Local
New business aims to mend broken family trees, from Sweden to Minnesota
New business helps make genealogy links, guides tours for Minnesotans.
Music
Dutch government doing all it can to support family of slain Minn. blues musician
Mother expected to bring daughter's body home from Rotterdam this week.
Nation
Instagram was a bigger Russian election tool than Facebook, Senate report says
The troll farm that sought to divide Americans with misinformation and meme content around the 2016 election received more engagement on Instagram than it did on any other social media platform.
Nation
Russian 2016 influence operation targeted black voters
Researchers discovered many examples of the Russian operators building an audience with one theme and then shifting to another, often more provocative, set of messages.
East Metro
Suspect in fatal stabbing of Twin Cities musician is ID'd, appears in Dutch court
There was arguing in the room of the woman, who worked the blues scene in the Twin Cities as a drummer.
Inspired
Minnesota-based Reconciliation Project sends 10,000 books to Mosul
The city's prestigious university had been decimated by ISIS terrorists. The library's historical manuscripts, maps, documents and academic texts had been deliberately burned.
Local
Deportation proposal shakes Minnesota's Southeast Asian refugee community
Trump's deportation effort worries immigrants in Minnesota.
Brexit deal in turmoil as May postpones Parliament vote
Facing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to European Union leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement.
World
Wooed by Saudis, Kushner became influential friend
As the killing of Jamal Khashoggi set off a firestorm around the world, Jared Kushner became the crowd prince's most important defender inside the White House, people familiar with its internal deliberations say.
Local
Expectations high for Somalis in Minnesota after U.S. re-establishes permanent diplomatic ties
The U.S. hasn't had an embassy in Somalia for 27 years.
National
On this Trump trip, low drama, signs of acceptance
President Trump's foreign trips have tended to be drama-filled affairs, but on this one, for the often-undisciplined leader, the whirlwind trip was an unusual moment of calm.
Politics
Tariff tensions shadow US, Canada, Mexico trade pact signing
President Donald Trump signed a revised North American trade pact with the leaders of Canada and Mexico on Friday, declaring the deal a major victory for workers. But tensions over tariffs, looming GM layoffs and questions about the pact's prospects in Congress clouded the celebratory moment.
World
U.S., Canada, Mexico sign trade agreement
The U.S., Canada and Mexico signed the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday. This new agreement replaces NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement from the 1990s. US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto all spoke before the signing.
Business
Minnesota exports growing at a slower rate than earlier in year
Trade tariffs, strong U.S. dollar putting pressure on markets.
West Metro
Court filing: Twin Cities man faked death in $2M scheme by putting his clothes, ID on body
From Eastern Europe, he told prosecutors by phone in 2016 he'd rather live with his new love interest on apple farm.
Local
2018: Former University of Minnesota student settles study abroad rape lawsuit for $137,500
Student said she was raped, mistreated on trip.
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