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The song was inspired by the Hank Williams song “Honky Tonk Blues,” and written while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were staying at a horse ranch in Brazil.
Four things to watch as Amy Klobuchar takes the debate stage
The one-night debate in Houston on Thursday puts Minnesota’s U.S. senator on the stage with all the front-runners in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Likely tornado, high winds cause damage in South Dakota
Severe weather including a tornado hit central Sioux Falls, where authorities closed streets and delayed school for two hours Wednesday as they assessed the damage.
 'Suicide by cop' is in the eye of the beholder
"Suicide by cop” is a common conclusion in fatal police shootings. But there’s a lack of criteria for that determination. So, the question of whether someone died because of a suicidal provocation of police or a cop overreacting is up for grabs.
Debate over medically assisted suicide returns to State Capitol
A Minnesota House committee takes up legislation legalizing medically assisted suicide under certain conditions.
Over 14 years, Fargo gardens grow community
A project called Growing Together is helping new Americans in Fargo access healthy food — but the gardeners involved say it’s also building relationships between lifelong North Dakotans and refugees who came to Fargo from around the world.
Hunters who kill a deer in certain regions of the state will need to get a sample from the deer tested for chronic wasting disease, or CWD. There are also carcass movement restrictions in place for those areas.
In addition to touring with the album, the band marked the anniversary by having the album encoded into DNA and then loaded into a can of spray paint. That can was featured in an exhibition on artificial intelligence at an art museum in London.