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Franken said the accusation is “categorically not true, and the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous.” Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison ...
Franken is accused by multiple women of groping and forcibly kissing them. — -- Sen. Al Franken is set to make an announcement Thursday, according to his office, as more than a dozen ...
On Monday afternoon, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken apologized. “I know that I’ve let a lot of people down, people of Minnesota, my colleagues, my staff, my supporters, and everyone who has counted ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) --Following weeks of accusations made against him, Sen. Al Franken has announced he is stepping down at the end of the year. "I am proud that during my time the Senate I have ...
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, announced on Thursday he will soon be resigning from the U.S. Senate, following a wave of calls for his resignation from his Democratic colleagues. Multiple women ...
Why former Sen. Al Franken says he regrets his resignation In 2017, Leann Tweedon accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of forcing a kiss on her a decade before. Seven additional women soon came ...
A chorus of Franken's colleagues called for his resignation Wednesday. — -- Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will resign from the United States Senate "in the coming weeks" he announced Thursday ...
Long before he became a senator, Al Franken was a liberal hero for the way he stuck it to Republicans. And so it was perhaps inevitable that, even as he resigned from the Senate in disgrace this ...
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has told the nation in an extraordinary address that he will resign from the Senate in coming weeks. The dramatic announcement Thursday came after eight women accused ...
That’s the upshot of a carefully reported New Yorker piece titled “The Case of Al Franken,” in which friends and fans of the erstwhile senator from Minnesota bemoan his downfall. The ...
As sexual harassment allegations against Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, consumed Thursday's news cycle — pushing far more serious allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy ...
Al Franken is headed back to the White House — well, sort of. The former politician, 73, appears in the new murder mystery series, “The Residence,” and portrays fictional senator Aaron Filkins.