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Democrats flipped a state Senate district that President Donald Trump won by double digits. In a House election, the outcome slimmed the GOP's margin further.
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The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other's throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.
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The House still must clear the legislation for President Trump's signature, but is not expected to return to Washington to do so before Monday.
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Trump's immigration enforcement surge continues to rock Minnesota, just a week after the ICE shooting of Renee Good, a mother of three and U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the number of federal agents now in Minneapolis and Saint Paul outstrips the 10 largest Twin Cities metro police departments combined. "We don't want ICE in our neighborhoods. They are violent, they are creating chaos and terrorizing our immigrant neighbors, and they are not keeping anyone safe," says vice president of the Saint Paul City Council, Hwa Jeong Kim, who comments on the city's new lawsuit against the Trump administration, the loss of temporary protected status for thousands of Somali immigrants in the United States, plans for a general strike in Minneapolis and more.
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 U.S. President Donald Trump, facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated the country's racial divide, will sign an executive order on Tuesday that seeks to improve how police officers treat African Americans.
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