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Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night, squaring off over everything from foreign policy and the economy to the 2020 election and abortion rights. Contemporaneous newspaper reports — first reported by Minnesota Public Radio News and APM Reports — place Walz in Nebraska at the time. Fact-check: Is housing 60% more expensive during the Biden administration? “Iran, which launched this attack, has received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration," Vance said. As part of a prisoner exchange the Biden administration negotiated with Iran last year, $6 billion more in Iranian assets were unfrozen.

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☆ Fact check: JD Vance and Tim Walz at the vice presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

Tim Walz and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are facing off Tuesday night in New York City for their first – and only – vice presidential debate. Vance mischaracterizes Harris’ role on border policySen. JD Vance claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed the “border czar” during the Biden administration. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance attend a debate hosted by CBS News in New York on Tuesday. A recent report from the US Department of Energy found 142,000 new clean energy jobs were created in 2023. Alex Kent/Getty Images Cutout images of Vance and Walz are displayed at a debate watch party in New York.

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Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, for applying the state’s tobacco tax to Zyn, a nicotine pouch popular with young men. The ad ends with a pro-Trump influencer telling a Trump rally: “Trump 2024, that’s it. And advisers caution that while they are focused on messaging specifically to reach young men, they see a larger universe of target voters. Getty ImagesOn Saturday, the Harris campaign launched “Athletes for Harris,” highlighting endorsements from 15 NFL Hall of Famers. “The neglect of the issues of men, especially young men, has really been going on for quite a while now, and it’s going to take some serious work to persuade young men that we really do have their backs,” he said.

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A third of teens and young adults in the U.S. can’t afford or otherwise access menstrual products, according to new research from Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Some young people may skip school, sports or other social activities because of a lack of access to menstrual products. “This is impacting everyone.”Some states are passing legislation to increase access to menstrual products in schools. Are you able to access tampons or pads? “Just like toilet paper is readily available in all restrooms, we’d love to see improved access to free menstrual products everywhere.”

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☆ TikTok is fighting for its life in US court — and it's on track to lose, former DOJ official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Attorneys for the US government and the widely popular social media app faced off on Monday in a federal appeals court as TikTok fights against a law that could soon see the platform banned in the country. Rozenshtein said that he believes the appeals court will rule "decisively" and "comprehensively" against TikTok. AdvertisementTikTok's lawyer argued the law 'imposes extraordinary speech prohibition'In his oral arguments on Monday, TikTok lawyer Andrew Pincus slammed the law as "unprecedented." AdvertisementThe panel of judges, at times, seemed skeptical of TikTok's arguments. After the appeals court issues its ruling, the case could end up before the Supreme Court where Rozenshtein also predicts TikTok will not fare well.

Persons: —, Alan Rozenshtein, Rozenshtein, Joe Biden, TikTok's, Biden, haven't, TikTok, Andrew Pincus, Pincus, Daniel Tenny, Sarah Kreps, Kreps, Jaffer Organizations: Service, Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, TikTok, Business, Justice Department, University of Minnesota Law School, Chinese Communist Party, Justice, Tech, Institute, New York's Cornell University, Columbia University —, Pew Research Center Locations: TikTok's Beijing, ByteDance, China, United States

☆ The inside story of how Sandra Day O’Connor rebuffed pressure from Scalia and others to overturn Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Handwritten notes from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's papers on a major abortion case in 1989. The correspondence and notes foreshadow where O’Connor landed in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, hostile to Roe v. Wade in 1989, was ready to join O’Connor in upholding Roe. Accelerating the tensions all around was the time pressure of the Missouri case. O’Connor wrote that Kennedy said, “Roe is just flawed analytically” and that he wanted to “return this debate to democratic process” in the states. Library of CongressDraft opinion language from Justice John Paul Stevens he sent to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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☆ A 'man-made disaster' could make it trickier to buy or sell a home in some areas this fall, real estate expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

That's because the National Flood Insurance Program — the government-sponsored public insurance program that is the largest flood insurer in the U.S. — needs to be reauthorized by Sept. 30 to continue to issue new policies or increase coverage on existing policies. "There are very few private insurers that offer any type of flood insurance," said Daniel Schwarcz, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School who focuses on insurance law and regulation. In that report, from 2011, it estimated a one-month NFIP lapse could affect about 40,000 closings. "There is no need to take the risk that the flood insurance program will lapse when you could close ahead of Sept. Then in 2021, FEMA implemented Risk Rating 2.0, a new pricing system that would accurately reflect the cost of an area's risk.

