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Minnesota

DFL Gov. Mark Dayton will tour flooded areas around the state again today. He says a special session is a last resort. (MPR News)

And Dayton seems to be acting like a (gasp!) candidate (Star Tribune)

DFL Sen. Al Franken has released his fourth TV ad of the campaign. In it, he claims he took on Wall Street. (Franken ad)

Local governments in Minnesota spent more than $8 million to lobby other units of government in 2013, according to a new report from the state auditor, a three percent rise from the year before. (MPR News)

8th Congresstional District Republican candidate Stewart Mills gets noticed by Politico for his hair and policy chops. (Politico)

And 3rd District U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen has written a letter to the president signed by a bipartisan group of his colleagues asking for a new choice for ambassador to Norway. Here's a story we did on the current choice. (MPR News)

National Politics

The Obama administration held the first-ever White House Summit on Working Families on Monday. Keeping the focus on topics like paid leave, equal pay and workplace flexibility is seen by Democrats as a winning strategy in the midterm elections. (NPR)

The Supreme Court mostly validated the EPA's plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming while imposing some limits on the agency’s reach. (Washington Post)

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the Sunni militants seizing territory in Iraq had become such a threat that the United States might not wait for Iraqi politicians to form a new government before taking military action. (New York Times)

Politico gets a peek into the activities of the Democracy Alliance, a big money liberal group that's trying to counter the Koch brothers network on the right. (Politico)

It's election day in some state. In Oklahoma, voters are choosing between two very conservative, but very different candidates to replace retiring Sen. Tom Coburn. (NPR)