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'Highly active' northern lights displays this weekend may be largest in 20 years

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The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Friday and Saturday, the first since 2005.
  • Expect clearer air this summer in Minnesota, thanks to a milder wildfire season
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Charges: Woman embezzled $1.5M from Minneapolis marketing firm, bought $50K Rolex, trip to Europe

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The design of the new state flag features an abstract shape of Minnesota, cast in a deep blue and topped with an eight-point star facing north.
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Flying new colors: Minnesota's redesigned state flag to make its debut at the State Capitol

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  • Minnesota's Capitol campus has 120 state flags that will be replaced with new design in May
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Minnesota pot growers sue state, seeking to legally sell their homegrown cannabis

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Minnesota Supreme Court: Pandemic emergency declaration OK under state law

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Body camera footage shows woman pointing gun at St. Paul officers before they return fire
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Nonprofit group wants to transform an empty Blaine building into Islamic school and mosque
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Donald Trump's Minnesota GOP dinner is on the same day as son Barron's graduation
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Ellie, 7, eats dinner with her mother, Meta Getman, at their home in Eden Prairie. Getman, a fertility coach, gave birth to Ellie and her twin, Addie,
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Ellie, 7, eats dinner with her mother, Meta Getman, at their home in Eden Prairie. Getman, a fertility coach, gave birth to Ellie and her twin, Addie, through in vitro fertilization.

IVF made motherhood possible for these Minnesotans. They want to protect that for others.

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Do not, under any circumstances, trade this man.
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Trade Ant!? Five things I was terribly wrong about with the Wolves.

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An upgrade on the usual breakfast sandwich from Animales Barbeque Co.: peppery, smoked pastrami, soft scrambled eggs and cheese on cheesy focaccia.

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Dan Cohen campaigning for mayor in 2013.
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He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87.

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Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons reprise their roles of Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler in the series finale of "Young Sheldon" on CBS.
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TV shows to watch: 'Big Bang' actors give 'Young Sheldon' a fitting send-off

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Minneapolis native Lu'Cye Patterson, left, has decided to transfer from Charlotte to play his final year of eligibility with the Gophers.
Sports

Charlotte hoops transfer Patterson returns home, commits to Gophers

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“College endowment managers no doubt feel beleaguered that pressing moral questions regularly end up on their desks,” writes Gary Sernovitz, an in

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