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Year-round summer E15 is one step closer to reality after the House of Representatives approved a bill authorizing summer sales Wednesday evening. In a bipartisan vote that split members of both parties, lawmakers approved the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act by a margin of 218-203. The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces an uncertain future. President Donald Trump indicated he plans to sign the bill if it gets to his desk.
Key Takeaways
- The bicameral Let Kids Play Act, introduced May 13, 2026, automatically designates any private equity fund invested in youth sports as a “vulture investor” 91 days after enactment unless the firm files a sworn certification of compliance within 60 days.
- Designated firms would have two years to divest.
On Friday, May 8, Mayor Anne Burt and other Woodbury dignitaries participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the city’s new Public Safety Complex.
The project, expected to cost around $60 million, is a renovation and expansion of the current public safety building on Radio Drive.
The importance of the project, and the help received from Woodbury and Minnesota’s elected leaders, was evident in the range of public representatives present at the event.
Until Woodbury’s Public Safety Campus Project is complete, public safety services will temporarily run out of the former Washington County Service Center, Woodbury City Hall and other EMS and Fire stations in the city.
“It’s just so exciting,” Woodbury Mayor Anne Burt said. “It has taken many years to get to this point.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it will not release a Minnesota woman facing deportation on humanitarian parole to receive surgery to remove a painful, tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst at risk of causing severe medical complications.
'We've got to do better' congressional members demand at Camp East Montana
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig felt a wave of emotions as she walked through Camp East Montana on her first visit to the sprawling immigration detention center in El Paso.
Craig was not allowed to speak with anyone during her nearly two-hour oversight visit. But she could see the despair in the detainees' eyes.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig has confirmed that medical staff at ICE's El Paso service processing center have confirmed that her detained constituent, Andrea Pedro Francisco, has a large ovarian cyst after a ultrasound was performed.
Craig announced the confirmation after spending around 40 minutes with Pedro Francisco on Monday, May 4. The congresswoman from Minnesota traveled to El Paso to meet with the 23-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who had been detained during ICE's operations in the state.
EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig's visit to El Paso's Camp East Montana on Monday is raising questions about the medical care inside the detention facility, as the congresswoman calls for urgent medical care for a detained Minnesota woman with an ovarian cyst.
The Democratic congresswoman traveled to El Paso on Monday to tour the facility and visit 23-year-old Andrea Pedro-Francisco, who has been suffering from an ovarian cyst since before she was detained on Feb. 5 in Minnesota.
Immigration detention officials have confirmed that a Minnesota woman detained in El Paso for almost two months has an ovarian cyst, but haven’t provided information on how they plan to treat her, the detainee’s congresswoman said Monday.
During the Washington Watch event in Washington, D.C., Democrat Angie Craig addressed members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters to discuss the current legislative landscape. Representative Angie Craig expressed significant concerns regarding the proposed Farm Bill and its potential impact on the agricultural community and food assistance programs.