MPR News Update

A shutdown-ending deal? Big farm yields but smaller profits; CPR that brings back the clinically dead

We're also reporting on another Republican move against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. There's now a three-month delay in the final decision about the route for southwest Twin Cities light rail. And we talk to comedian Bill Crystal about his upcoming Minneapolis show and his early family life in New York City and its connection to the jazz scene there.

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