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 Photos: Landing on a frozen Minnesota lake? These Forest Service pilots are cool with it
Snow and ice aren’t ideal conditions to take off or land an airplane, but they’re business as usual for pilots who fly through the winter out of the U.S. Forest Service seaplane base in Ely — the only Forest Service seaplane base in the country. 
Minnesotans among those pardoned for Jan. 6 riots on President Trump’s first day
The president’s move halted a trial for two southern Minnesota men that had been underway in Washington D.C., and it erased the criminal convictions of another seven people who took part in the insurrection.
Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law alleges abuse against second wife in affidavit to Senate
Senators vetting the nomination of Minnesotan Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit Tuesday from a former sister-in-law alleging that the onetime Fox News host was abusive to his second wife, to the point where she feared for her safety. Hegseth denies the allegations.
U.S. throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools, churches
Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.
Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new ‘Golden Age’?
In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals. His new “Golden Age” was brimming with the stories that shaped the nation’s history. 
Trump gave pardons to hundreds of violent Jan. 6 rioters. Here's what they did
On his first day in the White House, President Donald Trump gave commutations and pardons to every defendant charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Many assaulted police.
Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections
The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."