| Good morning! Cloudy, with showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid-50s to 60s north, lower 70s south. We're not exactly ESPN here at MPR but this sports controversy is worth talking about. As NewsCut blogger Bob Collins notes: "It's difficult to imagine a more obvious slight than the one the NCAA tossed on the University of Minnesota women's softball team, which went 16-3 against other teams invited to the NCAA tournament, won 25 in a row, and finished the season 54-3. For all of that, the tournament committee sent the Gophers in unseeded." | Forecast | Updraft weather blog |
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| President Trump personally appealed to FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau's investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to notes Comey wrote after the meeting. The White House has denied the account. | Trump asked Comey to shut down Flynn investigation | Q&A: Would Trump request to end Flynn probe have broken law? |
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| The storms hit late in the afternoon Tuesday and into the evening, flattening the Prairie Lake Estate Mobile Park near Chetek. "It's a mess," Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said. |
| The move would create logistical chaos on the world's busiest corridor of air travel -- as many as 65 million people a year travel between Europe and North American on over 400 daily flights. |
| A new report from the World Health Organization looks at the causes -- and how most of the deaths could be prevented. |
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| She was the alpha female of a pack in Yellowstone National Park, sought after for photographs because of her unusual white coat. The wolf was found suffering from severe wounds and had to be put down. |
| Confronted with loss, he worked to "get this kind of earthly sadness away from me.- |
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