U.S. Department of State

The Terrorists Next Door

National security laws have transformed America's most vulnerable immigrants into terrorists

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal freed by Iran

Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal are finally free.​Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are coming home, and not a moment too soon.Two years after they were first detained in Iran on fraudulent spying charges, and two months into an eight-year prison sentence, Bauer, a Minnesota native and international ... More >>

David Petraeus wants to know if Al Franken was brainwashed

Petraeus: Serious about an investigation.​Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Afghanistan, has ordered an investigation over a report last week that alleges a military psy-ops team tried to play mind tricks on visiting U.S. lawmakers -- including Sen. Al Franken. The goal, acco ... More >>

Michele Bachmann thinks Eric Holder can control WikiLeaks

Clueless.​For all her ability to gin up fans via social media on the Internet, Michele Bachmann really does seem clueless when it comes to the inner workings of the information superhighway. Take her call today for the resignation of Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. In it, she castigates ... More >>

Abdi Mahdi Hussein charged with terrorism for aiding Al-Shabaab

Somalis are waging war on themselves with money sent from here​Three more Somalis have been charged with funneling money to the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. One of the men was arrested Monday in Minneapolis. Abdi Mahdi Hussein, who works for a remittance company, is accused of conspiring wi ... More >>

Sarah Palin plays political football with Iran hostages in inscrutable Twitter rant

Shane Bauer can't count on Mama Grizzly.​We can probably all agree that a public Twitter account isn't the best place to shoot for nuance in U.S. diplomatic relations. But that didn't stop U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. We also can't be too surprised that Sarah Palin would pick ... More >>

Shane Bauer's Iran detention on WikiLeaks

Shane Bauer goes on trial in November.​Amid the massive dump of secret Iraq war documents at WikiLeaks: Support for an earlier report that Minnesota native Shane Bauer and two other American friends were hiking on Iraqi territory when they were seized by Iranian border guards in July 2009. Ba ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum

Tim Pawlenty rips Obama on Imam hired by George W. Bush

Pawlenty disgusted by message of religious tolerance and acceptance.

Betty McCollum seeks resolution for Peter Erlinder's release

McCollum reminds the Rwandan government of U.S. generosity in foreign aid​Will this help? Rep. Betty McCollum has introduced, and Keith Ellison has cosponsored, a U.S. House resolution calling on the Rwandan government to release accused genocide denier William Mitchell law professor Peter Erl ... More >>

The Uptake's state Capitol nix sparks debate

​Looking for a media beef that distills the journalism industry's rapid decentralization into a convenient and fun dichotomy? Of course you are.Background: Twin Cites-based citizen journalism site The UpTake had its state Capitol press space reservations canceled after Rochester Post-Bulletin edit ... More >>

Keith Ellison denied entry to Gaza

​"Denied entry to Gaza - hostilities. On to Rafah. Tweet cha when I get there," writes Rep. Keith Ellison Friday morning on his Twitter account. The Minneapolis congressman had been accompanying a trade delegation of 16 U.S. corporations to Saudi Arabia, helping to open doors for bilateral co ... More >>

Forced repatriation of ethnic Hmong raises state senator's ire

Mee Moua joins the international outcry over the fate of 4,000 Hmong forced to return to Laos.

Clinton calls for release of N.D. journalist held in Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the release of a North Dakota journalist and Minnesota college graduate being held in Iran.

Would you like to be felt up while your nails dry?

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Klobuchar asks UN to help free U.S. journalist in Iran

Roxana Saberi grew up in Fargo and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead. She hasn't been heard from since Feb. 10 when she called her father in Fargo to tell him she was detained in Iran.

Ex-Minnesota Somalis suspected of terrorism; Pawlenty goes for three-peat

Blotter brings you all the weird news that's fit to print

Newsweek: Were Minnesota Somalis recruited for jihad?

Reunited Somali families stranded after crackdowns

Feds making family reunions not so sweet

Tragic Minnesota connection in Olympics murder

Feds making family reunions not so sweet

TB Rising

Though declining nationwide, tuberculosis is increasing in Minnesota as immigrants flock here

The Death of Father Kaiser

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Mary Wilson

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

12/14 Morning Communiqué

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

12/12 Morning Communiqué

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

9/9: Morning Communique

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

8/11: Morning Communique

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

The Scandal That Could Eat Bush's Brain

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Rove/Plame: the smoking gun?

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Rove/Plame: Waas on KR's fibs to FBI

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Rove/Plame: two theories

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Vengeance is His

Park Chanwook's 'Oldboy' reinvents Jacobean drama for the 21st century

A Stranger Is Watching

RFIDs and the coming age of the digital pickpocket

Book Excerpt: The War on Civil Liberties

Online Exclusive: The new book by CP contributor Elaine Cassel details the U.S. government's war on terror and on its own citizens

Living in America

Meet the neighbors

The Other War

The Bush administration & the end of civil liberties

Artistic License, Revoked

The war on terror is keeping musicians out of the U.S.

Viva Vin Weber

A Minnesota tie to the ill-fated coup in Venezuela

Suicide Machines

Never mind how many snowmobile deaths occur as a result, kids are allowed to drive snowmobiles in Minnesota

No Place Like Home

Thousands of Somalis fled when their country committed suicide a decade ago. Now the local INS office has found a way to send them back.

Farewell, Kabul

Thousands of Somalis fled when their country committed suicide a decade ago. Now the local INS office has found a way to send them back.

Ground Troops

From its South Minneapolis headquarters, the American Refugee Committee sorts out the logistics of relief

Braided Lives

From brutality, death, survival, and triumph, a family emerges

1948

From brutality, death, survival, and triumph, a family emerges

The Cabinet of Dr. Clinton

From brutality, death, survival, and triumph, a family emerges

LEFT FOR DEAD

Nguyen Cao Son and his fellow South Vietnamese soldiers were part of a secret U.S. spy commando force--so secret, in fact, that the American government turned its back and let him spend 14 years in North Vietnamese prison camps.

Foreign Affairs

Bill Clinton's Indonesian connection brought him campaign cash in exchange for influence--and continued inaction on the country's notorious human rights abuses.

Welfare as We've Never Known It

Calculating the real impact of the welfare bill for Minnesota.

PARTNERS IN CRIME

A Clinton Scandals Primer

Atun Alba:

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade