Good morning! We're still looking at mild weather today. Expect the skies to be mostly cloudy with a high of 35. But the cold weather is expected to arrive in the metro areas on Friday. Legendary Twin Cities musician Willie Murphy has died at age 75. The Star Tribune reported that the R&B singer-songwriter died Sunday after suffering health issues over the past year. Murphy was part of the Minnesota music scene for decades and fronted the band Willie and the Bees, entertaining countless fans. | What's on MPR News today? | Forecast
When Democrats took control of the U.S. House from Republicans it put two Minnesotans who have been in Congress a long time in more powerful positions.
On Friday, a community feast was held to mark the end of the homeless encampment along Franklin and Hiawatha avenues and the beginning of a new chapter for everyone involved.
Congress returns to Washington for its first full week of legislative business since control of the House reverted to Democrats, but lawmakers will be confronted with the same lingering question: When will the partial government shutdown end?
President Trump's denials follow a Washington Post report Saturday that "U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump's face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years."
The former attorney general, nominated to return to run the Justice Department, backed President George H.W. Bush's decision to pardon ex-Reagan officials caught up in an earlier imbroglio.
A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration rule that would greatly expand the number of employers that could decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds.
