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• Controversial Coast Guard plan gets hearing in Duluth
  The Coast Guard will hold a public meeting Monday on a proposal to use live ammunition fire on the Great Lakes. Some Duluth residents, including the mayor, are voicing their opposition.October 12, 2006
• A diplomatic solution to the North Korea situation?
  President Bush stressed Wednesday that he wants to use diplomacy to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. What are the chances it will work?Midday, October 12, 2006
• Afghanistan by the numbers
  American-led troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001. It took them just 66 days to topple the Taliban government in Kabul. Yet five years later, the war rages on.October 11, 2006
• Nell Freudenberger's Dissident
  Nell Freudenberger's new novel "The Dissident" is a book about family, art, and ownership. In the book a famous painter and performance artist arrives in Los Angeles from China. He's come to teach at an exclusive girls school, and to present an exhibition. But who is he really?October 10, 2006
• Montevideo soldier wounded in Iraq bombing
  Army Sgt. Jared Winters, 27, was on patrol in an armored Humvee near Balad, Iraq, when he was wounded, according to his parents.October 10, 2006
• North Korea proclaims nuclear test
  North Korea claims to have completed an underground test of a nuclear weapon. President Bush condemned the action, while stressing that the U.S. government had not yet confirmed its authenticity. "Such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security," Bush said Monday.Midday, October 9, 2006
• New strategy in Iraq
  The U.S. Army and Marines are putting together a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on some of the lessons learned in Iraq, but some question whether or not there are enough troops in Iraq to effectively implement the strategy.Midmorning, October 9, 2006
• Covering the war and the White House
  The current White House has been called the most secretive in modern history, and ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Martha Raddatz seconds that assessment. Raddatz talked about covering the Bush presidency and the war in Iraq Thursday at the Westminster Town Hall Forum.Midday, October 6, 2006
• Film festival honors greatest generation
  A film festival this weekend at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul honors the lives of regular Minnesotans who lived through extraordinary times.October 6, 2006
• Liberians' search for truth begins in Minnesota
  In the coming months, Liberians living in the U.S. will begin to tell their stories about atrocities that occurred in their West African nation. Some of the early training to collect those statements is underway now in Minnesota.October 4, 2006
• The fight for the 1st
  Minnesota's 1st Congressional District race has heated up. In a part of the state that has voted Republican for years, a Democratic challenger may have a chance.October 4, 2006
• Powell says U.S. was "dead wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday in Minneapolis the United States was, "dead wrong," when the government said Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.October 3, 2006
• Big names battle in the 8th
  Familiar names face off in the 8th District race this year. Long-time incumbent Democrat Jim Oberstar faces a challenge from Republican Rod Grams, the former TV news anchor who served both in the U.S. House and Senate.October 2, 2006
• Three soldiers from Fergus Falls Guard unit injured in Iraq
  The soldiers were in a Bradley fighting vehicle that was hit by an improvised explosive device near Fallujah last week.October 2, 2006
• How the Congress works
  Congress is now adjourned for five weeks, so the senators and representatives can go home and campaign. How does business actually get done in Washington? How different are election years from the other years?Midday, October 2, 2006

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