With one week remaining before the Nov. 5 elections, major candidates in the metro area and statewide races have suspended campaign activities in the wake of Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone's death Friday,...

D By Libby George and Andrew Pritchard FL Party chairman Mike Erlandson said Sunday morning that the full DFL State Central Committee will meet Tuesday to choose a successor to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone,...

The mourning for Sen. Paul Wellstone and those killed in Friday's plane crash has just begun, but political scientists and analysts are weighing the consequences of his death on Minnesota's political landscape,...

F By Libby George and K.C. Howard lags at the State Capitol and Capitol Hill flew half-staff Friday as political officials mourned the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle,...

W By Dana Milbank The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The Bush administration late Thursday announced a budget deficit of $159 billion for the fiscal year just ended, confirming that the federal government...

W By Judy Sarasohn The Washington Post ASHINGTON - First the buzzword was bipartisanship: Lobby shops and law firms with government affairs practices whose identities were too tied up with one political...

Surrounded by students and a throng of orange-clad supporters, Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tim Penny and running mate Martha Robertson campaigned in Willey Hall on Wednesday. "We're just...

The USA Patriot Act passed after last fall's terrorist attacks could help protect the country from terrorism or destroy its most valued freedoms, said two legal experts debating Tuesday at the University's...

In an effort to get students to vote for U.S. Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia were on campus Tuesday speaking to students. "The reaction of students has just been incredible,"...