in New York on April 16, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Victor J. Blue

Federal judge appoints special master to review material seized from Trump lawyer

NEW YORK - A federal judge on Thursday appointed a special master to review material seized from the office and residences of President Donald...

news/government-and-politics 2 hours 51 min ago

An explosion and fire rocked the Husky Energy refinery and Superior just before 10 a.m. Thursday, April 26, shaking buildings up to a mile away. Photo by Mark Androsky.

UPDATE: County sheriff issues evacuation order after Wisconsin refinery explosion

SUPERIOR, Wis. — A series of explosions and fires rocked the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior on Thursday, April 26, sending a black plume...

news/fires 2 hours 55 min ago

Body found near Minnesota River identified

BURNSVILLE, Minn.. -- Burnsville police said Thursday, April 26, that the human remains found near the Minnesota River in Burnsville on Sunday...

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller leaves a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on June 21, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Eric Thayer.

Senate panel advances bill to protect Mueller from firing, but it's unlikely to become law

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation Thursday that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired...

news/government-and-politics 3 hours 7 min ago

Crime report for April 25

Sheriff's Report The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office responded to the following calls Wednesday: Burglary 12:07 a.m. Deputies responded to a...

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Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman. Craig County Sheriff's Office-National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Disappearance of two Oklahoma girls stumped police for years. Then they learned about the Polaroids.

The accused killers kept the Polaroid photos as trophies, witnesses would later tell investigators. The frozen moments were reminders of what...

news/crime-and-courts 4 hours 11 min ago

Minnesota state Rep. Rod Hamilton of Mountain Lake holds back tears as he reads a birthday card Tuesday, March 27. He turned 50 last weekend and his House Agriculture Finance Committee spent the first 10 minutes of its Tuesday meeting celebrating the event. Don Davis / Forum News Service

Minn. lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct at St. Paul apartment

ST. PAUL — Minnesota Rep. Rod Hamilton stands accused of inappropriate behavior just after the state House came under a new sexual misconduct...

news/government-and-politics 4 hours 27 min ago

Bill Cosby reacts while being notified of a verdict in his retrial on sexual assault charges at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., April 26, 2018. The jury on Thursday voted to convict Cosby of sexually assaulting a former Temple University staff member who had looked up to him as a mentor. (Mark Makela/Pool via The New York Times/Copyright 2018)

Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Iconic entertainer Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday on three counts of sexual assault, a decision that punctuates one of the...

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Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. secretary of state nominee for President Donald Trump, sits during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer

Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as Trump's next secretary of state

WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as secretary of state Thursday despite lingering objections from Democrats who have questioned...

news/government-and-politics 6 hours 22 min ago

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, leaves federal court in New York, April 16, 2018. A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt by President Trump and Cohen to block prosecutors from immediately reviewing a trove of materials seized in FBI raids last week on Cohen’s office, home, hotel room and safe deposit box. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)

The Daily 202: Michael Cohen will take the Fifth. Trump has said innocent people don't do that.

Neither President Donald Trump nor his lawyer wants to talk under oath. -- Michael Cohen - Trump's longtime attorney and consigliere - told a...

news/crime-and-courts 6 hours 42 min ago

Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York, April 16, 2018. The decision by Michael Cohen to abandon two defamation suits came as federal prosecutors are investigating his efforts to protect Donald Trump from brewing scandals. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)

Prosecutors quickly cite Trump's TV comments to help make case on Cohen files

Federal prosecutors moved quickly to take legal advantage of new comments by President Donald Trump, who said in an Fox News interview Thursday...

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