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Morning Announcements for Aug. 24

Morning Announcements for Aug. 24

These are the Morning Announcements for Monday, Aug. 24. Tell us what you’re celebrating!
by MPR News Staff

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Thunderstorms return Monday night, a few isolated showers on morning commute

Thunderstorms return Monday night, a few isolated showers on morning commute

We have a risk of severe weather later Monday night in northwestern Minnesota. Another round of storms hits the northeast by Tuesday evening. We are a little warmer for the first weekend of the State Fair.
by Ben Cathey

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Judge orders federal government to justify spying at Minneapolis church

Judge orders federal government to justify spying at Minneapolis church

An alliance of churches involved in a February injunction filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to order the government to explain why it shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating the injunction.
by Jon Collins

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Forest Service ends campfire ban in the Boundary Waters

Forest Service ends campfire ban in the Boundary Waters

As of noon Monday, campfires are allowed again in open sections of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and other backcountry and remote areas in northeastern Minnesota.
by MPR News Staff

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St. Paul’s east side set to lose public library in mayor’s proposed budget cuts

St. Paul’s east side set to lose public library in mayor’s proposed budget cuts

St. Paul Mayor Kaholy Her's proposed budget would shut down Dayton’s Bluff library on the city’s east side. Maree Lee and Kmari Watson come to the library almost every day and consider it a second home. They don’t know where they’ll go without it.
by Ahmed Hassan

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New 'Immunize Minnesota' coalition hopes to break down public health silos around vaccines

New 'Immunize Minnesota' coalition hopes to break down public health silos around vaccines

Immunize Minnesota so far has ten organizations and 30 individuals as part of its coalition. It hopes to be a central place to help educate and advocate around immunization across the state.
by Nina Moini and Aleesa Kuznetsov

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How U.S.-Canada trade war could impact states like Minnesota

How U.S.-Canada trade war could impact states like Minnesota

President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on scores of Canadian imports kicked in over the weekend. Canada is now threatening retaliatory tariffs. Economist Livio Di Matteo said about 25 percent of Minnesota’s exports go to Canada. In North Dakota, that number is 80 percent.
by Nina Moini and Ellen Finn

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Teachers call for Target boycott over ICE response

Teachers call for Target boycott over ICE response

A union is urging parents and teachers to do back-to-school shopping elsewhere, citing Target’s decision not to call for an end to the surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities earlier this year.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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One dead after utility pole falls onto vehicle in Hopkins

Hopkins police and fire officials said the pole fell onto a vehicle, which then caught fire. One person inside the vehicle died.
by MPR News Staff

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Thousands forced to evacuate parts of Reno, Nevada, as new wildfire rages

Officials say the fire, which has now burned more than 15,000 acres and is zero percent contained, was human caused. Nearly 90,000 people have been told to evacuate or prepare to leave.
by Maria Godoy

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Fair warning: How the Minnesota State Fair handles severe weather

Fair warning: How the Minnesota State Fair handles severe weather

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service's Chanhassen office are stationed inside the fair's emergency operations center throughout the fair.
by Mandy Thalhuber

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Sean Grayson, former deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says

Sean Grayson, former deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.
by The Associated Press

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Lindell faces deadline to put up money by Monday for a hand recount of Minnesota’s primary ballots

Lindell, has been disputing the primary results — even though House Speaker Lisa Demuth beat him by about forty five thousand votes. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has awarded $2 million in Indian Child Welfare Act off-reservation grants to seven Native organizations, including a legal nonprofit in Minneapolis.
by Phineas Pope

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Storm chances early in the week, comfortable start to the fair

Storm chances early in the week, comfortable start to the fair

Minnesota is in for a more active stretch of weather over the next couple of days, with thunderstorms possible Monday night into Tuesday morning and again Tuesday afternoon and evening. A calm stretch expected for the start of the Minnesota State Fair.
by Mandy Thalhuber

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What's next for residents caught in the middle of Minnesota group home scandals

What's next for residents caught in the middle of Minnesota group home scandals

Hennepin County case workers are moving quickly to find new homes for residents displaced from five group homes last week. The facilities are caught up in two scandals, with some linked to a sex trafficking ring and others tied to a high-ranking Liberian government official.
by Ellie Roth, Jennifer Lu, Lili Euzet and Christopher Peak

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Historic Kern Bridge, now refurbished, to be installed at new location in Mankato

Historic Kern Bridge, now refurbished, to be installed at new location in Mankato

The historic, 189-foot-long Kern Bridge, was lifted off its crumbling abutments along the Le Sueur River nearly six years ago with two heavy cranes. It had spanned the river south of Mankato since it was built in 1873, only 15 years after Minnesota became a state.
by Hannah Yang

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Beloved ‘Info Booth Ladies’ brace for first Minnesota State Fair since member’s death

Beloved ‘Info Booth Ladies’ brace for first Minnesota State Fair since member’s death

Since 2021, Kristen Donaldson, Margie McCarron and Kathy Riewe have hosted “Info Booth Ladies,” the unofficial Minnesota State Fair podcast. Since Riewe died this spring, Donaldson and McCarron are deciding how to do the fair without her.
by Sam Stroozas

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For these goats in Minnesota parks, invasive plants are on the menu

For these goats in Minnesota parks, invasive plants are on the menu

As you may have seen — and heard — in your neighborhood, goats have been hired by cities or private landowners across Minnesota for years now, to help control invasive species such as buckthorn. Research shows they can bring added benefits to the landscape.
by Phineas Pope

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