MPR News photos of the week: Beargrease, marriage bill drama, and celebrating a new pope

An excited dog from the team that belongs to marathon musher, Odin Jorgenson, of Grand Marais, Minn., as race official Michael Levig, left, looks on. Jorgenson calls the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon the "Superbowl of distance mushing in the lower 48." Nathan Schroeder of Chisholm won the race on Wednesday.
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