Good morning, Minnesota. Welcome to Monday.

Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕

WEATHER

☀️ Temperatures will be back to 20-30 degrees above normal Monday. Highs will be in the low 80s in southern Minnesota and in the 70s north.

🌧️ A cool front Tuesday will move across the state late in the day. It will bring the chance of some scattered light rain showers.

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New York Liberty win first WNBA championship, beating Minnesota 67-62 in OT

The WNBA Finals came down to a winner-take-all Game 5. The New York Liberty came out on top Sunday night, beating the Minnesota Lynx 67-62 in overtime. It's the first time New York has won the championship.

Minnesota Lynx fans celebrate historic year for women’s sports despite WNBA Finals loss

It was a record-breaking season for the WNBA. The first three games each had over a million viewers on average, with the audience growing for each contest. The series set both the overall attendance record for a WNBA Finals as well as the average attendance mark.

Pair of suburban-centered Minnesota congressional districts attract differing levels of attention

They’re adjacent Minnesota congressional districts with suburban populations at their core. One features a Democratic incumbent with a well-stocked campaign account; the other is an open seat that not long ago was seen as Republican turf. But only one has been on national watchlists for U.S. House races this year.

NEWS ROUNDUP

🔥 East-central Minnesota wildfire continues to burn in Chengwatana State Forest. A state forest in central Minnesota remains closed Monday due to an active wildfire. The closure affects 4,500 acres of forest in Pine and Chisago counties. The fire is around 167 acres and is estimated to be 10 percent contained.

🏈 Lions top previously unbeaten Vikings in NFC North thriller. The Minnesota Vikings lost their first game of the season to the Detroit Lions, 31-29. Jake Bates kicked a 44-yard field goal with 15 seconds left to lift the Detroit Lions to a victory in a back-and-forth game befitting of the NFL’s strongest division.

📱Show and tell: New interactive tour aims to raise Dakota visibility in Minneapolis. A new self-guided walking tour highlighting Dakota history at Owamni or St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis is now live. Visitors can scan QR codes at five designated spots to learn about the sacred area through an Indigenous lens.

🎤 8,000 fans flock to Mall of America to see global K-pop-style girl group KATSEYE. The six-member group, managed by K-pop music giant HYBE and American music label Geffen, consists of members from the United States, Philippines, Switzerland and South Korea.

💼 The U.S. is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel's attack plans. The documents note that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran's blistering ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1.

MUST LISTEN

🎧 Minneapolis, St. Paul birders drop 'Audubon' from chapter names. John James Audubon was a groundbreaking artist, naturalist and ornithologist whose work is still widely used today, but was funded by the slave trade. He’s also accused of plagiarism, academic fraud and other “despicable things,” the society says.

🎧Celebrity photographer turns Mankato into a portrait studio for everyday people. When Josh Madson moved back to Minnesota during the pandemic, he didn’t expect to embark on one of his largest projects yet. He found himself in Mankato where he was inspired to create a large-scale photo collage of more than 5,000 people from the city he now calls home.

🎧 Winner of 3M Young Scientist Challenge invents AI pesticide detector for produce. 14-year-old Sirish Subash — a ninth-grader from Snellville, Ga. — was crowned the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge contest in St. Paul this week. He picked up a cash prize of $25,000 and the lesson that moms are always right.

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