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Opinion

Trump and the UN come to a head

Editorial

The Trump administration will always couch even its most reasonable decisions in the most dramatic terms possible, and so it was with a State Department announcement that the U.S. would be sending a significantly smaller humanitarian aid package to the United Nations: “Individual U.N. ...

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

Local columns

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota's Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one year's end and the next one's beginning to take a longer look at America's experience with ...

Cuba’s future uncertain after actions in Venezuela

Local columns

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials on Monday lowered flags before dawn to mourn 32 security officers they say were killed in the U.S. weekend strike in Venezuela, the island nation's closest ally, as residents here wonder what the capture of President Nicolás Maduro means for their future. The ...

Almanac for Jan. 6, 2026

Local columns

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2026. There are 359 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and stormed into the U.S. Capitol to interrupt the certification of ...

Trump’s mass firing of diplomats dangerous

Editorial

President Trump, would-be peacemaker on a global scale, has apparently decided he can fulfill that role with a decimated diplomatic corps that by mid-January will see more than half of the U.S. embassies around the world lacking an ambassador. Nearly 30 ambassadors were told just before ...