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Daily Digest: Terrorists and candidates

Good morning. Here's your Digest.

1. A Minnesotan who went to Somalia to fight for al-Shabab and has ties to ISIS has surrendered to the Somali government. (MPR News)

2. Has Donald Trump finally gone too far? He called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." (NPR)

3. Democrats are trying to use the no-fly list to pressure Republicans on guns. And at least some of the GOP presidential candidates agree that suspected terrorists should not be allowed to legally buy guns. (New York Times)

4. Gov. Mark Dayton will not ask for a health review of the proposed PolyMet mine, after initially indicating that he would. (Star Tribune)

5. The Minneapolis school board has picked Sergio Paez to be the next superintendent. (MPR News)