The congresswoman's tweets may have been indelicate, but that doesn't make her criticism of organizations like AIPAC any less true.
Among the positive signs from the recent midterm elections is the pushback against privatizating public education in the U.S.
Just 16 percent of eligible voters ages 18 to 29 bothered to punch their ballots in 2014. They won't make the same mistake again.
Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia and a Muslim, wins the Democratic primary for Minnesota’s 5th District House seat, hoping to succeed Keith Ellison.
Karen Monahan alleges the Minnesota congressman once dragged her off a bed while screaming obscenities. Ellison is running for state attorney general in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
The self-proclaimed socialist challenges the notion her politics can only find success in the Bronx.
A mid-April storm stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes dumps two feet of snow on parts of the Upper Midwest before plowing toward the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
Officer Mohamed Noor is jailed on third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of Justine Damond, who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home.
A study of ninth- and 11th-graders in Minnesota estimates that nearly 2,200 consider themselves transgender or gender nonconforming.
Gov. Mark Dayton picks a longtime adviser and fellow Democrat, who says she will run for the post in November.
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