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Mike Mulcahy

Daily Digest: TGIF edition

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Good morning, and welcome to Friday. We seem to be packing five days worth of news into a four day week, which I guess is a good thing. Let's get on with the Digest.

1. Prince's death was an accident from self-administered fentanyl, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office. The office released a one page summary of its findings Thursday after the Associated Press reported that the music icon had indeed died from an opioid overdose. Fentanyl is a synthetic drug which one expert described as the "Ebola of of opioids" because of the efficiency with which it kills.  (MPR News)

2. Moose in Minnesota may soon be protected as an endangered species. The population of the large mammals has been dropping sharply in the state, and some environmental groups say placing the moose on the Endangered Species list is the best way to prevent it from going extinct here. (MPR News)

3. Republican legislative leaders say if they write letters saying there's a mistake in the tax bill passed by the Legislature it should be enough to prevent the errant provision of the law from being enforced. Gov. Mark Dayton disagrees, and says the bill can either be fixed in a special session or he will leave it unsigned. If he doesn't sign it by Monday, it won't become law. As I noted yesterday, Dayton has other demands he wants met before he will call a special session and Republicans are reluctant to give in to him. So the two sides sit. (MPR News)

4. Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Donald Trump is "temperamentally unfit" to be president. She accused him of having a very thin skin and said his ideas about foreign policy are "not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”(Washington Post)

5. After weeks of hesitation House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., endorsed Donald Trump Thursday. "It’s no secret that he and I have our differences," Ryan wrote in the Janesville Gazette. "I won’t pretend otherwise. And when I feel the need to, I’ll continue to speak my mind. But the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement." (Politico)