Authorities are warning residents to use caution when driving because several roads are washed out due to flooding in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Law enforcement reports that Minnesota Highway 23 washed out at the Nemidji River bridge in Carlton County of Minnesota, about 14 miles southwest of Duluth.
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Controversial pipeline
Final arguments start today for a controversial proposed new oil pipeline from Canada across Minnesota. Enbridge Energy wants to replace its deteriorating pipeline that crosses through two American Indian Reservations. Tribal and climate-change activists are calling for their supporters to pack the the Public Utilities Commission hearing room today. The commission will decide whether the pipeline is needed and what route it should take through the state. The regulators are scheduled to make their final decision on this debate by next week.
A strong earthquake knocked over walls and set off scattered fires around metropolitan Osaka in western Japan on Monday morning, killing at least three people and injuring dozens.
Congressional Democrats will visit the U.S.- Mexico border today where migrant children have been separated from their parents. The group will go to the facilities where unaccompanied and separated children are being held. After the visit, the congressional members and local immigration advocates will participate in a roundtable to discuss the impact of the family separation plan.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining a previously undisclosed meeting between longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone and a Russian figure who allegedly tried to sell him dirt on Hillary Clinton. The meeting between Stone and a man who identified himself as Henry Greenberg was described in a pair of letters sent Friday to the House Intelligence Committee and first reported by The Washington Post.
