Major winter storm takes aim at Minnesota

Native American leaders say a coordinated lobbying effort on the 2018 farm bill has paid off, with unprecedented provisions that will benefit tribal nations across the country.

Investigators are searching for a man they believe shot two people on the Iron Range on Christmas day. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the shooting occurred at 7:30 p.m. in Hibbing.

Shortly after noon Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were up about 2 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was also having a good day, up 2.8 percent.

When the year began, there were 17 confirmed cases, all isolated around Preston. But two more cases were found in the early archery season before rifle hunters racked up about a dozen more. The most troubling part is that the new cases were discovered miles from the core of the infected zone.

President Trump's claims over Christmas that he had awarded 115 miles of new border wall construction in Texas appear to confuse work that's already funded and underway.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency's care this month.

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