A University of Minnesota researcher is helping to identify priorities for climate science across the country after President Donald Trump paused and dismissed the contributors of the 6th National Climate Assessment in 2025.

Melissa Kenney is a part of a group of scientists trying to continue similar work on their own. The new paper, recently published in Earth’s Future and the Journal of the American Meteorological Society, is their first publication with Kenney as lead author.

Kenney spoke to Minnesota Now about the paper and why she felt it was important to keep the work going.

In early January, at the peak of what the Trump administration called Operation Metro Surge, two Target employees in Richfield were pinned to the ground and aggressively detained by federal agents.

They are U.S. citizens and were eventually released, but suffered injuries during the arrest.

They are among the more than 500 U.S. citizens who were detained and held during the current administration as it carried out its immigration enforcement agenda. Fifteen percent of those people are Minnesotans.

That’s according to a new investigation by ProPublica. For more on what was uncovered, Minnesota Now host Nina Moini spoke to one of the reporters of the story, Liliana Michelena.

Leadership at Red Lake Nation is in dispute after a federal investigation found child neglect and abuse in the tribe's child welfare program. Community members are now coming together to find a way forward.

A new partnership aims to train more doctors to provide obstetric care in rural communities in Minnesota.

Plus, an anthology out this week shares stories of aging from Minnesota women over the age of 65.

We've had lots of sunshine and warm fall days. How long will the warmth stick around? MPR Chief Meteorologist Ben Cathey gave the forecast.

And from the North Star State to the stars in space, a Minnesota native is on his first mission with NASA. We talked with the astronaut while he was in space.

The Minnesota Music Minute was “666” by jeremy messersmith and “Money Doesn’t Matter” by Six Mile Grove was the Song of the Day.