Persons: Jaret Seiberg, Cowen, Jeremy Porter, Daniel Schwarcz, Cowen's, Yanjun Liao, Liao, Schwarcz, Foundation's Porter, Porter Organizations: Getty, Federal Reserve, National Flood Insurance, Federal Emergency Management Agency, First Street Foundation, University of Minnesota Law School, National Association of Realtors, FEMA, Resources Locations: U.S, New York, Washington ,

☆ Uber, Lyft and the gig economy think they've found a way to win the national labor war
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

While only applicable in California, labor law experts expect momentum to spread to other states where the issue hasn't yet been tested. 22 went into effect, more than 80% of California drivers surveyed said that it has been good for them. In other high-population states, there has been a wave of recent actions and compromises between the companies and the states. In November, New York announced two settlements totaling $328 million with Uber and Lyft to resolve multi-year investigations. The state had been seeking a court determination that Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, not independent contractors.

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☆ California top court upholds ballot measure treating Uber, Lyft drivers as independent contractors
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Reuters —California’s top state court on Thursday upheld a measure approved by voters allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to consider drivers in the most populous U.S. state as independent contractors rather than as employees entitled to greater benefits. Whether gig workers should be treated as employees or contractors is a crucial issue for the ride-service industry. California is just one front in a nationwide legal battle over the classification of gig drivers and other contract workers. In June, Uber and Lyft agreed to adopt a $32.50 hourly minimum wage for drivers in Massachusetts and pay $175 million to settle a lawsuit by the state claiming they improperly treated drivers as independent contractors. A proposal that would allow app-based drivers to unionize will go before voters in the state in November.

Persons: Reuters —, Lyft, Uber, “, Tia Orr, ” Organizations: Reuters, Service Employees International Union, SEIU, Employees, California Supreme Locations: U.S, California, SEIU California, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Massachusetts

☆ Why Jay Powell really wants to lower interest rates this September
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It’s interesting to me that the equity market is cheering the idea that the Fed is going to be cutting rates. There tends to be a fine line between cutting rates and extending the economic cycle or cutting rates because the cycle is coming to an end (and the economy is softening). When the Fed is cutting rates, it’s cutting rates because a recession is about to happen, right? That’s why I say there’s a fine line between the Fed cutting to extend the cycle and the Fed cutting because a recession is about to happen. The Fed has been in this precarious space where they’re trying to avoid recession while lowering interest rates.

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☆ Minnesota lawmakers strike minimum pay deal for Uber, Lyft drivers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Minnesota government officials have struck a deal with rideshare companies Uber and Lyft to set minimum wage standards for drivers, lawmakers announced Saturday night. The rule was delayed after Lyft and Uber warned they would leave Minneapolis. State lawmakers have been focused on compromising with the companies before a July 1 deadline. Under the new agreement, the statewide minimum wage rate for rideshare drivers will be $1.28 per mile and $0.31 per minute. “We applaud the tens of thousands of riders & drivers who sent close to 100,000 emails to legislators — your voices were heard.

Persons: Uber, Lyft, Jamie Long, ” Long, ”, Erin Murphy, Josh Gold Organizations: New, New York CNN, Minnesota, Democratic, Minneapolis City Council, Governor Locations: New York, Minnesota, Minneapolis, State

The company argues that the law violates the First Amendment by effectively killing an app in the U.S. that millions of Americans use to share their views. Another problem: a divestiture within 270 days is practically impossible, Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe report for The Times. DealBook spoke with Maheshwari about the lawsuit filed yesterday and what happens next. Do legal experts think TikTok has a chance at winning? Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, says that a victory is possible based on the “very, very substantial First Amendment challenge” involved.

Persons: TikTok, Sapna Maheshwari, David McCabe, DealBook, Maheshwari, Alan Rozenshtein, ” Organizations: U.S, The Times, University of Minnesota Law School Locations: Washington, ByteDance, U.S

☆ A 15-year-old law review by Brett Kavanaugh offers a clue at how the Supreme Court Justice could rule in Trump's immunity case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many in the political world are waiting with bated breath as the Supreme Court considers arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for his behavior while in office. Depending on how the high court rules, some of Trump's most serious legal troubles could melt away instantly. But one clue, hidden in a 2009 legal review written by Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh, could indicate how the conservative judge may decide in this case. One might contend that the country needs a check against a bad-behaving or law-breaking president, Kavanaugh acknowledges, but "the Constitution already provides that check." AdvertisementRepresentatives for the Supreme Court did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, didn't, Jonathan Entin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Entin, SCOTUS Organizations: Service, Republican, US, Case Western Reserve University, Supreme, DC Circuit, Department of Justice, Democratic, Trump, Business Locations: Minnesota

☆ A homebuyer's guide to the real-estate revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Real-estate agents' commissions have fluctuated between 5% and 6% of the sale price for decades, despite advances in technology and an influx of agents. The recent lawsuits, which accused the NAR and some of the country's largest brokerages of conspiring to keep agents' commissions unfairly high, could signal the start of a new era. If sellers aren't paying out commissions to buyers' agents, buyers themselves could end up on the hook. For example, what happens if the seller isn't willing to pay the buyer's agent's commission? In most states, the buyer's agent can technically just rebate that extra money to their client.

