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Good morning! Sunny, with highs in the 30s. Here's a video to remember the next time you look in your rearview mirror and see a semi that's pulled up within a few feet of your rear bumper while you're barreling down the highway. It shows a drunken driver who was drunk he fell out of the cab. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog
 


Guled Omar: The path to ISIS and the story you haven't heard

Federal prosecutors have deemed him unfixable and irredeemable. He got the harshest sentence of any of the nine Twin Cities men who tried to join ISIS. But Omar's story is much more complicated than that. | Called to Fight

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Southwest LRT proposal gets permission to start engineering work

The Metropolitan Council could begin awarding construction contracts in June. Planners expect the line to open in 2021.

Feds accuse 6 chiropractors in scam to bilk auto insurers

Twenty-one people were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in what federal authorities described Wednesday as separate schemes that defrauded auto insurance companies out of more than $20 million.

Europe scrambles to find Tunisian suspect in Berlin attack

Authorities issued a wanted notice for Anis Amri and offered a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($104,000) for information leading to his arrest, warning that he could be "violent and armed."


 
 

Parishioner arrested in November arson of black church in Mississippi

On Nov. 1, a church in Greenville, Miss., was torched and "Vote Trump" was painted on a wall. Now a member of that church has been charged with arson. Officials have not provided a motive.

Trump's businesses could be tripped up by 2012 insider trading law

The STOCK Act bars presidents and members of Congress from trading securities based on the kind of insider information they routinely have access to.

Latinos will never vote for a Republican, and other myths about Hispanics from 2016

There were expectations that Donald Trump would do worse with Latino voters than any candidate in history, but that didn't happen. | Election 2016

Knowing someone who faced discrimination may affect blood pressure

Seeing someone close to you experience racial discrimination may have more of an effect on health than experiencing that discrimination yourself, a study finds.

Wikipedia announces its most edited articles of 2016

Entries that made the list range from the obvious to the outlandish.

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