| Good morning! Rainy and cold today, with highs in the 50s and 60s. Was there ever a time when you got a little cash with no strings attached and it made a huge difference? Or when you wished for a tiny windfall to tackle a problem? NPR asked ... and got plenty of answers. One person used it as seed money to pay for carpenter tools and gas money. Another used it to pay her childbirth bill. One woman used a $100 gift to apply for medical school. | Forecast |
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| Food shelves have put a lot of effort into getting more donated fresh produce on their shelves, and it's paying off. In southwestern Minnesota, gardeners like Dennis Stelter, 83, are delivering in a big way. | Where to donate your homegrown produce to food shelves |
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| For years, the Minneapolis-based retail giant kept overhead background music out of most of its stores. But that's changing as it moves ahead with a massive store remodeling project and tries to revive flagging sales. | Related: Target stocks up on staff, raising holiday hiring 40 percent |
As of Monday morning, Maria had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. It's forecast to undergo "significant strengthening" over the next two days. |
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear mobilized in downtown St. Louis after another day of peaceful protests over an ex-police officer's acquittal in the death of a black man, a scene that grew ugly after nightfall amid dozens of arrests and reports of property damage and vandalism in the streets. |
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| A leaked memo from Ryan Zinke to President Trump recommends that two Utah monuments -- Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante -- be reduced, along with Nevada's Gold Butte and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou. Two marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean also would be reduced. |
In his first appearance as president, Trump on Monday was addressing a U.S.-sponsored event on reforming the 193-member organization he has sharply criticized. |
For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has weighed in on what teens and young adults (and their doctors and parents) need to know about safely getting piercings and tattoos. |
| Bob Hautman from Delano won the contest with his acrylic painting of a pair of mallards. Hautman's win this year makes it the 13th time he or one of his brothers have graced the duck stamps with their art. |
