A federal appeals court blocked Minnesota Democrats from extending the state’s mail-in ballot deadline past Election Day, handing state Republicans a major legal victory.
Residents who want to carry a gun to defend themselves in Minnesota are facing unprecedented hurdles as permit wait times skyrocket amid record demand.
Two confirmed cases of coronavirus were traced to campaign events for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Minnesota.
Republicans are challenging a move by Minnesota election officials to allow ballots to be counted past Election Day even if they are not postmarked. 
Democratic Colorado governor Jared Polis signaled his opposition to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) with a donation to her primary opponent, new filings show.
Rep. Ilhan Omar's (Minn.) Democratic primary challenger raised more than six times the amount of money the congresswoman did in the second quarter of 2020. That's bad news for any incumbent, but is especially embarrassing given that Omar's latest husband, Tim Mynett, is her campaign's chief fundraising consultant. 
“If a writer pitched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life story to a Hollywood producer as a movie, it would likely be rejected as simply too impossible to believe,” Dean Obeidallah wrote recently at Salon.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) said Friday that Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D., Minn.) chances of being Joe Biden's 2020 running mate had been damaged by the violent unrest in Minnesota this week. 
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D.) told Minneapolis residents protesting the death of George Floyd to react more kindly to the National Guard than to local police, saying Friday the former group was not the one they "associate with unfair conduct." Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has refused to grant a conservative journalist access to the state's daily coronavirus press briefings. Scott Johnson, co-founder of the award-winning website Power Line, has covered the government's response to the pandemic in a daily series titled, "Coronavirus in One State." The posts regularly receive hundreds of comments from Minnesota residents, the PowerLine site shows. 