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It’s mushroom foraging season in Minnesota. Are you out hunting yet?

The season to forage for morels in Minnesota is nearing its end, meaning this long weekend might be your last chance to look for them. But don’t worry — this is just the beginning. 
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3 years later, some north Minneapolis businesses are still recovering from unrest

Since the unrest in the Twin Cities in 2020, government funding has helped some northside businesses reopen. But others are not yet whole.
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Tips to get outside for Memorial Day weekend — even if you don't have a campsite

Minnesota’s unofficial start to summer comes with limitless outdoor options this weekend, from camping to whitewater rafting — or even just hammocking in the sun.
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Arts Briefs: Concerts and celebrations

This week’s Arts Briefs include new concert series, a Thai New Year’s celebration and updates from the arts community. Also in Absolute Bleeding Edge: a multimedia project about beds, and the lack of them.

HyLife H-2B employees face unknown future

As the auction selling the HyLife pork processing plant in Windom launches, about half of the plant’s 1,000 workers face an uncertain future.
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Listen: Voices from the 2023 Minnesota legislative session

The Minnesota Legislature has adjourned, but some of what transpired in St. Paul during the last five months lives on in this audio recap.
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'It feels awesome': Heather Boyd makes history as first woman and first Anishinaabe to lead Grand Portage National Monument 

Boyd is the first female and Anishinaabe superintendent to lead the federal site on the ancestral homelands of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe.
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Florida man at center of fatal human smuggling case pleads not guilty in Minnesota

Court records show that Steve Shand entered the plea Friday in a hearing held via video conference.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas.

Republican-led Texas House impeaches state Attorney General Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by fellow Republicans in a historic vote in the Texas House. He will immediately and temporarily be suspended from his duties.
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Castro hits 2 of Minnesota's 4 home runs in 9-7 win over Toronto

Edouard Julien also homered as part of a three-hit day, and Alex Kirilloff and Kyle Farmer each had two of Minnesota’s 14 hits.
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Canoe team sets record-setting pace down the Mississippi River

The four canoers set out from the headwaters at Itasca State Park in Minnesota on May 10. They made their way south accompanied by a team of assistants who travelled alongside the canoe by boat and road.
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Driver unharmed after vehicle drops into sinkhole in Brooklyn Park

The driver of the vehicle told police she was at a stop sign at the intersection when the front end of the vehicle began to sink. She escaped from the vehicle.
Adam Savage, host of Tested, and right to repair advocate, shows off the lathe he's fixing at his San Francisco workshop.

Fixit culture is on the rise, but repair legislation faces resistance

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently signed comprehensive “right to repair” legislation into law, but such laws in other states are facing hurdles. The laws come as consumers show an increased interest in prolonging the life of the things they own, rather than throwing them out.
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US has treaty duty to fund policing on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, judge rules

The outcome of the case could affect other reservations, including some where Native women are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average.
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North Dakota Gov. Burgum expected to announce GOP campaign for president, Republican allies say

The Republicans said Burgum plans to launch his campaign June 7 and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the event had not been publicized yet.
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Ask a Bookseller: Wandering Souls

This week's recommendation comes from Emi Lim Morison of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana.
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers the keynote address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 141st commencement exercises on May 18, 2022, in New London, Conn.

Kamala Harris will become the first woman to give a West Point commencement speech

The vice president will make history this weekend when she delivers remarks to the 2023 graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which was established over two centuries ago.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram speaks during a news conference in April. On Friday, the DEA announced it will strip one of the nation's largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.

DEA moves to revoke major drug distributor's license over opioid crisis failures

The agency says it will strip Morris & Dickson of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after finding it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.
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Two teens injured in stabbing, fight during evening event at Minneapolis high school

Two teenagers were injured and two other teens arrested after reports of a stabbing and fight during an event at Washburn High School in Minneapolis on Thursday night.
House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to members of the media after arriving at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

Biden says debt ceiling deal 'very close.' Here's why it remains elusive

The Treasury estimates the country could default on its loans as early as June 1. But negotiators are still hashing out key provisions including work requirements and permitting reform.
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