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☆ How legal fights and stalling by judge could push Trump documents trial after election
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The longer it takes for Cannon to decide these issues, the more likely a trial would need to wait until after the November presidential election. But Cannon’s critics view the pace of the Trump prosecution with added suspicion because of how she handled a separate, 2022 lawsuit Trump brought attacking the FBI’s documents investigation. In that lawsuit, Cannon granted an extraordinary Trump request for a third-party review of the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago resort for the classified documents. Now, critics accuse Cannon of – purposely or not – playing into Trump’s strategy of delaying the trial until after the election. Hours after the hearing, Cannon rejected Trump’s first claim, that the national defense law he is charged under was too vague.

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☆ Uber and Lyft are threatening to leave Minneapolis over a ride-hailing proposal supporters say would guarantee drivers earn the city's minimum wage
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The conversation around ride-hailing driver pay has been heating up across the country over the past year. AdvertisementLoren Balazs, a full-time driver in Minneapolis, told BI he's worried the city council's proposal would hurt his ride-hailing business. The study estimated that a minimum pay rate of $1.21 per mile and $0.49 per minute would guarantee drivers earned the city's minimum wage. AdvertisementThe debate over minimum pay for ride-hailing drivers has been building in Minneapolis for over a year. Tim Walz vetoed a bill that would have established minimum pay standards for Uber and Lyft drivers.

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☆ Burnsville, Minnesota shooting: 2 police officers and 1 firefighter killed, governor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Chris Boyette | Joe Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Two police officers and a firefighter were fatally shot and another officer was injured after responding to a domestic incident early Sunday morning in Burnsville, Minnesota, according to local authorities. Burnsville city officials identified the three victims Sunday afternoon as officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and firefighter/paramedic Adam Finseth, 40. “Minnesota mourns with you,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said during the news conference. My heart is with their families today and the entire State of Minnesota stands with Burnsville,” Walz said. He was part of the department’s crisis negotiations team and was also a physical evidence officer, officials said.

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It allows the city to suspend a landlord’s rental license if police answer four or more “nuisance” calls in a year. Minnesota law meanwhile prohibits landlords from limiting or preventing calls for emergency services and also preempts local ordinances penalizing landlords over such calls. She later learned the calls ran afoul of Peoria’s nuisance ordinance. Last year, Maryland prohibited landlords from evicting tenants over the number of emergency calls to their addresses, as well as prohibited cities and counties from penalizing landlords for emergency calls. Jose Cruz Guzman, who serves on the board of Minneapolis’ Sky Without Limits Cooperative, said emergency calls to an apartment would prompt support from fellow residents.

Persons: ”, Elizabeth Sauer, Jeff Weaver, Sue Abderholden, Scott Baumgartner, Baumgartner, Tina Davies, Davies, they’re, “ I’m, Kate Walz, Jose Cruz Guzman, ___ Hanna, Steve Karnowski Organizations: U.S . Department of Justice, Central Minnesota Legal Services, City, FBI, DOJ, Anoka, National Alliance, Mental, Associated Press, Fair Housing, Peoria, American Civil Liberties Union, New, New York Civil Liberties Union, National Housing Law, Housing, Prevention Locations: Minneapolis, Anoka, Mississippi, ”, Minnesota, California , Ohio, Illinois, Peoria, New York, Hesperia , California, U.S, Maryland, California, Topeka , Kansas

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature kicked off debate Thursday on whether the state should join the list of those that allow physician-assisted suicide. Ten states and the District of Columbia already allow some form of physician-assisted suicide, while proponents are planning fresh pushes to pass it this year in several other states. Patients would have to have the mental capacity to make their own health care decisions and provide informed consent, so those with dementia would not qualify. “Suicide is not health care. Current law already gives people the right to make legally binding end-of-care health care directives, the right to hospice and palliative care, and the right to refuse care, she said.

