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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

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Saturday's deer opener brings expanded testing for chronic wasting disease

Saturday's deer opener brings expanded testing for chronic wasting disease

More than 400,000 hunters are expected to participate in the Minnesota deer hunting season this year. Hunters can expect expanded testing for chronic wasting disease and restrictions on the movement of killed deer, all aimed at limiting the spread of the disease that is always fatal in deer.
by Dan Gunderson

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Founder: Twin Cities Con is a judgment-free zone for all ages

Founder: Twin Cities Con is a judgment-free zone for all ages

Thousands will flock to the Minneapolis Convention Center starting Friday for the third-annual Twin Cities Con — Minnesota's Comic Con. Founder Ben Penrod says there's something for everyone.
by Gracie Stockton and Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: Art meets vinyl

Art Hounds: Art meets vinyl

Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists exhibit opens at AICHO Galleries in Duluth. Mayo Clinic presents An Evening with Michael Feinstein and a discussion of music’s effect on the brain and memory this Saturday in Rochester. The Da Da Duende Record Club, new this year, offers a quarterly zine and lathe-cut record to subscribers. 
by Emily Bright

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Trump on the ballot? 6 key questions ahead of Minnesota Supreme Court hearing

Trump on the ballot? 6 key questions ahead of Minnesota Supreme Court hearing

Oral arguments are scheduled for Thursday in a Minnesota case seeking to ban Donald Trump from ballots in 2024. It’s one of two cases likely to yield a quick result and possibly make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
by Dana Ferguson

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What’s old is new again: Iconic Rochester sign gets a ‘glow-up’

What’s old is new again: Iconic Rochester sign gets a ‘glow-up’

For more than 50 years, the Kahler Grand Hotel’s neon red sign has lit up the sterile gray skyline of Mayo Clinic’s downtown Rochester campus. Now the iconic beacon is getting a “glow-up.”
by Catharine Richert

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In Minnesota, Biden touts rural renewal, American resilience

In Minnesota, Biden touts rural renewal, American resilience

President Joe Biden used a Northfield-area farm on Wednesday as a backdrop to spotlight his administration’s efforts to bolster the nation’s rural economy. Presidential politics and the Israel-Hamas war followed him to Minnesota.
by Dana Ferguson

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Southeast Minnesota struggles for common ground on nitrate pollution as health worries rise

Southeast Minnesota struggles for common ground on nitrate pollution as health worries rise

In a petition filed in April, environmental groups asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use its emergency powers under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act to intervene in what they call an “imminent and substantial endangerment to human health.”
by Kirsti Marohn

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Dean Phillips works New Hampshire streets for presidential bid

Dean Phillips works New Hampshire streets for presidential bid

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips is courting New Hampshire voters this week. He'll hold his first town hall as a presidential candidate Wednesday in Manchester.
by Mark Zdechlik

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150,000 victims lost $300M to decades-long telemarketing scam

150,000 victims lost $300M to decades-long telemarketing scam

Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis are expected to rest their case Monday in the trial of three people charged in the wide-ranging fraud. Authorities say victims across the country unwittingly signed up for magazine subscriptions that they did not want. Some lost tens of thousands of dollars.
by Matt Sepic

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