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Stories from February 19, 2025

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign

As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.
by Will Stone

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Minneapolis public schools budget shortfall; Delta plane crash update

The Minneapolis public school district met this week to discuss strategies to close its $75 million budget shortfall, and Delta Air Lines says all but one of the passengers injured when a flight from Minneapolis crashed while landing in Toronto on Monday has been released from the hospital.
by Emily Reese

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Wisconsin’s Northland College to close at the end of the academic year

Wisconsin’s Northland College to close at the end of the academic year

In early 2024, it was unclear whether Northland would continue but the college announced it would drastically reduce its majors and cut staff. Despite these efforts, the board chair said the school no longer has the resources to continue.
by MPR News Staff

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Clear skies overnight with subzero temperatures continuing

Clear skies overnight with subzero temperatures continuing

We’re nearly out of the deep freeze! Another cold subzero night ahead, with lows dipping into the single digits and teens below zero. As skies clear overnight, Thursday will bring sunshine and a warmer day, with highs climbing back into the double digits above zero!
by Mandy Thalhuber

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Minnesota bill seeks to disable AI tech used to create nude or sexual images of people

Minnesota bill seeks to disable AI tech used to create nude or sexual images of people

The plan would require artificial intelligence companies to deactivate a feature that allows users to make people appear naked or engaged in sexual acts in photos or videos without their consent.
by Dana Ferguson, Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

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Lawmaker who led state to require ethnic studies in schools decries effort to undo it

Lawmaker who led state to require ethnic studies in schools decries effort to undo it

State Rep. Samantha Sencer-Mura, DFL-Minneapolis, authored the bill that set ethnic studies standards a few years ago. She joined Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer on Wednesday in response to Republican Rep. Ron Kresha’s legislation.
by Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton

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‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts

‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts

The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis has rejected a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts due to new federal restrictions barring grant recipients from promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and gender ideology, joining a growing number of arts organizations nationwide in condemning the policy.
by Alex V. Cipolle

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Twin Cities Green Book sites were touchstones for Black travelers in the segregation era

Twin Cities Green Book sites were touchstones for Black travelers in the segregation era

During the era of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, 87 locations in Minnesota were listed in the Green Book, which helped Black travelers find businesses that would serve them. But less than a quarter of these sites in Minnesota remain standing today.
by Nina Moini and Ellie Roth

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Proposed law would help train cosmetologists to address domestic violence

Minnesota’s U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is promoting bipartisan legislation that would provide federal funding for domestic violence awareness training for cosmetologists and beauty professionals.
by Nina Moini and Ellie Roth

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Minnesota business leader among thousands of federal workers axed in Trump cuts

Minnesota business leader among thousands of federal workers axed in Trump cuts

Thousands of probationary employees who have not been in their jobs long enough to qualify for certain protections have been terminated by federal agencies around the country, including in Minnesota.
by Nina Moini and Ellie Roth

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Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms

Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms

From the pinstripes of New York to the Dodger blues of Los Angeles, there is a strong connection among the clubhouse staffers who wash the uniforms of the major leagues. Just like the players who wear the jerseys.
by The Associated Press

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What you need to know about bird flu

What you need to know about bird flu

More people, livestock and wildlife in the U.S. are testing positive for bird flu. MPR News host Angela Davis and her guest discuss what you need to know about how the avian influenza virus is changing, who is at risk, and how to prevent its spread.
by Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer

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Garcia scores season-high 32 points and Minnesota completes L.A. rally beating UCLA 64-61

Garcia scores season-high 32 points and Minnesota completes L.A. rally beating UCLA 64-61

Dawson Garcia scored a 27 of his season-high 32 points after halftime and Minnesota staged another dramatic rally this time beating UCLA 64-61. Lu’Cye Patterson’s layup with eight seconds left gave Minnesota the lead for good at 62-61. Garcia made two foul shots with .9 seconds to go to seal it. UCLA’s desperation heave wasn’t close.
by The Associated Press

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Maddie Rooney makes 21 saves, Frost blank PWHL-leading Victoire 4-0

Maddie Rooney makes 21 saves, Frost blank PWHL-leading Victoire 4-0

Maddie Rooney made 21 saves for her first shutout this season to lead the Minnesota Frost past the league-leading Montreal Victoire 4-0 on Tuesday night. Denisa Krizova scored twice — including an empty-netter — and Liz Schepers and Kendall Coyne Schofield also scored for Minnesota.
by The Associated Press

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Is Trump preparing to cancel America’s ride back to the moon?

Is Trump preparing to cancel America’s ride back to the moon?

President Trump launched the Artemis program to return U.S. astronauts to the moon for the first time since Apollo. Now, the plan could be a casualty of the cost-cutting drive overseen by Elon Musk.
by Scott Neuman

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Questions emerge about what may have caused Delta plane to burst into flames and flip over

Questions emerge about what may have caused Delta plane to burst into flames and flip over

Aviation experts say investigators will consider the weather conditions, as well as the possibility of human error or an aircraft malfunction as they try to determine why a Delta Air Lines jet burst into flames and flipped upside down as it tried to land in Toronto. 
by The Associated Press

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Witness-tampering allegations raised in Feeding Our Future trial. Leonard Peltier returns home

A prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future trial on Tuesday raised allegations of witness tampering. And Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is now out of prison and back home in North Dakota.
by Phil Picardi

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DOJ asks for pause in Minneapolis police federal consent decree

DOJ asks for pause in Minneapolis police federal consent decree

A few days into his new administration, President Donald Trump’s DOJ leadership issued a memo directing attorneys to provide notice of any court-enforceable agreements to reform police agencies that had been finalized within the last 90 days. The memo said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements.
by Cari Spencer

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Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison

After nearly 50 years of incarceration, Native American political activist Leonard Peltier has been released from prison. Former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence in January before leaving office. In 1977 Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents. 
by Allison Herrera and Chandra Colvin

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A federal judge has denied states‘ bid to halt DOGE and Musk‘s work

A federal judge has denied states‘ bid to halt DOGE and Musk‘s work

A federal judge has denied a bid to temporarily halt DOGE from its controversial work at certain federal agencies. Meanwhile, the White House says Elon Musk is not technically DOGE’s leader.
by Stephen Fowler

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83 years after mass incarceration, Japanese Americans warn it could happen again

83 years after mass incarceration, Japanese Americans warn it could happen again

Executive Order 9066 led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Vinicius Taguchi of the Japanese American Citizens League sees parallels between this troubling history and the present.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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