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Stories from September 25, 2025

After a violent summer in Minneapolis, a plea for transparency

After a violent summer in Minneapolis, a plea for transparency

Minneapolis City Council member Katie Cashman is asking for crime clearance rates to be added to the city's public website, and for the police department to release the data as soon as the end of October.
by Gretchen Brown

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Weather winning streak continues into next week

Weather winning streak continues into next week

An unseasonably warm weather pattern brings temperatures 10 to 15 degrees warmer than normal into next week.
by Paul Huttner

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Mayoral candidate's building vandalized; DOJ sues Minnesota for voter registration data

State Senator and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh says his campaign office was vandalized this week with an Islamophobic message and threat graffitied on a wall. And the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota's top election official as it tries to unlock statewide voter registration data.
by Jacob Aloi

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Minnesota’s fall seasons are getting warmer

Minnesota’s fall seasons are getting warmer

Climate change is warming up Minnesota’s fall weather. MPR News chief meteorologist Paul Huttner talked with assistant state climatologist Peter Boulay about the state’s fastest-warming season.
by Paul Huttner and Matthew Alvarez

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St. Paul opens the taps at new water treatment facility

St. Paul opens the taps at new water treatment facility

St. Paul Regional Water Services opened a new treatment plant this week. The $250 million new facility replaces century-old infrastructure, and officials say it will now be easier to maintain.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Politics Friday: Walz sounds off on new book, 3rd term bid and a rift with Republicans

Politics Friday: Walz sounds off on new book, 3rd term bid and a rift with Republicans

Gov. Tim Walz is seeking a third term as Minnesota’s governor. MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst interviews Walz about his reelection campaign and challenges he’s confronting in the current term.
by Brian Bakst and Matthew Alvarez

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Minnesota family held hostage in $8M crypto kidnapping, Texas brothers charged

Minnesota family held hostage in $8M crypto kidnapping, Texas brothers charged

Federal prosecutors say Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Washington County family hostage for nine hours, holding them at gunpoint and forcing them to transfer millions in cryptocurrency. The incident triggered a massive law enforcement response and led Mahtomedi Public Schools to cancel its homecoming game out of caution.
by Matt Sepic

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Help me find a therapist

Help me find a therapist

Finding a therapist can be difficult. You’re in a vulnerable position. But two Minnesota therapists are trying to make finding a therapist more accessible by setting up therapist meet-and-greets at local breweries.
by Aleesa Kuznetsov

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Kerri Miller talks with David French about politics, democracy and 'the exhausted majority'

Kerri Miller talks with David French about politics, democracy and 'the exhausted majority'

David French, conservative opinion columnist for the New York Times, joined Kerri Miller in Red Wing on Thursday night, Sept. 18, for a conversation about politics, America’s divided democracy and how those in the “exhausted majority” can find a path forward.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid federal Medicaid funding cut

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid federal Medicaid funding cut

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says it will stop scheduling patients for abortions starting next week as it works to provide the service in the face of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill.
by The Associated Press

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Reporter's notebook: Bemidji storm exacerbated housing needs in the area

Reporter's notebook: Bemidji storm exacerbated housing needs in the area

It’s been almost three months since a storm tore through Beltrami County, producing straight-line winds equal to a Category 3 hurricane. Beltrami County is one of the poorest counties in Minnesota. Housing is hard to find. And the storm made that challenge even greater. 
by Nina Moini and Mathew Holding Eagle III

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New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations

New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations

The truth doesn’t come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France’s Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.
by Colin Dwyer

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Rare Fujiwhara dance may develop between two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic

Rare Fujiwhara dance may develop between two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic

As the busy Atlantic churns with multiple storms, forecasters are closely watching for signs of a rare Fujiwhara interaction, where two cyclones begin to rotate around each other and potentially shift course.
by Mandy Thalhuber

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Local autism advocates worry about stigma amid unfounded federal claims, fraud locally

Local autism advocates worry about stigma amid unfounded federal claims, fraud locally

President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.
by Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

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Rural Voice: Tribal rights and sovereignty

