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Statewide highs in the mid 40s and upper 30s, except a little warmer on Lake Superior’s shore. Possible snow and freezing rain in the West, and windy in the metro.

He was only here for a couple hours, but President Trump made a mark in Minneapolis. 

The president’s first campaign speech since an impeachment inquiry began was at Target Center. As is common for Trump visits, protests began well before Air Force One landed and continued into the night. 

MPR News reporters were there for it all.

Trump managed to get in some tall tales during his stop here.

 They didn’t get past Briana Bierschbach and Brian Bakst. 

Here are some of the more glaring distortions of the truth uttered in Target Center last night.

 on how members of Minnesota’s Somali community viewed the president’s visit.

You can’t mess with the firefighters’ union, Brainerd. 

 after it sued the city for cutting all union fire-fighting jobs in favor of part-time, on call jobs.

At least that’s the hope for a group of land managers and scientists who are 

trying to figure out how Minnesota can harness its forests

 to get into the budding carbon sequestration market. Trees can store carbon, the prominent greenhouse gas driving climate change, and people will pay for their sequestration powers.

Vaping can be bad for more than just the lungs. 

, too. But the effects might not appear for years. "It's unfortunate that a whole generation of teenagers are basically guinea pigs for the effects of nicotine in the brain.”

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Plus a victory for the Brainerd firefighters’ union and some real fall weather on the way.

MPR News AM Update: Political attacks, protests at Trump rally

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