| Good morning! Sunny and colder today, with highs ranging from the single digits up north to the midteens south. Well, it looks like winter is (still) coming. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today, which means we're in for six more weeks of cold weather. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog |
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| Lori Swanson, the state attorney general, has joined a lawsuit alleging that President Trump's halt on immigration from seven countries is unconstitutional. | Confusion continues over who can travel and why nearly a week after Trump's order | Who are Minnesota's refugees? |
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| Jurors turned aside arguments by Allen Scarsella's attorney that the 24-year-old Bloomington man shot in self-defense as he and other companions were pursued by a group of protesters near the Minneapolis 4th Precinct police station. |
| Here's a look at the legal steps that remain before the last section of pipe can be laid and the final options to stop it. | FAQ: The Dakota Access pipeline and protest |
| Xcel is asking the Legislature to allow it to build a natural gas power plant in Becker to make up for some of the electric generation that will be lost when two of the Sherco coal plant units retire by 2026. Both clean energy advocates and utility customers are showing skepticism. | Environment |
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| U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan has asked the federal government to reverse an Obama administration decision to block minerals exploration and mining in more than 234,000 acres of the Superior National Forest near the BWCA. |
| Protesters smashed windows and started a bonfire during a demonstration against an appearance by the far-right, self-described provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor with Breitbart News. |
| "The Radius of Us" is about a young asylum seeker from El Salvador, and "Something in Between" follows a high schooler who's devastated when learns she and her family are living in the U.S. illegally. | The Thread |
| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants more flexibility in deciding whom to quarantine and why. But critics say the changes the agency has proposed raise civil liberties questions. A new Pew Research Center study finds some big differences among respondents when it comes to connecting citizenship to language, faith and country of origin. |
