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An election expert says the federal government doesn’t have the legal right to some of the data it’s requesting.

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Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

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Minneapolis City Council votes to study new ways to tax city's richest residents and businesses

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Target calls entire commercial unit back to Minneapolis HQ three days a week

Target employees were once again filing out of Target Corporate headquarters in Downtown Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon with boxes of personal belongings after Target Corp. announced they would be laying off about 550 employees who work in the Twin Cities as it continues to wind down its Canadian business.

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Duluth EPA lab employees put on leave after signing dissent letter

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Several employees signed letter, which decried EPA’s direction under Trump.

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Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

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Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

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CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos

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Ex-sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota and wife charged with trafficking, animal cruelty in Tennessee

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Opinion | Minnesota can lead again on refugees, just as Mondale did

Vice President Walter Mondale delivers his address to the Indochinese refugee conference of the United Nations in the Palais de Nations in Geneva on July 21, 1979.

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Opinion | Minnesota’s leaders are grieving. Let’s give them grace.

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Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

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Arts’ Nest and Zenon Dance School have ambitious plans for the venue, which has been shuttered for more than a year.

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Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

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The 50 highest paid CEOs made a total of $495.5 million. Still, that figure is down 23.6% from 2020.

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Target calls entire commercial unit back to Minneapolis HQ three days a week

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