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Cathy Wurzer
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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

Morning Announcements | Weather chats with Mark Seeley

A Minnesota farmer and a college student walk a mile in each other’s news

A Minnesota farmer and a college student walk a mile in each other’s news

This election season, MPR News invited its audience to learn more about people on the other side of the political spectrum through an initiative called “Walk a Mile in My News.” Two of our participants, a Democrat and a Republican, swapped their go-to news sources and then let us record their conversations. They had far more in common than they expected.
by Catharine Richert

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Minnesota Lynx fans celebrate historic year for women’s sports despite WNBA Finals loss

Minnesota Lynx fans celebrate historic year for women’s sports despite WNBA Finals loss

It was a record-breaking season for the WNBA. The first three games each had over a million viewers on average, with the audience growing for each contest. The series set both the overall attendance record for a WNBA Finals as well as the average attendance mark.
by Sam Stroozas

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Pair of suburban-centered Minnesota congressional districts attract differing levels of attention

Pair of suburban-centered Minnesota congressional districts attract differing levels of attention

Minnesota’s east-suburban 2nd Congressional District and west-suburban 3rd Congressional District have traits in common, but they’re not being contested in similar fashion this year.
by Mark Zdechlik

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Continued dry spell makes this one of the driest Octobers in state history

Continued dry spell makes this one of the driest Octobers in state history

October 2024 is on track to join the top five driest Octobers in Minnesota state history. Meteorologist and climatologist Mark Seeley called it “remarkable” in his weekly weather chat.
by Cathy Wurzer and Lukas Levin

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Minneapolis, St. Paul birders drop 'Audubon' from chapter names

Minneapolis, St. Paul birders drop 'Audubon' from chapter names

The St. Paul and Minneapolis Audubon chapters have dropped the contentious naturalist’s namesake from their titles, rebranding their organizations as the St. Paul Bird Alliance and Land of Lakes Bird Alliance, respectively.
by Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton

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As campaign nears finish, Walz adds dashes of digs to his portions of joy

As campaign nears finish, Walz adds dashes of digs to his portions of joy

The Democratic vice presidential candidate entered the race emphasizing positivity in politics. In the final stretch to Election Day, he’s trying to thread the needle between needling Donald Trump and JD Vance while still keeping an optimistic message.
by Dana Ferguson

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Winner of 3M Young Scientist Challenge invents AI pesticide detector for produce

Winner of 3M Young Scientist Challenge invents AI pesticide detector for produce

Fourteen-year-old Sirish Subash — a ninth-grader from Snellville, Ga. — was crowned the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge contest in St. Paul this week. He picked up a cash prize of $25,000 and the lesson that moms are always right.
by Gracie Stockton and Cathy Wurzer

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