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A St. John's University graduate could become President Obama's next chief of staff. Denis McDonough is currently one of the president's closest national security advisers.

President Barack Obama has signed legislation outlawing synthetic drugs, including a substance that led to the death of a Minnesota teen last year. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar sponsored the legislation.

President Barack Obama is visiting Minnesota to unveil a job initiative for veterans, and to attend fundraisers in Minneapolis. Obama is scheduled to speak at noon Friday at Honeywell's International Campus in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley.

The U.S. Senate has defeated competing Democratic and Republican plans to extend a cut in the payroll tax, that punts the issue over to the House. President Barack Obama and most Democrats want a payroll tax cut of 3.1%. Meanwhile, many Republicans would prefer to just extend the current 2% tax cut.

Liberty and Peace are getting a reprieve this year. Both are 19-week-old, 45-pound turkeys - their names selected from more than 100 submissions - that President Barack Obama pardoned in an annual Thanksgiving rite.

President Barack Obama saluted the veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan during a speech in Minneapolis today (Tuesday). We went to the American Legion Post 621 in St. Augusta today to get reaction to the President's speech.

President Barack Obama is tackling veterans' issues, including unemployment, during a speech at the American Legion national convention in Minneapolis.

One question President Barack Obama left a mystery during his town hall Monday: Why Cannon Falls? The locals still don't know -- but here are some images of the President's trip to River Country.

President Barack Obama told his Minnesota audience Monday that Washington needs to tone down the partisanship. There were more than just Democrats on hand to hear it.

Gov. Mark Dayton is asking President Barack Obama for a major federal disaster declaration after damages from Sunday's tornado have been estimated at over $16 million. Dayton says he sent a letter to Obama on Friday, asking for the declaration for Hennepin and Anoka Counties.