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Two men were found dead in an apartment in Fargo last month.
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When you think of the sights and sounds of fall in North Dakota, flocks of snow geese and other waterfowl overhead come to mind, as do the leaves changing color. But one thing that's often overlooked are the large flocks of red-winged blackbirds that swoop and swirl over sunflower fields and other areas.
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Hunters face deer season changes amid EHD; lawmakers weigh data center rules; George Peck examines Tesla’s flying Roadster; Tom Isern recalls prairie Halloween mischief.
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Fort Abercrombie was built in 1857 along the heavily wooded Red River, 15 miles north of the present-day towns of Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Breckenridge, Minnesota. Both towns were founded at the “Head of the Red” in 1858 by Pierre Bottineau, a French-Chippewa frontiersman and railroad surveyor. He led a team of men from St. Paul who spent the winter there to hold the claim.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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Every other decade over the past hundred years has produced at least one midterm that made a big difference in Congress and in national politics more broadly.
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Researchers who track online influence operations say Kremlin-backed groups are renewing tactics they've used to sow distrust and discord in previous elections in the U.S. and around the world. -
Israel's Prime Minister is vowing to launch a major military operation in the West Bank in response to an attack by two Palestinian gunmen on an Israeli military checkpoint that killed two soldiers.
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