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First Somali dance performance ‘such an honor’ at Timberwolves game Saturday
After years of pushing for it, Mohamoud O. Mohamed has secured the first-ever Somali dance performance at a Timberwolves game, with the Somali Museum Dance Troupe set to take the Target Center floor for the Saturday pre-show performance.
New, more flood-resilient bridge opens above High Falls in Tettegouche State Park
More than three years after a previous span was first damaged in major flooding, a new $1 million footbridge has opened above High Falls over the Baptism River in a popular North Shore park.
National Guard shooting suspect served in CIA counterterrorism unit, group says
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., had served in one of Afghanistan's elite counterterrorism units, according to a nonprofit run by people who served in Afghanistan.
Wisconsin seeks to block Morgan Geyser's conditional release after escape from group home
Wisconsin authorities have asked a state court to revoke the conditional release of Morgan Geyser, the woman who in 2014 almost killed her sixth grade classmate in the name of horror villain Slender Man and escaped from a group home earlier this week.
Telescope in Chile captures stunning new picture of a cosmic butterfly
Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away. At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago.
Timberwolves fall to Thunder, giving Oklahoma 10th straight win
Minnesota's Anthony Edwards scored 14 of his 31 points in the final 7:34 to make the game tight, but Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led his team by scoring 40 points, despite being listed as questionable due to illness.