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Most of us are familiar with CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. You sign on (or in) to something and you then are confronted with weird letters or numbers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Few things are certain in Congress anymore. One thing lawmakers can still count on? August recess.

But the five-week-long break for the House isn’t all fun and games — especially ahead of the tight ...Read more

This column evokes the idiom “The horse has already left the barn.” But, as one respected journalist (my brother David) has noted, if the horse has left the barn, the thing to do is to saddle up another horse, corral ...Read more

Politicians all over the world are showing renewed enthusiasm for public ownership of private companies. The methods range from modest government stakes to outright nationalization, but the trend is apparent.

Whether ...Read more

It happened in a moment so small that many viewers may have missed it. After a UFC fight, athlete Josh Hokit used his victory speech not to celebrate his win but to demean former First Lady Michelle Obama, repeating a long...Read more

More than 100 recent protests across California and the U.S. over data centers represent the same fierce opposition that horse enthusiasts once mounted against Model T cars. Times change and so must we.

The talk of a new ...Read more

In many ways, the race to be Wisconsin’s next governor is a microcosm of developments happening around the country.

The race features politicians from both parties pandering to rural voters. In one campaign ad, U.S. Rep...Read more

The Supreme Court closed out its term and issued decisions that could affect millions of Americans. Among them is Watson v. Republican National Committee, in which the court decided in a 5-4 decision to uphold longstanding...Read more

Democrats attacked Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative with unusual vigor, but who can doubt that a federal behemoth which spends $7 trillion annually has ample room for downsizing? Consider one agency that bleeds millions each ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress acts on a stopgap funding bill to keep the government operating beyond Oct. 1 at current levels, unless specified otherwise, it must decide whether to grant exceptions — potentially including $...Read more

MILFORD, Mich. — President Donald Trump touted his administration's efforts to boost manufacturing and combat inflation during a speech in Michigan on Monday, telling people they will "see results very soon."

Trump's ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has released audio recordings of interviews that former President Joe Biden taped with his memoir-writing partners years ago after he lost a court fight to prevent the disclosure....Read more

As the Senate speeds toward its upcoming August recess, President Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep his chamber in session and in Washington instead.

So far, that’s ...Read more

The federal judge in Florida overseeing President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times has deferred ruling on the newspaper’s request to toss the case, and instead is allowing Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump headed to Michigan on Monday to again try selling the U.S. economy to voters ahead of November’s midterms, hitting the state’s competitive 7th District with control of the House on the line.

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Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan came out swinging during their second debate of the U.S. Senate campaign on Monday.

Fraud, endorsements and Israel defined the MPR News debate, as well as questions over which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to lift a judge’s order and clear the way for state-by-state lists of citizens who are eligible to vote by mail.

Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer ...Read more