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With West focused on Iran, Netanyahu moves to expand Israeli settlements

MinnpostHighQuality Journalism For People Who Care About Minnesota

With President Obama gearing up for reelection and the international community focused on Iran's nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking advantage of a distinct lack of scrutiny to expand Israeli settlements in the West Ban... »

What if the DFL had kept control of the Legislature?

MinnpostMinnpost.com Region

Editor’s note: With all of Minnesota’s political polarization since the 2010 elections, we decided to explore two possible “alternate realities” that could have occurred if relatively few voters had chosen “the other candidate.”  Second  of two article... »

Syrians in Homs feel abandoned by world

MinnpostHighQuality Journalism For People Who Care About Minnesota

The Syrian military took its bombardment of the rebel-held Baba Amro district of Homs into a fourth week on Saturday as the Red Cross tried to evacuate more distressed civilians from the city.At least 28 people were killed in Syria on Saturday, includi... »

North Korea and US talk for first time since Kim Jong-il's death

MinnpostMinnpost.com Region

The US and North Korea entered a new round of exploratory talks Thursday in Beijing amid flickering hopes that they would lead at long last to six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.As Glyn Davies, the new US envoy to North Korea, sat down wi... »

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Republicans Quam and Murray don't like local control, like big government

MN Progressive Project

Republicans always claim that they want local control of government. But Rep. Duane Quam (R-Byron) and Rep. Rich Murray (R-Albert Lea) introduced HF389 because they find local control inconvenient. They don't like it that local levels of government can... »

CPAC Highlights, Speeches

True North

Many of our True North contributing writers are in #CPAC this weekend, including Ed Morrissey, Eye on Politics, and Princess Politics. Steven Hayward from Power Line is also attending and filed this video recap of Friday's events - finding CPAC isn't y... »

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Kurt Zellers and Matt Dean are all in for Romney | The Glean

MinnPost

AFTERNOON EDITION Kurt Zellers and Matt Dean are all in for Romney By Brian Lambert | Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 Well, this ought to seal it for Romney in Minnesota in November. Brian Bakst of the AP is reporting, “Minnesota's House speaker and majority lead... »

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With West focused on Iran, Netanyahu moves to expand Israeli settlements

MinnpostHighQuality Journalism For People Who Care About Minnesota

With President Obama gearing up for reelection and the international community focused on Iran's nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking advantage of a distinct lack of scrutiny to expand Israeli settlements in the West Ban... »

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