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TOP STORIES

• Will Santa have enough toys this holiday season? Toy companies are racing to get their products to retailers as they grapple with a severe supply network crunch that could mean sparse shelves for the crucial holidays.
• White House restoring environmental reviews for big projects: In the latest reversal of a Trump-era environmental rollback, President Joe Biden is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines.
• Student opens fire at Texas high school: Four people were injured this morning when a student opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school during a fight, police said.
• Facebook finds cause of outage: The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said.
• Hormel in plant-based meat venture: Minnesota-based food giant Hormel is taking a new step with plant-based meats in a venture with Better Meat, a California company that specializes in proteins from potato fermentation.

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Don't be this driver: The Ohio Department of Transportation released footage showing a driver backing up on an interstate after missing their exit.

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TRENDING

• Short run for CHX in Uptown: After only 90 days with a storefront, CHX has closed its location in Uptown Minneapolis. The restaurant had taken a chance on brick-and-mortar after starting as a successful ghost kitchen.
• New York-style pizza for walk-up traffic: A new pizza-by-the-slice shop called Slice is now open on East Hennepin in northeast Minneapolis.
• Neal Justin's 10 greatest 'Seinfeld' episodes: "Seinfeld" repeats migrated to Netflix on Oct. 1, meaning a new generation of fans have a chance to get introduced to an American classic. But where to begin?

SPORTS ROUNDUP

• Picked last in the Big Ten: The Gophers have been picked to finish 14th in the unofficial Big Ten men's basketball preseason media poll.
• Future is now for Gophers: Gophers men's basketball freshmen Treyton Thompson and Laye Thiam are making "huge strides" in preseason workouts.
• Secret of Vikings' success or failure: The coin toss? A reader sent Michael Rand down a rabbit hole, trying to make heads or tails of the Vikings' fortunes. And what an adventure that was.

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Secret trove illuminates live of billionaires: The Pandora Papers provide new details about more than 130 billionaires, revealing how the very wealthy avoid taxation and other obligations while millions live in poverty..

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Oct. 6, 2013: Supreme Court Justice Alan Page serenaded runners with music from his sousaphone at the Twin Cities Marathon as they passed through the Kenwood neighborhood in Minneapolis. (Photo: Jim Gehrz/Star Tribune)