October 9, 2026 7:20 pm
(The Center Square) – Federal authorities announced Wednesday that they had thwarted a Minnesota man’s plot to carry out a “mass-shooting event in support of ISIS” at the Mall of America. Announced on the three-year anniversary of the terror attacks of Oct. 7, 18-year-old Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud is facing one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition in order ...
(The Center Square) – Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya are neck and neck in the most-recent polling of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. Flanagan, a Democrat, leads Tafoya 44.8% to 43.3%, according to the average of the four most-recent polls compiled by 270toWin. There is a wider gap in the Minnesota gubernatorial race, with Democrat U.S. ...
(The Center Square) – Fraud could cost federal taxpayers as much as $521 billion annually, according to a Foundation for Government Accountability report citing a federal estimate. The report estimates that improper payments by the federal government have totaled about $3 trillion since 2003. Liesel Crocker, the report’s author and senior research fellow at FGA, spoke with The Center Square ...
(The Center Square) – Minnesota ranked 33rd nationally in a new report from The Heritage Foundation on “education freedom.” The state’s ranking on education choice brought its score down significantly, coming in at 44th. Jonathan Butcher, the conservative think tank’s acting director at its Center for Education Policy, explained the low rankings in an exclusive interview with The Center Square. ...
