The agreement includes a $1 billion investment from Fairview in its medical facilities on the University of Minnesota campus, along with $50 million in annual funding for the medical school.

The bill provides roughly $70 billion for immigration enforcement and highlights a GOP caucus continuing to endorse Trump's immigration agenda as Democrats warn Congress has ceded its oversight role.

The Justice Department says it will not seek the death penalty against Vance Boelter, who is accused of killing former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

The Jeffers Petroglyphs site in southwestern Minnesota is renowned for rock carvings, some older than Stonehenge. With a newly updated visitor center and contemporary Native exhibits, the Minnesota Historical Society hopes to draw a new generation to the ancient site.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air quality alert from noon to 9 p.m. Tuesday for the Twin Cities metro area, extending northwest to St. Cloud, Sauk Centre, Long Prairie and Little Falls. It’s due to ground-level ozone.

In his referral, Vance wrote that officials in Minnesota or anywhere else in the country “must be held accountable” if they facilitated fraud, prevented officials from stopping it or retaliated against whistleblowers who tried to report it.