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Minneapolis dominates Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, but the district is also home to three-quarters of a million residents, about half of whom live in first-ring suburbs. DFL-endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar has represented this diverse district for two terms and is vying for a third against the strongest opponent she has faced to date: former Minneapolis City Council Member Don Samuels. After interviewing both and considering their records, the Star Tribune Editorial Board is endorsing Samuels in the Aug. 9 DFL primary.

Schools on Minnesota’s American Indian reservations are already suffering from the across-the-board budget cuts of the federal sequester, taking a hit months before the rest of the country’s classrooms will feel the effects of reduced funding. The White Earth Reservation could cut the school year short at its federally funded tribal school. The Red Lake School District, where the high school was the site of a shooting that left seven people dead in 2005, has scaled back its security staff. And school officials on reservations across the state have already slashed this year’s budgets in antici­pation of sequester cuts, packing...

On a day which has already seen an unprecedented number of contests, awards, and competitions surprisingly go his way, President B. Hussein Obama now has one more feather in his cap: the presidency of George W. Bush. The Florida Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court, in an extraordinary and highly unconstitutional joint session, have granted former Vice-President Gore's request for a targeted recount of the 2000 presidential election results in select Florida counties. Furthermore, the joint court has declared Obama to be the winner of the recount, thereby gaining all of Florida's electoral votes in the 2000 election. While...

A 3-year-old boy died Wednesday after being attacked by a dog at Camp Lejeune, Onslow Memorial Hospital spokesman Tim Strickland confirmed. The dog, a pit bull, attacked the child at Tarawa Terrace I, base spokesman 1st Lt. Craig Thomas said. The dog was captured and is being held at the Camp Lejeune kennel, Thomas said.