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In Minnesota

The Minnesota Senate has voted to keep in place the state’s longtime ban on Sunday liquor sales though small brewers and brew pubs will be allowed to sell growlers then. (MPR News)

Republicans in the Minnesota House took the wraps off a health and human services budget bill that ends MinnesotaCare, shifts payments to insurance companies, adds money for nursing homes and ultimately cuts about $1 billion in spending over the next two years. (MPR News)

The House Republican environmental bill is setting up a fight with Gov. Dayton over environmental rules Republicans say are too restrictive to businesses. (Star Tribune)

The Minnesota House has voted to legalize silencers and passed a handful of other bills expanding the state's gun laws. (AP via MPR News)

Minnesota and Wisconsin are nearing a deal on tax reciprocity. (Pioneer Press)

National Politics

Congress appears set to give President Obama the power to negotiate a major trade deal even as many Democrats in Congress oppose such powers. (Washington Post)

Loretta Lynch's nomination as Attorney General is still stalled in the Senate, in case you were wondering. (New York Times)

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will accept donations from lobbyists and political action committees in a break from President Obama's practice. (Politico)

Speaking of Clinton, she's working hard at being more spontaneous on the campaign trail. (New York Times)

The House quietly passed legislation to make it easier for big donors to make secret contributions to nonprofits. (Politico)

DFL U.S. Reps. Rick Nolan and Betty McCollum are at odds over a bill introduced by McCollum that would likely halt future mining operations in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Voyageurs National Park, both located in the 8th District Nolan represents. (MPR News)