Good morning! Our long predicted January thaw has arrived. Temperatures soared Thursday afternoon on southerly winds and filtered sunshine. Several Minnesota cities saw temperatures in the 40s Thursday. For today we'll have mostly sunny skies with a high around 42. (Just a fun fact, the record high in the Twin Cities is 41.) | What's on MPR News today? | Forecast
Pete Stauber and Jim Hagedorn got a lot of help from President Trump as they flipped those Minnesota districts. And both Republicans think their ties to Trump will help their Minnesota constituents.
President Trump and congressional leaders will meet in the White House at 11:30 Friday morning, but it's hard to see how they'll craft a deal to end a partial government shutdown that has now hit the two-week mark.
Gov.-elect Tim Walz has appointed two women — a former suburban mayor and a former Best Buy executive — to oversee the two largest state agencies charged with looking out for Minnesota's environment and natural resources. They both have a few things on their minds: climate change, water quality and keeping the outdoors relevant.
House Democrats are unveiling a comprehensive elections and ethics reform package that targets what they call a "culture of corruption in Washington" and aims to reduce the role of money in politics.
Police say a man and woman died at the scene of the crash about 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Chief Rick Mathwig says it's not clear whether the two victims knew each other or were walking separately.
Sled hockey is growing in Minnesota, and apparently is quite competitive: A Fargo-Moorhead junior team won its second national championship last year, and is hoping to defend its title this spring.
Federal prosecutors have charged two more people with defrauding Catholic Charities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. They said Rachael Elizabeth Ekholm and Aisha Lenee Davis pretended to be landlords renting to homeless people and got the nonprofit to send them checks.
Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Travis Jordan will not be charged, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Thursday.
