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Good morning! Sunny with highs in the highs 60s to low 70s. Meet Harvey and Irma. No, not the hurricanes. We're talking Harvey and Irma Schluter, a long-married couple who just happen to share the names of two pretty famous hurricanes. Their story is every bit as compelling as the ones surrounding their meteorological namesakes. | Forecast
 

Hurricane Irma slams Turks and Caicos on path to Florida

Irma weakened from a Category 5 storm to Category 4 on Friday morning with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph, but it remained a powerful hurricane. | Poor in Miami: Hoping to ride out Irma on bread and cans of tuna

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Deadly earthquake off southern Mexico triggers tsunami warning

A powerful earthquake hit off Mexico's southern coast, toppling houses in Chiapas state and causing buildings more than 600 miles away in Mexico City to sway violently. At least five people were reported killed.

Minn. overdose deaths averaged nearly 2 people a day last year

Opioid overdose alone took the lives of 376 people in the state in 2016, an increase of 12 percent. | Minnesota's opioid epidemic

Equifax says data from 143 million Americans exposed in hack

Credit monitoring company Equifax says a breach exposed social security numbers and other data from about 143 million Americans.

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Judge halts work on $2.1 billion Red River diversion project

The diversion plan calls for a large levee to be built south of Fargo-Moorhead to hold back flood waters from the Red River and divert them into a 30-mile-long channel around the cities

Appeals court rejects family limits in Trump travel ban

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday evening that the Trump administration can't ban grandparents and other family members of citizens and legal residents from coming to the U.S. from six mainly Muslim countries.

New co-op brings groceries, hope to north Minneapolis

It took 10 years, but a neighborhood food co-op is finally a reality. The doors are open now at Wirth Cooperative Grocery. Some, including an ex-NBA star from Minneapolis, hope it's the start of good things to come.

When current events were captured in paintings

The Minneapolis Institute of Art offers an exhibit of pictures that were meant to keep a contemporary record of important happenings in the 18th century. | Arts & Culture

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