'Forever' chemicals leave costly water problem in Bemidji, cities across the country

Minnesota legislators and student leaders believe the time is right to consider letting the state pay for two years at state colleges for middle- and lower-income students.

With Trump's halfhearted signature widely expected but hardly guaranteed, congressional leaders planned votes Thursday on the sweeping package. Passage first by the Republican-led Senate, then the Democratic-controlled House, was virtually certain, with sizable numbers of both parties' members set to vote "yes."

Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the special counsel in the Russia probe, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Satellite images show the amount of green vegetation on Earth increasing, despite deforestation. But some of the added greenery has a down side.