| | Minnesota's August primaries may deliver high drama, big turnout | | Minnesota summer primaries are typically sleepy affairs with lousy turnout and a call-me-in-the-fall attitude among voters. Not this year. Instead, election observers say several high-profile party races led by the campaign for governor may drive turnout for the Aug. 14 primary to levels not seen in 20 years. | |
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| | Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas | | The U.S. Border Patrol on Sunday allowed reporters to briefly visit the facility where it holds families arrested at the southern U.S. border, responding to new criticism and protests over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy and resulting separation of families. | |
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| Trump to take part in roundtable event in Duluth | | A White House official said Monday that the roundtable meeting is an official event, not a political one. Trump will sit down with mining industry workers, the president of the Duluth port authority and two St. Louis County commissioners, Pete Stauber and board chairman Keith Nelson. | |
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| Bureaucracy and politics slow election security funding to states | | When Congress approved giving $380 million to states to bolster the security of their elections, state officials were caught off guard but extremely grateful. But getting that money into the hands of localities that run the elections, with enough time is a difficult proposition. | |
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