Good morning, Minnesota. Happy Tuesday!

Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕

WEATHER

🥶 Tuesday will likely be the coldest morning of this winter in the Twin Cities and most of Minnesota. And it could go down as the coldest day in the last three or four years.

🌡️ A warm front will bring a more comfortable Wednesday, then a cold front takes another hit to temperatures Wednesday night. This system also brings light snow with a possible dusting.

Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

Court cases could shape — or reshape — where Minnesota Legislature heads next

The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments this week over whether the Republican-only start to session in the House is lawful. Two court decisions late last week have also set the stage for more partisan standoffs.

All of the Day 1 executive actions Trump has announced so far

President Trump on Monday signed a flurry of executive orders, memorandums and proclamations after his inauguration, reversing many of his predecessors' policies and reinstating actions from his first term in office. He signed the first batch in front of a packed crowd at Capital One Arena, drawing cheers, before then moving to the Oval Office to sign more.

NEWS ROUNDUP

🏃‍♂️‍➡️ For Duluth area ultra runner Michael Koppy, age is irrelevant. At 74, the ultra-athlete is aiming to become the oldest runner ever to finish the Arrowhead 135 — a grueling race, longer than five marathons back-to-back, across northern Minnesota through the dead of night, often in subzero temperatures.

🥶 Extreme cold leads to school delays, cancellations Tuesday across Minnesota. The arctic cold snap that remains entrenched across the Upper Midwest has prompted some school districts in Minnesota and neighboring states to cancel classes on Tuesday.

📝 Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President Biden. In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action ends a decades-long push by activists who argued that the 80-year-old was wrongly convicted.

✨ Red River Valley woman helps immigrants chase the American dream. Fowzia Adde knows inspiration can come from the darkest times. Seven years spent in a refugee camp in Kenya as a teenager fuels her drive to help immigrants succeed in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

🚒 Strong Santa Ana winds hitting fire-ravaged Los Angeles — again. As firefighters battle the Eaton and Palisades fires in Southern California, strong Santa Ana winds are hitting the fire-ravaged region again, posing renewed risks for the fires to spread and for new ones to spark.

🏛️ Trump issues pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The pardons fulfilled Trump’s promise to release supporters who tried to help him overturn his election defeat four years ago. “These are the hostages,” he said while signing the paperwork in the Oval Office.

📜 What is an executive order? A look at Trump's tool for quickly reshaping government. An incoming president signing a flurry of executive orders is standard practice. Executive orders allow a president to wield power without action from Congress. But there are also limits to what orders can achieve.

🏔️ Trump promises new names: 'Gulf of America' and 'Mount McKinley.' President Trump pledged to change the name of two natural landmarks: the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" and Mount Denali in Alaska back to its former official name, "Mount McKinley." Can he do that?

⚡ Trump plans to declare a 'national energy emergency.' What does that mean? President Trump is making energy a top priority on his first day in office, pledging to declare a national emergency – which no president has ever done before. The implications aren't clear.

📄 Trump to make historic move towards revoking birthright citizenship. Trump wants to reinterpret the phrasing "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" to mean that the federal government would not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status.

🚀 It's America's 'Manifest Destiny' to plant a flag on Mars, Trump says. President Trump vowed to send astronauts to Mars during his second inaugural address. "We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars," he said, promising to send astronauts to plant the American flag on Mars.

MUST LISTEN

🎧 Expert: Trump can't override Minnesota state law with executive orders. To put some of Trump’s promises into context and understand how that impacts Minnesota, Kathryn Pearson, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota, joined Minnesota Now.

🎧 Immigration lawyer: Trump's quick-moving deportation plans leave little time for people to understand their rights. Trump declared a national emergency at the U.S. southern border Monday and said he will begin deporting millions of immigrants without citizenship status. To help explain these policies, Minnesota Now spoke to Hanne Sandison, refugee and immigrant program director at The Advocates for Human Rights.

🎧 Sen. Amy Klobuchar on leading Inauguration Day proceedings. Klobuchar attended the Inauguration ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol Monday. Klobuchar chairs the bipartisan committee that has been planning the inauguration. She joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer Monday morning before the proceedings got underway.

🎧 Listen to today's headlines on our Minnesota Today podcast.

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