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Stories from May 25, 2020

The Thread: Works to celebrate our doctors and nurses

The Thread: Works to celebrate our doctors and nurses

In the midst of this pandemic, we’re acknowledging the risks and the sacrifices being made each day by our doctors and nurses. In this week’s Thread, Kerri Miller offers up a poem, a memoir and a romance novel.
by Kerri Miller

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Active weather continues into Tuesday

Period of showers and storms continue through Tuesday, including an isolated risk for stronger storms in southeastern Minnesota. Temperatures for the rest of the week remain mostly above average.
by Nicole Mitchell

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WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial over safety concerns

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial over safety concerns

The WHO cited a scientific study published last week suggesting that proposed COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroqine may do more harm than good in halting its study to review data.
by Jason Beaubien

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Minnesota Memorial Day ceremonies mark sacrifice, virtually

Minnesota Memorial Day ceremonies mark sacrifice, virtually

Across Minnesota, veterans’ groups and others remembered the sacrifices of those who served with pre-recorded elements common to such events, including speeches and rifle salutes by squads wearing protective face-coverings.
by MPR News Staff

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Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months

Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months

Joe Biden has marked Memorial Day by honoring veterans at a park near his Delaware home. It's the first time the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has ventured back on the campaign trail in more than two months and a signal a presidential race frozen by the coronavirus has begun to thaw ever so slightly.
by The Associated Press

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A virtual memorial day

Thousands of people usually gather in Minnesota cemeteries each year for Memorial Day services, to honor veterans who have died while serving the country. But not this year. Instead, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs has created a virtual Memorial Day program, which will air on PBS stations around the state and stream online. More on that story, and our interview remembering the life of Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut John Glenn. MPR News update for Monday, May 25, 2020. Hosted by Britta Greene. Music in this episode from Blue Dot Sessions -- Open Flames & Li Fonte

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Remembering Minnesotans we've lost to COVID-19

Remembering Minnesotans we've lost to COVID-19

More than 800 Minnesotans have died from COVID-19. This pandemic has changed the way we grieve and mourn. On this special broadcast, we want to take time to acknowledge this moment we are living in and share stories of Minnesotans we lost to COVID-19. 
by Angela Davis and Karen Zamora

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Poll: Walz approval at 65 percent, most support vote by mail

Poll: Walz approval at 65 percent, most support vote by mail

A new MPR News/Star Tribune/KARE 11 Minnesota Poll shows nearly two-thirds of Minnesotans approve of the job Gov. Tim Walz is doing. And 59 percent say they support allowing every Minnesota voter to be sent a ballot to vote by mail in November.
by Tim Pugmire

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'He never took anything for granted': Ad man remembered for support of arts, 'world-famous' pasta

'He never took anything for granted': Ad man remembered for support of arts, 'world-famous' pasta

Conrad Razidlo was an ad man and an artist, active in politics, the arts — and his family’s epic pasta competitions. He died April 13, of complications from COVID-19. He was 85.
by Angela Davis and Meg Martin

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Trump threatens to move RNC without assurances from governor

Trump threatens to move RNC without assurances from governor

President Donald Trump is threatening to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump’s tweets Monday about the RNC planned for Charlotte come just two days after the state recorded its largest daily increase in positive cases yet. 
by The Associated Press

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Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day in twin events

Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day in twin events

President Donald Trump has honored America’s fallen service members as he commemorates Memorial Day in the midst of a pandemic.

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Memorial Day 'Honor Flights' canceled because of coronavirus crisis

Memorial Day 'Honor Flights' canceled because of coronavirus crisis

Thousands of people who were planning to visit war memorials in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day had to cancel this year. That includes veterans traveling with the nonprofit network Honor Flight.
by Quil Lawrence

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Scattered showers and storms through Tuesday

The weather pattern stays active through Tuesday, with intermittent showers and storms moving across the state.  Temperatures all week are likely to stay above average.
by Nicole Mitchell

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Clouds, fog, and occasional wet weather for Memorial Day

Memorial Day brings more scattered showers and storms, along with plenty of dry breaks through the day.  Warm weather means a few more parts of Minnesota could see their first 80s of the year.
by Nicole Mitchell

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May 25 update on COVID-19 in MN: Hospitalizations rise to new high

May 25 update on COVID-19 in MN: Hospitalizations rise to new high

Minnesota hospitals are treating 605 patients for COVID-19 and 248 in intensive care units, both new highs, according to data released Monday. State officials said last week that some hospitals had increased ICU capacity. The death toll is at 881 confirmed related to coronavirus infections.
by MPR News Staff

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'Lest We Forget': The voices of WWII veterans

'Lest We Forget': The voices of WWII veterans

The voices of World War II veterans collected by the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress.
by MPR News Staff

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