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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Unless you’ve taken a vow to the contrary, you’d be wise to analyze any commands, requests or instructions issued in your direction today. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Do not bank on the potential of things today. Potential can no more sail on the wind than it can fortify against it. To know how an idea stands up to reality, it must first be acted upon, built and brought into practical form. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It is wasteful to toil for people who don’t compensate you for your work. Money is not the only compensation, but some fair exchange, ...

Minnesota takes steps to make it even easier to vote

ST. PAUL — Minnesota — a state where it is already easy to vote — is moving make it even easier, countering the national trend of states imposing further restrictions on balloting. The Minnesota Senate was set Wednesday to debate an elections bill that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register so they can vote as soon as they are old enough, and establish automatic registration when residents apply for or renew driver’s licenses or sign up for Medicaid and other public programs. At a news conference ahead of the debate, Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon ...

Mississippi River flooding prompts evacuations

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some residents along the swelling Upper Mississippi River evacuated their homes this week while others scrambled Wednesday to stack sandbags in preparation for what forecasters say could be near-record flooding caused by the rapid melting of a huge snowpack in northern Minnesota. A small number of people had to leave their homes in Wisconsin as the river kept rising. In the small riverfront community of Buffalo, Iowa, residents — wary of the devastating floods of 2019 — were stockpiling sandbags as they braced for flooding this weekend and early next week.

First pill for fecal transplants wins FDA approval

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants. The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the capsules for adults 18 and older who face risks from repeat infections with Clostridium difficile, a bacteria that can cause severe ...

Supreme Court seems to favor woman who got $0 in condo sale

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to give a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman another day in court to try to recoup some money after the county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill. The justices seemed in broad agreement with arguments by the lawyer for Geraldine Tyler that Hennepin County, Minnesota, violated the Constitution’s prohibition on the taking of private property without “just compensation.” “At bottom, she’s saying the county took her property and made a profit on her surplus equity. It belongs to ...

Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Republicans barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the House floor for the rest of the 2023 session on Wednesday in retaliation for her rebuking colleagues – and then participating in protests – after they voted to ban gender-affirming care for children. The punishment marks the first time in nearly half a century that Montana lawmakers have sought to censure one of their own. It caps a weeklong standoff between her and House Republican leaders and formalizes their decision to not let Zephyr speak since she said those supportive of such a ban would ...