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In Minnesota

Minnesota House Republicans went to work on their pledge to give back to taxpayers a majority of the state’s nearly $1.9 billion budget surplus. (MPR News)

MinnPost explains how Minnesota's budget process works. (MinnPost)

The owner of Minnesota's nuclear power plants has no plans to build a new one, but wants flexibility to do it if needed. (Pioneer Press)

A Republican Minnesota legislator wants Wisconsin business owners who are opposed to the Badger State Legislature’s likely passage of what’s known as “right-to-work” legislation to move to Minnesota. (MPR News)

National Politics

Congress ended a showdown linking Homeland Security Department spending and immigration policy as House Speaker John Boehner defied hard-line Republicans and let the chamber vote to fund the agency through September. All eight Minnesota House members voted for the bill. (Bloomberg News)

Boehner's move was unpopular with conservatives (most of the votes were supplied by Democrats). An outside spending group close to the Speaker that was founded and is chaired by former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has been running ads defending Boehner from some of toughest critics. (Huffington Post)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met with rounds of applause and repeated standing ovations Tuesday while addressing a joint meeting of Congress but make no mistake: Democrats were by no means joining in the acclaim. (Washington Post)

Republicans are very excited about the revelations that Hillary Clinton relied on a personal email account for her correspondence as Secretary of State. (Politico)

A Justice Department review has found that Missouri's troubled Ferguson Police Department engaged in a broad pattern of racially biased enforcement that permeated the city's justice system, including the use of unreasonable force against African American suspects. (USA Today)

The New York Times profiles Stephanie Schriock, the head of the influential Democratic group, Emily's List, who was Al Franken's 2008 campaign manager. (New York Times)