Rural Voice: Tribal rights and sovereignty

The 2025 season of Rural Voice kicked off Sept. 3 at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet with a town hall about tribal rights and sovereignty.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Authorities searching for man who escaped from work farm near Duluth; alleged accomplice arrested

Authorities searching for man who escaped from work farm near Duluth; alleged accomplice arrested

Authorities in northeastern Minnesota say they’re still looking for an inmate who walked away from a correctional facility near Duluth earlier this week — though they’re “moving from an active search to an ongoing investigation.”
by MPR News Staff

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime

Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.
by Alina Selyukh

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Israeli strikes kill at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza as leaders ramp up pressure for a ceasefire

Israeli strikes kill at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza as leaders ramp up pressure for a ceasefire

Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 10 children and three women, according to local health officials, as international pressure for a ceasefire continues to grow.
by The Associated Press

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Minneapolis mayoral candidate says his campaign office was vandalized

Minneapolis mayoral candidate says his campaign office was vandalized

Minneapolis mayoral candidate and state Sen. Omar Fateh says his campaign office was vandalized this week, with an Islamophobic message and threat graffitied on a wall.
by MPR News Staff

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Morning Announcements for Sept. 25

Morning Announcements for Sept. 25

These are the Morning Announcements for Thursday, Sept. 25. Tell us what you’re celebrating!
by MPR News Staff

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Photographer Sally Mann warns of ‘new era of culture wars’ after art seizure

Photographer Sally Mann warns of ‘new era of culture wars’ after art seizure

As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.
by Olivia Hampton

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Victim’s widow files the first lawsuit after January’s D.C.-area midair crash

Victim’s widow files the first lawsuit after January’s D.C.-area midair crash

Family members of a passenger who died in the January collision are suing American Airlines, PSA Airlines, and the federal government. It's the first of what could be dozens of lawsuits.
by Joel Rose

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One person found dead after fire in Minneapolis duplex

The Minneapolis Fire Department said the fire was reported just after 11:15 p.m. Wednesday on 22nd Avenue Northeast, just west of Central Avenue.
by MPR News Staff

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Top-seeded Lynx lament losing their usual composure and a big lead in letting Mercury tie the series

Top-seeded Lynx lament losing their usual composure and a big lead in letting Mercury tie the series

The Minnesota Lynx squandered a 20-point lead in the third quarter of Game 2 of their semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury and took an 89-83 overtime loss. The Lynx uncharacteristically lost their composure down the stretch and made several costly mistakes.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota Department of Health holds hearing about closures at two Allina Health hospitals

The Minnesota Department of Health is holding a public hearing Thursday in response to service closures at two Allina Health hospitals. On the agenda is the planned closure of Allina Health's inpatient chemical dependency unit at Mercy Hospital-Unity Campus and changes to the kidney transplant program at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
by Emily Bright

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More chances at 80 degrees ahead

More chances at 80 degrees ahead

Southern Minnesota will see highs near 80 degrees Thursday with more chances into early next week. The pattern remains dry and quiet overall.
by Sven Sundgaard

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A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway

A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
by Andrea Hsu

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Vaccine confusion? 5 Minnesota questions, answered

Vaccine confusion? 5 Minnesota questions, answered

Minnesotans may be struggling to navigate a blizzard of state and federal news last week around vaccines, who should get them and when. Here are some answers to key questions about what’s happening. 
by Erica Zurek, Molly Castle Work and Kyra Miles

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The once famous, trailblazing Minnesota nature writer you’ve probably never heard of

The once famous, trailblazing Minnesota nature writer you’ve probably never heard of

Helen Hoover was a Chicago scientist who moved to a remote cabin on the Gunflint Trail in the 1950s. She wrote several popular books about her experiences and the wildlife she observed. But her fame led her to move away and she largely faded from memory. 
by Dan Kraker

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Feds drop hate crime charges in Belle Plaine assault, state charges remain

Feds drop hate crime charges in Belle Plaine assault, state charges remain

Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped federal hate crime charges against a white man who's accused of attacking a Black man outside a Belle Plaine bar. A state case remains active.
by Matt Sepic

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