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Sanctions, espionage, investigations, election hacking: Russia is in the news every day. What's going on?

Gen. Joseph Dunford said the Defense Department is making "no modifications" to its current policies on service by transgender troops until more direction arrives from the White House.

Minnesota's Commerce Department on Monday will unveil the premiums insurers are seeking for non-group health plans next year.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke reportedly called Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her fellow Alaskan, Sen. Dan Sullivan, to say their state could run into trouble with the Trump administration.

U.S. Senators prepare a bill to block firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, warn against White House retribution toward Department of Justice.

A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection says the agency "has not changed any policies affecting asylum procedures."

Sanctions, espionage, investigations, election hacking: Russia is in the news every day.

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier, said he has a "very good idea who the senior leakers are," adding that he had talked to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and to his "buddies" in the FBI about the matter.

"I think my primary reaction was anger at first, and then frustration, and then a lot of fear after that," said Tarrence Robertson, a transgender man and a captain in the Minnesota National Guard.

Newt Gingrich met with President Trump Tuesday, then went on NPR the next day and blasted the Justice Department. "I think that this is not one of the president's better moments," Gingrich said.

Some stories in the news worth a look this Thursday morning.

President Trump surprised the military-industrial-congressional complex with a post on Twitter regarding banning transgender troops -- even though they already serve openly now.

Five Republican governors from the central U.S. offered their ideas on health care reform, the opioid crisis, education and the security of our election systems.

Metro Transit's bus and light rail fares will increase this fall, along with Metro Mobility fares.

Senate Republicans are lowering their sights and trying to unite behind a so-called "skinny repeal" that would merely undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obama's law.

Members of Minnesota's congressional delegation immediately criticized the president's surprise announcement to bar transgender people from military service.

President Donald Trump is not up to speed on who's fighting whom in the Middle East.

"Congressman Steve Scalise has made excellent progress in his recovery from a life-threatening gunshot wound six weeks ago," the hospital said.

As congressional scrutiny of Russian interference expands, the panel began looking Wednesday at the advocacy of foreign governments -- though key witnesses did not appear as originally planned.