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Gov. Mark Dayton addressed the media and some Republicans that were present as he said that the two sides were still not closeat the state capitol an hour left until a government shutdown. Minnesota state government shut down at 12:01 a.m. CDT Friday July 1, 2011 for the second time in six years after political leaders couldn't agree on how to solve a $5 billion budget deficit. (AP Photo Kyndell Harkness - STAR TRIBUNE) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Vulnerable feel the pinch of Minnesota shutdown

Amy Forliti, Martiga Lohn

Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP leaders have no plans for new talks before Tuesday

07/02/2011 15:19 EDT

Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their supporters attended a vigil at the State Capitol steps in St. Paul, Minn on Thursday night June 30, 2011. Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez - Star Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Minnesota government shuts down over budget

Patrick Condon, Martiga Lohn

Now the question on everyone's mind is "who's to blame?"

07/01/2011 14:05 EDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2011, after the policy lunches. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Senate to work next week on debt limit impasse

Jim Kuhnhenn

Lawmakers to miss July 4. recess for the sake of deficit talks

06/30/2011 14:50 EDT

President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama’s naive class warfare

Andrew Leonard

The president expresses completely unjustified confidence that Republicans will display "leadership" on taxes

06/29/2011 17:36 EDT

Flooding seeps into Nebraska nuclear plant

Nelson Lampe

Rising water has breached a turbine building at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, near Omaha

06/27/2011 15:35 EDT

This March 16, 2011 photo shows steam rising from cooling towers at Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. Illinois has six nuclear plants, with a total of 11 reactors, more than any other state in the U.S. in 2010. Exelon, which has acknowledged violating Illinois state groundwater standards, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle state and county complaints over the tritium leaks in Illinois' Braidwood, Dresden and Byron sites. The NRC also sanctioned Exelon. (AP Photo/Robert Ray) (AP)

Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites

Jeff Donn

AP investigation finds that radioactive material has leaked from 75 percent of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants

06/21/2011 10:33 EDT

Evacuees in protective clothing wait for a substitute bus to come beside their disabled bus, after they returned for a a brief visit to their houses in the exclusion area, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located in the town. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Water cleanup stalled at crippled Japan nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi

Authorities halt efforts after detecting a sharp spike in radiation

06/18/2011 20:42 EDT

The richly earned humiliation of Newt Gingrich

Steve Kornacki

No one has ever endured such a terrible first month as a presidential candidate -- nor deserved to more

06/10/2011 13:10 EDT

Citigroup says hackers accessed credit card data

Kelvin Chan

Bank: Names, account numbers and contact information for tens of thousands of customers viewed

06/09/2011 12:07 EDT

“Intern Nation”: Are we exploiting a generation of workers?

Jacob Sugarman

An unpaid apprenticeship is a staple of recession America. Is this an outrage -- or a smart way of doing business?

05/29/2011 18:01 EDT

In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004. Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air. (AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ICELAND OUT (AP)

Ash from Icelandic volcano may disrupt flights

Meera Selva

Plume could affect UK travel as early as tonight; a similar cloud closed European airspace for five days last year

05/23/2011 14:20 EDT

Workers stand atop the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, as water seeps through, bottom, during an aerial tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the spillway is opened. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Louisiana readies to open spillway, flood Cajun country

Mary Foster, Holbrook Mohr

State will open Morganza Spillway for only second time ever in face of historic floods

05/14/2011 13:30 EDT

What we can learn from the story of TableTalk

Scott Rosenberg

The pioneering online community that I helped Salon create is shutting its doors, but its influence is everywhere

05/13/2011 12:01 EDT

John Boehner’s bogus debt ceiling bluff

Andrew Leonard

A hostage the GOP can't kill: Congress will not allow the U.S. government to default

05/10/2011 19:19 EDT

Police officers' protective suits, boots and helmets are placed on the ground while they rest after their recovery operation shift in the area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) (AP)

Japan won’t abandon nuclear power despite crisis

Mari Yamaguchi

Government has no plans to shut down more functioning nuclear reactors

05/08/2011 14:45 EDT

A volunteer girl from Tokyo works to clean the debris of a house in Higashimatsushima, northern Japan Saturday, April 30, 2011. She is a member of a Tokyo's volunteer group which helps earthquake and tsunami devastated areas on weekend. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Workers re-enter Japan nuclear reactor building

Tomoko A. Hosaka

First incursion since devastating earthquake a month-and-a-half ago

05/05/2011 13:30 EDT

The GOP’s permanent debt-ceiling revolution

Andrew Leonard

Grover Norquist's new master plan: Extort concessions from Democrats for debt-ceiling hostages every two months

04/29/2011 15:43 EDT

How swipe fee politics have crippled Washington

Andrew Leonard

In the midst of a lobbying war between banks and retailers, there's no time left for governing the country

04/28/2011 22:20 EDT

In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, a Japanese soldier is tested for radiation exposure at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan mulls a stricter evacuation zone near plant

Elaine Kurtenbach, Mari Yamaguchi

Japanese government may legally ban people from a 12-mile radius around crippled power plant

04/20/2011 12:37 EDT

Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Japan nuclear firm reveals plan to end crisis

Yuri Kageyama, Shino Yuasa

TEPCO, operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station, aims to stabilize plant within nine months

04/17/2011 16:07 EDT

Harry Potter and the network of neutrality

Michael Winship

All of us have to stay on our toes if we're to continue to have the Internet as a potent force for change

04/16/2011 01:01 EDT

The grief the GOP just brought on itself

Steve Kornacki

House Republicans just went on record supporting a radical overhaul of Medicare. No wonder Democrats are smiling

04/15/2011 18:50 EDT

Can NBC ever turn all of Thursday into Must-See TV?

Is NBC’s Thursday night lineup doomed?

Matt Zoller Seitz

With uncertain futures for "30 Rock" and "The Office," and a spate of bad sitcoms, the network should be worried

04/15/2011 14:15 EDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Shutdown-averting budget deal clears House

Andrew Taylor

Dozens of Tea Party nays don't deter passage of the compromise struck by Obama and GOP leaders last week

04/14/2011 20:43 EDT