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Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary; New data show ICE arrests in Kentucky are on the rise; IN Senate advances immigration enforcement bill; Analysis: Xcel gas infrastructure plan targets communities of color; ND gets ready to unleash rural health funds.

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State and local governments consider whether to cooperate with immigration enforcement as criticism intensifies in Congress. Minnesota educators say the raids are frightening families, while the White House says it wants to deescalate and change the subject.

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Training to prepare rural students to become physicians has come to Minnesota's countryside, a grassroots effort in Wisconsin aims to bring childcare and senior-living under the same roof and solar power is helping restore Montana s buffalo to feed the hungry.

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