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Catholics are remembering Pope Francis after his death Monday. At the same time, they’re thinking about what comes next for the church. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the state of Minnesota seeking to revive the state’s ban on gun-carry permits for young adults.
This morning's mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul started with a moment of silence for Pope Francis, who passed away earlier today. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter says the city is making progress on its goal to bring 20,000 new residents to downtown.
Pope Francis has died. He was history’s first Latin American pontiff. He was 88. The Vatican made the announcement today, a day after the Pope appeared in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. 
Meat packing workers demonstrated outside the JBS Plant in Worthington on Thursday over safety concerns. Two men hoping to stave off government efforts to deport them remain in custody in Minnesota.
For the fifth year in a row, more than half of Minnesota's electricity came from carbon-free sources, according to a new clean energy report. The Minnesota Department of Health has updated its advice on how much fish is safe to eat from certain lakes with so-called "forever chemicals."
Mayo Clinic is changing the name of its Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. Protesters outside El Salvador’s consulate in St. Paul yesterday demanded the return of a man mistakenly deported from the U.S. to a prison in that Central American country.
An international student at the University of Minnesota has sued the Department of Homeland security. And St. Paul-based Ecolab says it's imposing a 5 percent trade surcharge on its products and services sold in the U.S. The company says it's making the move to mitigate rising raw material costs as a result of Trump administration tariffs.
The Minnesota Department of Health is giving some laid-off employees a temporary reprieve with a delay. And Keri Heintzeman easily defeated seven other Republican candidates to win a special primary election for a vacant state Senate seat in north-central Minnesota.
A man was arrested yesterday after allegedly threatening violence against the United Healthcare corporate campus in Minnetonka. And an oil pipeline that ruptured a week ago in North Dakota is returning to service.
A Marshall man jailed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is speaking out, saying he’s being detained because he protested police killings four years ago. And Republicans in north-central Minnesota are choosing a nominee for a vacant state Senate seat.