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Brett Neely

The Daily Digest: Affordable housing struggles

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In Minnesota

Communities around the Twin Cities metro area are struggling to figure out how to provide affordable housing. (MPR News)

As they're sorting through requests for more funding from programs and agencies next legislative session, state lawmakers are likely to be asked to help out a huge New York City-based nonprofit: the National Football League. (Pioneer Press)

Remember this guy? Fact checkers have fun with former Gov. Jesse Ventura's claim that Nazis pioneered water fluoridation. (Politifact)

National Politics

Plans to quickly approve a $1.1 trillion spending package to keep most of the federal government open through the end of the fiscal year fell apart late Monday, increasing the chance lawmakers will miss a Thursday deadline. (Washington Post)

Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading donorshave begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate in 2016, fearing that a long primary would bolster Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate. (New York Times)

A Senate report that details the CIA's torture of suspected terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks is sparking a fierce debate in Congress over whether it should be released to the public. (USA Today)

The Obama administration issued guidelines that ban federal law enforcement from profiling on the basis of religion and national origin. But the guidelines will exempt airport security and border checkpoints and won't be binding on local and state police agencies. (AP via Pioneer Press)

Some on the left want to borrow the tea party's tactics in the hopes of shaking up the Democratic Party. (Politico)