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    October 1, 2017
    Romelle Jones poses for a photograph outside the red door, one of her favorite features of Art's Cafe that she owned 10 years ago. Jones backed the clean air act when it began. (Jamie Lund / Forum News Service)
    She was a clean air pioneer:How ‘freedom to breathe’ in Minnesota started in Moose Lake
    MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — A slender woman with short gray hair sat in a booth at Art's Cafe, holding a cup of steaming coffee with both hands....
    newsOctober 1, 2017 - 6:00am
    September 30, 2017
    LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Say ‘no’ to Republican tax-reform and Trump
    The tax-reform bill the Republicans are putting together would give tax breaks to the wealthiest people and largest corporations in this country...
    opinion/lettersSeptember 30, 2017 - 11:30am
    September 29, 2017
    File photo of Oprah Winfrey at the DVF Awards in the United Nations building, March 9, 2012. (Emily Berl/copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Oprah just teased a run for president in 2020
    I don't know if Oprah Winfrey is actually thinking about running for president in 2020. I do know that she really seems to want us to talk about...
    opinionSeptember 29, 2017 - 11:32am
    File photo of Scott Pruitt testifying at his Senate confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 18, 2017. (Gabriella Demczuk/ copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Trump told Iowa he'd save ethanol. His EPA chief has other ideas
    As he sought votes during last year's Iowa caucuses, candidate Donald Trump courted farmers with praise for ethanol and promises that he would...
    newsSeptember 29, 2017 - 7:06am
    September 28, 2017
    Rebecca Otto speaks during a candidate forum featuring DFL candidates for governor at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet Wednesday evening. Other candidates at the forum were Tim Walz, Erin Murphy, and Tina Liebling. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service
    DFL governor candidates make early pitch in Minn. governor's race
    CLOQUET, Minn. — Four people passed microphones across a table, sometimes echoing one another, sometimes striking out on their own. One...
    newsSeptember 28, 2017 - 10:03am
    September 27, 2017
    President Donald Trump while delivering an address about tax reform in the Farm Bureau Building at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Sept. 27, 2017. Trump on Wednesday began a full-throttle push to slash taxes, proposing a politically challenging array of tax cuts for individuals and businesses that would constitute the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades. (Tom Brenner/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    GOP proposes deep tax cuts, provides few details on how to pay for them
    WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders on Wednesday proposed slashing tax rates for the wealthy, the middle class and businesses while preserving popular...
    newsSeptember 27, 2017 - 4:03pm
    GOP tax document reveals plan for massive tax cuts, preserves key deductions
    WASHINGTON - Republicans on Wednesday will propose slashing tax rates for the wealthy, middle class and businesses, while also preserving popular tax deductions that encourage buying homes and giving to charity, according to a nine-page document obtained by The Washington Post.
    newsSeptember 27, 2017 - 11:32am
    After Alabama, GOP anti-establishment wing declares all-out war in 2018
    The stunning defeat of President Donald Trump's chosen Senate candidate in Alabama on Tuesday amounted to a political lightning strike - setting the stage for a worsening Republican civil war that could have profound effects on next year's midterm elections and undermine Trump's clout...
    newsSeptember 27, 2017 - 8:16am
    September 26, 2017
    President Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.), who was appointed to temporarily fill the seat left vacant when Jeff Sessions became attorney general, in Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 22, 2017. Strange is facing former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. (Tom Brenner/ The New York Times)
    Trump's stump for 'Big Luther' fails in Alabama GOP Senate primary election
    A former state judge who believes Christian biblical morality should invalidate federal court decisions won the Alabama Republican primary Tuesday...
    newsSeptember 26, 2017 - 8:57pm
    President Donald Trump with Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, in Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 11, 2017. A crucial test of Haley’s influence on Trump will come this week during Trump’s maiden visit to the United Nations, the organization he has repeatedly pilloried and whose very reason for being he has dismissed with his promise of “only America first.” (Al Drago//Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Trump expected to set U.S. refugee cap at 45,000
    WASHINGTON - The Trump administration plans to cap the number of refugees admitted to the United States in the coming year at 45,000, two people...
    newsSeptember 26, 2017 - 7:58pm
    Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) speaks beside former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his Graham-Cassidy health proposal, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 25, 2017. (Al Drago/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Obamacare repeal in U.S. Senate collapses as Republicans falter
    WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans decided Tuesday not to hold a vote on unwinding the Affordable Care Act, effectively preserving the landmark...
    newsSeptember 26, 2017 - 1:50pm
    September 25, 2017
    Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his Graham-Cassidy health proposal, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 25, 2017. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Monday that she would oppose the latest plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving Republican leaders clearly short of the votes they need for passage. (Al Drago/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill appears doomed after Collins says no
    WASHINGTON - A last ditch Republican effort to repeal Obamacare appeared doomed late on Monday after Senator Susan Collins became the third Republican...
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 7:48pm
    U.S. bombers combine with South Korean and Japanese aircraft in a show of force over the Korean Peninsula on Sept. 17. Staff Sgt. Steven Schneider, Defense Department.
    North Korea says U.S. 'declared war,' warns it could shoot down U.S. bombers
    North Korea's foreign minister on Monday, Sept. 25, asserted that the pariah state has the right to defend itself by shooting down U.S. planes,...
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 5:15pm
    Anthony Weiner, a former congressman and mayoral candidate, arriving at federal court for his sentencing, in New York, Sept. 25, 2017. Weiner, who became caught up in a scandal over his exchange of lewd texts with a 15-year-old girl, was sentenced on Monday to 21 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, and had faced up to 10 years in prison. (John Taggart/The New York Times)
    Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in federal prison
    Disgraced former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner, whose exchange of illicit messages with a teen wound up playing a role in the 2016 presidential...
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 10:38am
    Jared Kushner, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, and his wife, Ivanka Trump, with their son Theodore James Kushner, follow the president to Marine One as they depart for Camp David from the White House in Washington, Aug. 25, 2017. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times
    Trump's son-in-law used private email account for some White House business
    President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has used a private email account to conduct and discuss official White House...
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 10:16am
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