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A rise in breast cancer among younger women prompted the U.S. Preventive Task Force to issue new screening guidelines. They recommend mammograms every other year, starting at age 40.

The Fargo-Moorhead area is ranked 24th of the 25 U.S. cities with the worst short-term particle pollution, which is caused by factories, power plants, vehicle emissions and fires.

Rallies are planned for Monday afternoon at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, as well as at Hamline University in St. Paul, as anti-war protests continue into a second week.

A recent survey found that Americans' sleep patterns have been getting worse. Adult women under 50 are among the most sleep-deprived demographics.

Democrats have moved to effectively suspend Sen. Nicole Mitchell from caucus and committee decisions, but her ability to vote could still rankle Republicans in the 34-33 chamber. Mitchell is under fire after a burglary arrest last week.

A few hundred people rallied in support of Minnesota state trooper Ryan Londregan at the Hennepin County Government Center Monday while prosecutors asked for a short delay in order to add four new attorneys from an outside firm to join the case.

Prosecutors say seven defendants schemed to steal $47 million from taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs by falsifying attendance rosters and food invoices. Defense attorneys said their clients were following the rules and feeding children.

Charges have been dismissed against a Red Lake woman for alleged torture and malicious punishment of a child. Jennifer Stately was arrested last month after an Amber Alert was issued.

A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the pro-Palestinian protests currently happening at Columbia University.

College campuses have always been a hotbed for protests from the civil rights era to the Vietnam war to demonstrations over apartheid in South Africa. But students today also carry additional stresses from having lived through the isolation and fear from the pandemic, and the daily influence of social media that amplifies the world’s wrongs like never before, experts say.