Minnesota hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972 and it voted against Donald Trump three times. Since the federal immigration surge began late last year, Minnesotans have offered various theories as to why their state was targeted by the Trump administration. The state is a refuge for trans people, abortion access, civic engagement, high voter turnout, a donor …

This year's Munich Security Conference report highlights what Europe now faces and what it describes as fragmentation within the West. In the post-Cold War era, the liberal international order and liberal democracies functioned as the normative reference point of global politics in a distinctly West-centric manner. Today, however, this situation no longer holds. The present crisis cannot be explained solely …

The partial government shutdown is affecting agencies under the Department of Homeland Security. The funding for the department is set to expire on Saturday. Democrats want new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Some federal workers could start to miss paychecks and services like airport screening could suffer if the shutdown drags on for weeks.

Trump administration is reversing the progress made by the environmental movement. The president has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump has taken 145 actions to undo environmental rules in his first 100 days in office, more than he reversed during his entire first term as president.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has condemned Donald Trump's foreign policy at the Munich security conference. She also condemned the US capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the US support for Israel's war on Gaza. She and her fellow Democrats are calling for a return to a "rules-based order" without the "hypocrisies" of US foreign policy.

Cassidy was censured by Louisiana Republicans for voting to convict Trump. He has sought to mend ties with Trump and his loyalists. Cassidy's opponent, Republican Rep. Julia Letlow, was endorsed by Trump even before she declared her intentions to run. The filing deadline in Louisiana came and went with big-name Democrats choosing not to mount a Senate challenge.

Ilia Malinin fell twice during the opening of the men's free skate on Friday night in Milan at the Winter Olympic Games and finished 8th overall. The internet is criticizing the Olympics and the Milan committee for the poor ice quality that led to the 'Red Wedding of Figure Skating'

Donald Trump revoked the endangerment finding of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Spain is one of the regions most exposed to climate impacts. Spain's economic growth is driven by the ecological transition. Spain wants to lead the global effort to confront climate change. Extreme phenomena related to climate change caused the European Union economic losses of 822 billion euros between …