ICE agent charged with assault in alleged road rage incident may testify to move case to federal court
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An ICE agent charged with assault in an alleged road rage incident may testify Tuesday in his effort to get the case moved from state to federal court. Hennepin County prosecutors say agent Greg Morgan Jr. pointed a gun at a couple in a vehicle that cut him off in traffic. No one was injured.
President Donald Trump came off the sidelines in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race Monday. The president told an Ohio rally that voters in Minnesota should cast ballots for Republican nominee Michele Tafoya. It came as he accused Minnesota’s Somali community of being looters and perpetrators of violence.
Supporters of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar gathered at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis on Monday, hours after federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home. Elected officials and community organizers who spoke to the crowd called the search an extension of the federal government’s attacks on Minnesota’s immigrant community, and specifically an attack on Somali Americans.
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority is now accepting applications for a new state-funded housing voucher program. The state program, called Bring it Home, is funded by the new metro sales tax that went into effect a couple years ago. It’s modeled after Section 8 and is projected to help subsidize rent for an additional 4,400 people across the state.
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Despite the warm weather outside, the cold and flu season is here. And so are vaccination recommendations from health experts. Katherine Montag Schafer is a pharmacist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She told Minnesota Now that COVID-19 vaccination guidelines still recommend a dose for all adults 18 and older. She says the vaccine has been tweaked.
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