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A federal judge has dismissed a challenge by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis to Minnesota's coronavirus restrictions.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Senate has confirmed a judicial nominee without a seal of approval from a home state senator.

A class-action lawsuit filed in the United States says 92 Somalis sat bound and shackled on an airplane for nearly two days, some urinating on themselves, during a botched U.S. deportation attempt.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has blocked construction work on a Red River flood control project in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's ban on admitting travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries or any refugees left authorities and advocates wondering what to do Saturday with the people who finally got visas to come to America, only to be turned away.

St Paul (KROC AM News) – In honor and remembrance of Judge Miles Lord, Governor Mark Dayton has ordered all U.S. flags and Minnesota flags to be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings Thursday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a judge overseeing terrorism cases in Minnesota is among those who were threatened over Twitter last year.

Minneapolis, MN (Learfield Wire Services) -  A federal judge has awarded damages to three women who sued a Saudi Arabian prince after he had them fired from their limousine jobs while he was in Rochester.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Wilhelmina Wright as Minnesota's newest federal judge.

St PAUL, Minn. (AP) —The state of Minnesota has filed a notice of appeal with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal judge ordered a risk assessment of all sex offenders in the state's restrictive civil confinement program.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —A federal judge has ordered a risk assessment of all sex offenders in Minnesota's restrictive civil confinement program to determine which can be put on a pathway for release.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge is expected to order changes to Minnesota's restrictive program for sex offenders this week, a long-awaited step for more than 700 who alleged the facilities were more like prisons.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State attorneys defending the Minnesota sex offender confinement program are urging a judge to exercise restraint when ordering fixes to a system he ruled is unconstitutional.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's newest nominee for a federal judgeship would be moving over from the state's Supreme Court.