Good morning! Welcome to Monday. Mostly cloudy and breezy, with highs in the 50s. Snowflakes later this week? It's possible. Well, never say never. At least right away. Now that St. Paul has decided not to build an ice palace for the Super Bowl, Detroit Lakes is stepping up . The northwestern Minnesota town had planned to provide 24,000 blocks of ice to St. Paul, and build a much smaller ice structure themselves. Now they plan to use around 1,000 blocks for a palace. "Once it came out that they weren't going to do it at all, we were thinking what do we do? Do we scrap it completely?" said Amy Stearns, with Detroit Lakes' Ice Harvest committee. "And we were like, no, that's not who we are in Detroit Lakes. And we were like, we can do an ice palace, can't we?" | Forecast
No Democrat has won the 3rd Congressional District seat since 1958. But four hopefuls have lined up to take on five-term Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen whose district has become swing turf in recent elections.
Friends and co-workers gathered in the gymnasium of a Bloomington mosque on Sunday evening to memorialize 50-year-old Ahmed Eyow, who was killed in last week's bombing in Mogadishu.
In an interview on C-SPAN, the Arizona senator criticized "high income" Americans who avoided the draft by finding a doctor who "would say that they had a bone spur."
Stories pile up about real-life activity linked to Russian influence-mongers, senators pitch new law on digital political ads and committee hearing postponed for Trump's longtime personal lawyer.
"This isn't about the Vikings," said organizer Mel Reeves. "It's not about the flag, it's not about the anthem, it's simply about trying to bring attention to this national problem."
Public hearings on a proposed new rule designed to protect wild rice from sulfate pollution discharged from wastewater treatment plants, taconite mines and other industry get underway in St. Paul on Monday.
Chicory root. Bamboo. Soy fiber: Manufacturers can use these to add fiber to foods. Critics say this makes snack foods seem healthy. FDA will decide if these can count as fiber on nutrition labels.
