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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced settlements in two long-running cases against the IRS, saying, "There's no excuse" for the agency's treatment of the groups, which sought tax-exempt status.

Super Tuesday pushed Republican presidential candidate John McCain well ahead of his opponents in the delegate chase, but it did little to resolve the underlying differences with the GOP. McCain held a news conference Wednesday to look ahead.

Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died early Saturday at age 53. NPR's Juan Williams, who had appeared with Snow as a commentator on Fox News Channel, talks about his friend and former colleague.

One of Pruitt's closest political allies in Congress said he would call for the EPA chief to step down if his ethical scandals don't stop.

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

An NPR/Marist poll found that rural, white Republicans — especially supporters of former President Trump — are among the least likely to get a vaccine. In rural Tennessee, we hear from some of them.

The five-term North Carolina senator retired in 2003 but left a legacy of strong conservatism — and controversy — in a state that hadn't seen a GOP senator for decades. He has died at the age of 86.

In our final Statewide Conversation Governor Tim Walz joined us to talk about the current state of the pandemic in Minnesota. He looked back at how the…

A couple of weeks ago I went to the movie Bombshell with Laura Connelly and Sarah Bignall. The movie is about the women at Fox News who set out to expose…

“We want to cultivate communication, compassion and connection… We provide professional development in a variety of different ways to organizations, to…

Soulful singer Sam Smith swept the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Melissa Block interviewed Smith about his album "In the Lonely Hour" in 2014.

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra's perfectly timed collaboration between U.S. and Cuban musicians features cutting-edge works by a carefully selected group of composers.

Dan Anderson runs the Hockey House in Brainerd, MN and thinks about hockey more than most people. We are grateful he took the time chat on Friday's…

Louis Johannsen was back with us today to tell us about upcoming events with the MN Chippewa Tribe - comprised of the 6 bands Bois Forte, Fond du Lac,…

Scott Lykins is a professional cellist who grew up in the Brainerd area, left to pursue educational and career goals, and returned with some big ideas. In…

"....I really came to discover two things. The first one was how incredibly misrepresented the native experience had been in our historical narrative. And…

“We’re kind of a novel town. We’re an older town…it was a logging town in the old days…We’re a fortunate town. We’ve got two lumber yards, three places…

Area Voices tells the arts, culture and history stories of northern Minnesota. In this segment of Area Voices, we learn about a native northern Minnesotan…