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Today on NewsCut: Steve Robson, a doctor in Australia, wrote last week about his days as an intern in in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton. He tried to take his own life and he unburdened himself last week from his shame of not using his experience to help others. Forecast | Election 2018: Voter guides
Minneapolis, St. Paul get Bloomberg boost to address climate change
Minneapolis and St. Paul joined cities from across the country Monday in a $70 million program designed to help them address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Killing of 2 at Kentucky supermarket is being investigated as hate crime

A white man charged with shooting and killing two African-Americans at a Kroger supermarket in Kentucky last week had first tried to enter a predominantly African-American church, police say.

Harrowing tales emerge from synagogue; suspect due in court

All three congregations at Tree of Life Synagogue were conducting Sabbath services when the attack began just before 10 a.m. Saturday. | Before shooting, anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise

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These are Minnesota's most-discussed politicians (and why popularity isn't always good)

While every Minnesota race is different, much of the most-discussed coverage focuses on political mudslinging rather than policy. MPR News ran searches for candidates in this year's highest-profile contests using the web analytics tool Buzzsumo. It monitors major social networks for frequency of shares, comments and likes a link gets.

Where Minnesota candidates stand on the issues
Minnesotans are voting in one of the most important elections the state has held in many years. Here is where the candidates stand on the important issues we face as a society. We also have the voter guide translated in Spanish, Hmong, and Somali.
'Just getting started': Delta celebrates Northwest Airlines merger 10 years later

Delta Air Lines on Monday celebrated the 10th anniversary of its acquisition of Northwest Airlines with a party in a hangar at the Twin Cities airport. Atlanta-based Delta paid $2.6 billion for the airline long synonymous with Minnesota.
Regulators approve natural gas plant proposal for Superior

Minnesota is one step closer to having a new natural gas plant as part of its energy future. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted 3-2 Monday to approve a proposal for a natural gas plant that would be built across the border from Duluth in Superior, Wis.

Bill of the month: A $48,329 allergy test is a lot of scratch
A California college professor never imagined that trying to figure out what was causing her rash could wind up costing so much.
FBI says suspicious parcel was addressed to CNN in Atlanta

Bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta on Monday about a suspicious package sent to CNN, investigators said Monday, just hours before a court hearing for a Florida man accused of sending packages containing explosive material to prominent Democrats.

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