WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds. Medicaid is the U.S. health care safety net for low-income Americans. As of late 2025, nearly 70 million…
FILE – The Target logo displayed on a sign outside a store, Nov. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota….
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims by the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area. Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack surrounded by immigration officers stirred outrage over the crackdown. Danielle Molliver, a lawyer…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, have been released following a judge’s order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro. The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador, were detained in a Minneapolis…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — Minnesota Attorney General Ellison and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are suing the Trump Administration to halt “Operation Metro Surge”. They allege that the surge is unconstitutional and unlawful, violating the First and Tenth Amendments, the Equal Sovereignty Principle and the federal Administrative Procedure Act. They claim the surge of federal agents is pretext for…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota will get nearly $200 million as part of the Rural Health Transformation Program. It’s aimed at improving health care quality and access in rural areas. The Trump administration announced the awards for each state and they range from $145 million to $281 million in the first year. The program will award $50 billion over…
ST. PAUL (KVRR) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has joined another lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time over SNAP benefits. Ellison and 21 other attorneys general are trying to stop the federal government from cutting off benefits for thousands of lawful permanent residents. They are seeking to block new USDA guidance that they say wrongly treats several groups…
(CNN) — A federal judge in Rhode Island rules that the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. US District Judge John McConnell said, “People have gone without for too long and not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable.” Nearly 42 million Americans receive food stamps….
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration is launching Medicaid spending probes in Minnesota and at least five other Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scouring payments covering health care for immigrants without legal status to ensure there…
Minnesota became the latest state Wednesday to face a lawsuit from the Trump administration seeking to force it to give its high school graduates who entered the U.S. illegally as immigrants the same lower tuition rates reserved for in-state citizens. The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit also seeks to strike down a law that allows the same immigrant students to receive scholarships…
