A top Minnesota Democrat criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar for voting "present" on a House resolution acknowledging the reality of the Armenian genocide. 
Trump supporter Dave Carlson was giving an interview with Vice when a protester spat in his face outside a Minneapolis Trump rally Thursday. 
President Donald Trump's campaign is threatening a lawsuit after Minneapolis city leaders charged it $530,000 for security at an event scheduled for Thursday—26 times the amount it billed former president Barack Obama for a 2009 rally. 
The progressive wing of Democratic presidential contenders is staking out a hardline position on a pipeline replacement project in Minnesota, a position that is further left than many local Democrats in the state and could pinch more centrist Democrats on the national level. Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information. 
The Tonight Show told the state it spent more than $3 million to air in Minnesota, including a $162,000 paycheck for host Jimmy Fallon. Records obtained by Minnesota Public Radio via public records request indicate the show also pocketed $266,834.50 through a Minnesota government rebate program amid questionable eligibility. 
Democrats in a House agriculture subcommittee lashed out at a retired millionaire who applied for and received food stamps in an effort to prove that eligibility for the government benefits in his home state of Minnesota were too lax and could be easily exploited. 
The SNAP program is mainly funded by federal dollars, but states create their own rules and distribution mechanisms for the money. 
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune editorial board is growing tired of the constant controversies surrounding freshman lawmaker Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.). 
The Democrat-controlled Maryland House of Delegates moved forward legislation to legalize assisted suicide. 