President Donald Trump held a rally in Minneapolis Thursday, the first since Democrats began proceedings two weeks ago to remove him from office. Trump was defiant in the face of an impeachment probe.
President Donald Trump will hold a rally Thursday evening in Minneapolis and the University of St. Thomas has hired a new interim director of choral activities. Designer Lia Saari has today’s News in :90.
Republican-led Senate sets deal to rebuke President Donald Trump on his declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, William Singer pleads guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges in federal court, former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke announces he’s running for president in 2020, and vandals shatter a Virgin Mary statue in St. Thomas’ Ireland Hall. Photographer Drew Bouman has today’s News in :90.
College students — many for the first time — represented at the DFL and GOP victory parties on election night.
The energy at the GOP victory party continued to climb as state after state began swinging towards Donald Trump on election night.
Minnesotans joined 11 other states in the Super Tuesday caucuses and primaries, giving Sen. Marco Rubio his only win of the night.
Spokeswoman Katie Boyd says the party has counted 79,000 participants so far with only about 70 percent of results in. She says that is 15,000 more than in the record year of 2008. Democrats also reported very heavy turnout Tuesday but haven’t yet given numbers.
Marco Rubio captured his first win in the march to the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday while Bernie Sanders snagged a critical victory in the North Star State’s Democratic caucuses.
Republican candidates Mike McFadden and Jeff Johnson couldn’t turn the tide against incumbent Democrats Sen. Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton.
The 2014 midterm elections prompted St. Thomas students to vote at one of two local polling locations Tuesday.
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
The Republican-controlled House approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay in key parts of the nation’s health care law.
