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Good morning! Mostly sunny with areas of fog early today. Highs in the mid-50s to lower 60s, except for near Lake Superior, where highs will reach the 40s. Let the warm weather be a reminder and warning to you that no ice -- if there is any left -- is safe anymore. That goes for up north, too. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog
 


Trump takes aim at a centerpiece of Obama's environmental legacy

The Trump administration aims to roll back the Clean Power Plan, which limits emissions from power plants, lift the moratorium on federal coal leases and change the "social cost of carbon" policy. | Environment

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Minnesota's teacher shortage: real, complicated

Filling critical jobs in high-need teaching areas has become a serious struggle across the state from small towns to suburbs. The challenges are nuanced, and not easy to solve. | Education

St. Paul OKs $2M to man wrongly bitten by police K-9

Lawyers for Frank Baker, a man badly injured by a St. Paul police dog last summer, say they've reached what could be a historic financial settlement for the city.

GOP divided over new course after House health care debacle

Republicans are pivoting to tax cuts and other issues but remain riven into factions and all over the map about how and when to return to their marquee pledge to eviscerate Obamacare. | Fact check: Trump says Obamacare is 'exploding.' It's not


 
 

Visit to WH grounds by intel chair clouds investigation

Devin Nunes' revelation prompted Democratic leaders to call on the Republican congressman to recuse himself from the committee's Russia probe. |

Effort to roll back ranked-choice voting in St. Paul moves forward

A St. Paul Charter Commission committee voted to put the question of voting methods to the entire Charter Commission.

Round 3: Environmental groups file another suit over 'sweetheart' PolyMet deal

Environmental groups have filed a third lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service, attempting to overturn the agency's January approval of a land exchange with PolyMet

Attorney general orders crackdown on 'sanctuary cities,' threatens holding funds

The Justice Department's order to withhold $4.1 billion in federal grants over immigration enforcement could affect major cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

107-year-old northern Minn. woman leaves behind stories of moonshine, priests

Elsye McGuire's early life reads like "Little House on the Prairie" -- if it were written for adults, and Pa ran an illegal moonshine still in the swamp behind his house. | The Thread

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