| Good morning! Partly cloudy in central and northern Minnesota, sunny to the south. Highs in the teens to lower 20s. Well, on Thursday we found out (according to Punxsutawney Phil) that we're in store for six more weeks of winter. Bummer? Maybe not. That's just six more weeks to complete the Minnesota winter bucket list. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog |
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| GOP legislators are seeking to eliminate what some call a "patchwork" of city rules to provide sick leave and short-circuit the Minneapolis effort to raise the minimum wage beyond what the state mandates. | State lawmakers fighting Twin Cities labor measures |
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| Mushkaad Abdi, 4, was initially blocked from coming to the U.S. because of President Trump's refugee ban. | Who are Minnesota's refugees? |
| "Copper kills jobs," Steve Piragis, owner of Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, told the crowd in Duluth. "In Ely, we have hundreds of people who are employed in the business of fresh water, clean water, that brings people to us." | Nolan outreach to Trump administration on mining draws fire from McCollum |
| On Thursday the GOP-controlled House voted to overturn an Obama administration rule designed to keep firearms out of the hands of some people deemed mentally ill. |
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| The overwhelming majority of school districts surveyed in a new report said they did not have access to enough teachers of color. | NewsCut: Why can't Minnesota hold onto its teachers? |
| Kellyanne Conway cited a 2011 "massacre" in Kentucky that never happened as a reason why the administration's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations is necessary. |
| A knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" attacked French soldiers on patrol near the Louvre Museum Friday in what officials described as a suspected terror attack. |
| It's a shift from earlier comments by Trump, who had seemed to give Israel a green light to build more housing for Jewish settlers in areas the Palestinians hope will become part of a future state. Large companies in particular -- those that have always offered job-based medical coverage -- say a poorly thought-out replacement might turn out to be worse for them and their workers. Every night in February, Michelle Courtright is hosting vegetarian dinner parties to share the message that animals raised for food in Minnesota put more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere than passenger cars. | 23 signs of climate change in Minnesota The "Harry Potter" author has openly criticized President Donald Trump's immigration order, and not all of her fans are happy about it. | The Thread |
