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California festival gunman killed himself, officials say

California festival gunman killed himself, officials say

The gunman who opened fire on a California food festival killed himself after officers shot him multiple times, officials said Friday, correcting previous police accounts that the officers fired the fatal bullet.
by The Associated Press

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An 'excruciatingly beautiful' novel from a celebrated poet

An 'excruciatingly beautiful' novel from a celebrated poet

Aaron Cance says Ocean Vuong’s novel is simply astounding: “Everything else I read for the rest of this year is going to be measured against this novel.”
by Tracy Mumford

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Summer school program uses nature as classroom

Summer school program uses nature as classroom

A Minneapolis-based nonprofit formed in the 1970s to make the outdoors more accessible continues to introduce youth to the outdoors and help them earn school credit over the summer.
by Simone Cazares

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After Walz was sworn in, big bucks for inaugural poured in

After Walz was sworn in, big bucks for inaugural poured in

With no rules governing inaugural donations, an account for the Gov. Tim Walz celebration attracted five-figure checks from unions, corporations and lobbying firms. Some donations came months after he took office.
by Brian Bakst

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In Starr County, Texas, Trump's border wall 'still highly unpopular'

In Starr County, Texas, Trump's border wall 'still highly unpopular'

Some residents are deeply skeptical of the border wall, fearing it will aggravate flooding problems and cut them off culturally from the Rio Grande river that has defined this landscape.
by John Burnett

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Listening to the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change

Listening to the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change

The latest dispatch from the frontier of climate change: An arctic community just saw the largest die-off of reindeer in a decade. Journalist Amy Martin is talking to the people witnessing such impacts firsthand.
by Paul Huttner, Jayne Solinger and Megan Burks

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Pentagon to launch high-altitude surveillance balloons from South Dakota

Twenty-five wide-area surveillance balloons will be launched from South Dakota to drift across Midwest, including Minnesota, ending its mission in Illinois as part of a test program commissioned by a government agency to track drug trafficking.

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Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony moved to rehab

Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony moved to rehab

The family of a 5-year-old boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April says he finally has been moved out of intensive care and into a rehabilitation program.
by The Associated Press

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'Strange Harvests' turns nature's fairy tales inside out

'Strange Harvests' turns nature's fairy tales inside out

Edward Posnett's book is more than an impressive add to the modern travelogue: it refuses to accept the landscape at face value as it paints remote terrain in visceral and breathtaking prose.
by Carson Vaughan

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Minnesota nonprofit studies attitudes in Muslim community over census

Minnesota nonprofit studies attitudes in Muslim community over census

A Minnesota nonprofit organization is gathering input from the Muslim community about the 2020 U.S. Census amid discussions over whether to require people to answer a question about citizenship.
by Riham Feshir

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Minnesota now restricts where you can vape. Will that curb teen use?

E-cigarettes and vaping devices are now restricted under the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, which prevents tobacco smoking in many indoor public places, from bars to workplaces. The new restrictions took effect just in time for the start of the new school year.

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Defining the meaning and value of investigative journalism

Two local investigative journalists talked about how their work has sparked change, and share their thoughts on the importance of this type of journalism in the Trump era.
by Angela Davis and Karen Zamora

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Minnesota secretary of state on election security heading into 2020

Officials in Minnesota are already thinking about how they plan to stop hackers during the 2020 election season. Using new federal money, Secretary of State Steve Simon plans to update the state’s voter registration system and hire a cyber security policy writer.
by Angela Davis and Karen Zamora

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'Starting traditions of our own': 6 months in, girls in Scouts BSA are forging their path

'Starting traditions of our own': 6 months in, girls in Scouts BSA are forging their path

It’s now been six months since Boy Scouts of America expanded and rebranded, opening its doors to boys and girls. In Minnesota, hundreds of girls have signed up. "We’re setting the example," said one.
by John Nguyen

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With jobs numbers like these, it's hard to see why the economy is slowing

With jobs numbers like these, it's hard to see why the economy is slowing

The U.S. economy is slowing down but it keeps creating jobs at a healthy pace. Employers added 164,000 jobs last month — as analysts had projected — and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent.
by Scott Horsley and Avie Schneider

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Klobuchar qualifies for September Democratic debate, campaign announces

Klobuchar qualifies for September Democratic debate, campaign announces

Eight candidates have now qualified for September's next Democratic primary debate, with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announcing Friday she had met the donor threshold to make the stage.
by Jessica Taylor

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Toddler killed, girl injured in Itasca County crash

The State Patrol says a 2-year-old boy in a stroller was killed and a teenager pushing him was injured when a pickup truck veered onto the shoulder of a highway in northeastern Minnesota and struck them and then fled.
by The Associated Press

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Homeland Security's civil rights unit lacks power to protect migrant kids

Homeland Security's civil rights unit lacks power to protect migrant kids

A former official in the civil rights office says the unit seems afraid to offend U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE. Meanwhile, the complaints of abuses of families continue to pile up.
by Alison Kodjak, Susan Ferriss and Joshua Phillips

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Police shoot, kill man in north Minneapolis confrontation

Police shoot, kill man in north Minneapolis confrontation

Officers responding to calls of shots fired just before 3 a.m. in the Hawthorne neighborhood found a woman wounded and an armed suspect. Officials say the officers’ body cameras recorded the confrontation.
by Brandt Williams

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South Korea vows countermeasures as Japan downgrades trade status

South Korea vows countermeasures as Japan downgrades trade status

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved the removal of South Korea from a list of countries with preferential trade status, prompting retaliation from Seoul where a senior official summoned the Japanese ambassador and told him that South Koreans may no longer consider Japan a friendly nation.
by The Associated Press

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China threatens retaliation for Trump's planned tariff hike

China threatens retaliation for Trump's planned tariff hike

China on Friday threatened retaliation if U.S. President Trump's planned tariff hikes go ahead, while the renewed acrimony between the two biggest global economies sent stock markets tumbling.
by The Associated Press

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Pentagon pauses $10 billion contract that embroiled Amazon in controversy

Pentagon pauses $10 billion contract that embroiled Amazon in controversy

New Defense Secretary Mark Esper will review the cloud computing contract, for which Amazon and Microsoft are finalists. President Trump has cited critics' accusations of favoritism toward Amazon.
by Alina Selyukh

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American graduates of China's Yenching Academy are being questioned by the FBI

American graduates of China's Yenching Academy are being questioned by the FBI

In the last two years, at least five graduates have been approached by agents to gather intelligence on the program and to ascertain whether they have been co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.
by Emily Feng

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NW Minn. county first in state to use video chat for 911 calls

NW Minn. county first in state to use video chat for 911 calls

When the technology goes live later this month, Pennington County dispatchers will be able to activate a caller’s cellphone camera. Sheriff Ray Kuznia says it’s the future.
by Dan Gunderson

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Climbing through a goat prairie to see wildflowers

Climbing through a goat prairie to see wildflowers

If you are looking for a place to see pretty and rare Minnesota wildflowers this weekend, Kelly Povo and Phyllis Root suggest a trip to the Mound Prairie Scientific and Natural Area in Minnesota's Houston County, just west of La Crosse, Wis.
by MPR News Staff

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Expat Venezuelan singers honor loved ones in MN Orchestra's multicultural masterpiece

Expat Venezuelan singers honor loved ones in MN Orchestra's multicultural masterpiece

An orchestral piece based on the Gospel According to Mark rounds out the Minnesota Orchestra’s summer celebration with a choir singing in Spanish, a huge percussion section and a troupe of dancers. There is, however, a bittersweet note to the concert as performers think of the people who they hoped would be there.
by Euan Kerr

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