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In the Minnesota case, the plaintiffs are asking the state’s highest court to declare that Trump is disqualified and direct the secretary of state to keep him off the ballot for the state’s March 5 primary. But as awful as the melee was, and as disturbing as the rioters’ actions were, it was not a war upon the United States,” they wrote in an earlier filing. The Minnesota Supreme Court justices have scheduled just over an hour for oral arguments Thursday. The Minnesota case was filed by Free Speech For People, while the Colorado case came from another long-established group with significant legal resources, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. In Colorado, ballot challenges first go to a judge for a hearing and then can be appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, “, Trump, They’ve, Biden's, Trump’s, ”, ″, don’t, —, Joan Growe, Paul Anderson, Steve Simon, Simon, ___ Riccardi Organizations: PAUL, Trump, U.S . Capitol, U.S, Supreme, United States, Capitol, Republican Party of Minnesota Locations: Minnesota, Colorado, United States, The Minnesota, Washington . In Colorado, Denver

☆ Biden kicks off rural America tour in Minnesota
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] U.S. President Joe Biden holds an event about American retirement economics in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023. Thirteen top administration officials will visit rural places in 15 states, including election battlegrounds like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, to highlight investments in rural communities, where one in five Americans live. A campaign official told Reuters that Biden would also participate in a fundraiser in Minneapolis after the farm visit. Biden beat former president Donald Trump in Minnesota by 52.4% to 45.3%, winning the state's 10 electoral college votes out of a total of 538 total. "President Biden believes that investing in America means investing in all of America and leaving no one behind," Neera Tanden, who heads the White House Domestic Policy Council, told reporters.

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☆ Seeking the ‘Right’ Customers, an Insurer Is Accused of Discrimination
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Emily Flitter | More About Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A spokesman for the Maryland Insurance Administration declined to comment. The dispute reveals how a long-used insurance industry technique, ostensibly aimed at managing risk, can open the door to bias. As they evaluate a customer, agents are expected to decide whether a potential customer seems honest or reliable, or judge how tidy or well maintained their home is. “There are all kinds of conscious and unconscious biases involved.”Insurers have also been accused of discriminating against Black and Hispanic customers in other ways. But the accusation against Erie is that its policies kept Black and Hispanic homeowners out of its customer rolls in the first place.

Persons: Matthew Cummings, ”, Daniel Schwarcz Organizations: Maryland Insurance, University of Minnesota Law School, State Farm, Erie Locations: Erie, Chicago

☆ A top South Carolina Democratic official dismisses Dean Phillips' presidential bid as 'not serious,' says the Minnesota lawmaker has not yet contacted the party in the key early-voting state
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Christale Spain, the SC Democratic Party chair, told Politico he had not yet contacted Dems in the state. AdvertisementAdvertisementSpain said that Phillips had not yet spoken with Democrats in South Carolina, which she said was a sign that he's "not serious." "Any serious Democratic candidate … would understand that Black voters in South Carolina have been the backbone of the Democratic Party," she told the publication. (The change has caused a major rift with New Hampshire's claim as the first primary state by law.) (Steve Schmidt, the former GOP strategist now advising Phillips, told Politico that the campaign would "cede" the state to Biden.)

Persons: Dean Phillips, Joe Biden, Phillips, —, Joe Biden wasn't, Biden, Spain, …, Steve Schmidt Organizations: SC Democratic Party, Politico, Dems, Service, Minnesota, Democratic, New, South Carolina Democratic, Democratic Party, South, South Carolina —, DNC, GOP, Biden Locations: Spain, Washington, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, president's State

☆ Who is Rep. Tom Emmer, the House GOP’s new speaker nominee?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Rep. Tom Emmer, the House majority whip whose bid for House speaker was thrown into immediate jeopardy Tuesday afternoon, has tried to balance an at-times moderate voting record while trying to appeal to the Donald Trump-aligned base of the Republican Party. The Minnesota Republican emerged Tuesday afternoon as House Republicans’ new speaker nominee in the scramble to succeed Kevin McCarthy. Several Republicans who oppose Emmer told CNN Tuesday they will not change their stance and are calling for a new candidate. As majority whip, Emmer has experience with keeping the GOP’s narrow majority in line. McCarthy has backed the Minnesota Republican for speaker and urged the conference to elect him by the end of the week.

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☆ Trump’s Loss of Loyalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

But for Trump, Ellis' plea was especially damaging, since it underscored the steady evaporation of something Trump has demanded from staff and associates since his days as a New York businessman: loyalty. "If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. The three former Trump lawyers who pleaded guilty in Georgia were facing some serious potential consequences, he noted, including not just time behind bars but the loss of their law licenses – and that may take priority over honoring Trump's demands for loyalty. "This is not about Donald Trump vs. Michael Cohen," Cohen said as he entered the New York courtroom. You saw Donald Trump try to walk away from Sidney Powell – despite documentary evidence that he had called her his lawyer.

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