| Good afternoon! NPR reporter David Folkenflik produced a story today examining how a Trump booster and a Fox News consultant conspired to create a phony story about the "murder" of a young aide for the Democratic National Committee. A report that is both "shocking and frightening," MPR News blogger Bob Collins writes. | NewsCut | Forecast |
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced in June he was extending the deadlines by at least one year while his agency studies and reconsiders the requirements. |
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| Prosecutors allege that Nguyen robbed a homeowner, fled from police, held a worker at a senior care facility at gunpoint and then shot and killed 48-year-old Beverly Cory on Saturday morning. |
"We couldn't even collude with our local offices," senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner reportedly told a group of congressional interns. | Kelly wins praise across the aisle, but bigger task is ahead |
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says vandals recently entered the Al Maghfirah cemetery in Castle Rock Township and spray-painted profanities and swastikas. |
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| Much of the western two-thirds of the state is in severe or extreme drought and many ranchers have no pastures for cattle now, and no hay to feed the cattle through the coming winter. |
There have been some improvements, but there are still tens of thousands of bridges nationwide that need to be fixed or replaced. Federal funding for such needs has remained flat. | Reporting, memories from the I-35W bridge collapse |
| President Donald Trump says Congress should be paying what the public pays when it comes to "Obamacare." But members of Congress already pretty much do. Here's a look at Trump's claim, and the reality. | Trump's tweets threaten to destabilize insurance markets |
An exploration of how genetic testing and ancestry research may allow us to learn our racial identity, our history, and our humanity. Former NPR host Michele Norris and sociologist Alondra Nelson offer some answers to the question, "Can DNA help us grapple with our past?" |
