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Stories from October 23, 2018

Fact-checking the migrant caravan situation

Thousands of migrants from Central American are marching north towards the U.S. Who are they and why are they leaving their homes?
by Kerri Miller and Jeffrey Bissoy

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Pregnant woman saves husband shortly before giving birth

Pregnant woman saves husband shortly before giving birth

A West St. Paul woman in her 39th week of pregnancy saved her husband's life by giving him CPR after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
by Martin Moylan

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Stocks mostly recover from an early plunge on Wall Street

3M fell 4.4 percent to $192.55 after its earnings missed Wall Street's targets. The industrial manufacturer said it expects raw material prices to continue climbing, and for tariffs to have a roughly $100 million negative impact on the company's sourcing costs next year.
by The Associated Press

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Rewind: Omar vs. Zielinski in 5th Congressional District debate

Rewind: Omar vs. Zielinski in 5th Congressional District debate

State Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, and Republican activist Jennifer Zielinski are vying for Minnesota's 5th District seat in Congress.
by MPR News Staff

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6 questions about an arms control treaty on the rocks

6 questions about an arms control treaty on the rocks

Signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. President Trump says he intends to withdraw.

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Photos: Army of volunteers searching for Jayme Closs

Photos: Army of volunteers searching for Jayme Closs

Volunteers streamed into a staging area in western Wisconsin on Tuesday to assist in an expanded ground search for a missing teen whose parents were fatally shot in their home last week.
by Evan Frost

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Radinovich addresses attack ads with personal response

Radinovich addresses attack ads with personal response

After ads from Republicans about driving violations and other legal scrapes, 8th District DFL candidate releases a two minute video that details family tragedies.
by Briana Bierschbach

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Weary migrants still far from reaching U.S. border

Weary migrants still far from reaching U.S. border

The caravan, estimated to include more than 7,000 people, had advanced about 45 miles since crossing the border from Guatemala, and still faced more than 1,000 miles, and likely much further, to the end of the journey.
by The Associated Press

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Mikaela Davis plays the 7th St Entry in Minneapolis

Singer-songwriter Mikaela Davis has been playing the harp since elementary school, and she went to college with plans to become a symphony harpist. Along the way, the Rochester, New York native decided she wanted to play her own compositions with a small band.
by MPR News Staff

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Lawsuit filed over highway shutdown during pipeline protest

Lawsuit filed over highway shutdown during pipeline protest

Two members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a reservation priest are suing over a five-month shutdown of a North Dakota highway during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, saying the closure violated their and others' constitutional rights.
by The Associated Press

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Sandra Day O'Connor announces likely Alzheimer's diagnosis

Sandra Day O'Connor announces likely Alzheimer's diagnosis

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, "probably Alzheimer's disease."
by The Associated Press

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2018 election video: What does the attorney general do?

2018 election video: What does the attorney general do?

Minnesotans will choose the state's top lawyer on Nov. 6, 12 years after incumbent Lori Swanson was elected to the office. Learn what the state's attorney general in under a minute in this video.
by Jiwon Choi

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Trailing in AG race, Ellison tries to refocus on issues

Trailing in AG race, Ellison tries to refocus on issues

DFL candidate for attorney general Keith Ellison said he will refocus his campaign on the issues after a new poll found Republican Doug Wardlow now leading the race.
by Tim Pugmire

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Microplastics are turning up everywhere, even in human excrement

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, even in human excrement

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.
by Jill Neimark

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Museum of the Bible says 5 of its most famed artifacts are fake

Museum of the Bible says 5 of its most famed artifacts are fake

After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit. Other fragments will undergo further study.
by Emily Sullivan

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Turkish president: Saudis plotted writer's killing for days

Turkish president: Saudis plotted writer's killing for days

Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate after plotting his death for days, Turkey's president said Tuesday, contradicting Saudi Arabia's explanation that the writer was accidentally killed.
by The Associated Press

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Authorities: Explosive device found near George Soros' home

Authorities: Explosive device found near George Soros' home

An object that appeared to be an explosive device was found in a mailbox at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who has donated heavily to liberal causes and is a frequent target of unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories.
by The Associated Press

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Search expands for evidence in Wisconsin homicides and girl's disappearance

Search expands for evidence in Wisconsin homicides and girl's disappearance

Up to 2,000 volunteers were expected to help authorities look for evidence Tuesday in the Barron, Wis., area. Meanwhile, authorities said they're looking for two cars in connection with Jayme Closs' disappearance.
by Matt Sepic

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Brooklyn Park residents steamed up over Project Hotdish

Brooklyn Park residents steamed up over Project Hotdish

A proposed warehouse development nearly half the size of the Mall of America has residents near the site riled up over traffic, noise and property values.
by Martin Moylan

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Daily Digest: Wardlow leads Ellison in AG race

A new poll in the attorney general race and more political stories from around the state.
by Bill Wareham

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Duluth City Council approves police gear spending, despite protests

Duluth City Council approves police gear spending, despite protests

Protesters wearing masks and bandannas shouted and chanted throughout the meeting, vowing to shut it down. But after a recess and without any discussion because of the noise, the council voted 6-2 to authorize the purchase.
by Dan Kraker

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'Glimmer of Hope' provides a blueprint for launching social change

'Glimmer of Hope' provides a blueprint for launching social change

With a new collection of essays, the 25 founders of March For Our Lives return the subject of the Parkland shooting and gun violence to national consciousness just in time for midterms elections.
by Aubri Juhasz

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Fierce, spiky 'Friday Black' packs a big punch

Fierce, spiky 'Friday Black' packs a big punch

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's intellectually hefty debut works through ideas about racism, about classism and capitalism, about the apocalypse, and, most of all, about the corrosive power of belief.
by Lily Meyer

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Poll: Wardlow moves ahead of Ellison in MN attorney general race

Poll: Wardlow moves ahead of Ellison in MN attorney general race

In a significant reversal, the latest MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll finds Republican Doug Wardlow now leading DFLer Keith Ellison by 7 points, with some calling their Wardlow support a vote against Ellison.
by Tim Pugmire and Briana Bierschbach

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