01/16/26: Mac Schneider served as the US Attorney for the District of North Dakota, and while working as an attorney in private practice, he also represented Grand Forks’ District 42 in the North Dakota Senate from 2008 to 2016.

At least six career prosecutors in the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney's office — including Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson — have resigned as the office continues to face pressure to treat the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer as an assault on a federal officer case. Read more.

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