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For one Globetrotter, the game is as much about connection as basketball

For one Globetrotter, the game is as much about connection as basketball

As the Harlem Globetrotters tour the country, veteran player Fatima “TNT” Lister reflects on a career built around performance, community connection and the responsibility of being a highly visible woman in a historically male, century-old basketball institution.
by Anika Besst

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Coyne Schofield scores 2 goals as U.S. routs Italy 6-0 to advance to Olympic women's hockey semifinals

Coyne Schofield scores 2 goals as U.S. routs Italy 6-0 to advance to Olympic women's hockey semifinals

Kendall Coyne Schofield scored twice and top-seeded United States routed Olympic host Italy 6-0 in a lopsided, festive and sometimes chippy women’s hockey quarterfinal at the Milan Cortina Games.
by The Associated Press

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Feds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis

Feds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis

Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men.
by The Associated Press

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MN Shortlist, Feb. 13–19: Love songs, hard truths and a long winter

MN Shortlist, Feb. 13–19: Love songs, hard truths and a long winter

February refuses to pick a lane. The week toggles between romance and reckoning, spectacle and intimacy: Valentine’s cabaret one night, Iron Range existentialism the next. From touring Ukrainian ballet to hometown roots tributes and museum shows that question the ground they stand on, these picks point somewhere to look when winter starts to drag.
by Jacob Aloi, Anika Besst, Alex V. Cipolle and Max Sparber

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Frey calls on feds, state to help pay ICE surge costs in Minneapolis

Frey calls on feds, state to help pay ICE surge costs in Minneapolis

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Friday estimated the financial and economic cost to the city from the surge of federal immigration agents to be at least $203 million and said he’ll ask state and federal authorities to help foot the bill.
by MPR News Staff

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Lindsey Vonn hopes to go home after another surgery following crash in Olympic downhill

Lindsey Vonn hopes to go home after another surgery following crash in Olympic downhill

Lindsey Vonn says she will have another surgery on her broken left leg Saturday at the Italian hospital treating her “and then I can potentially leave and go back home.” Vonn posted a video message on Instagram following her horrific crash in the Olympic downhill at the Milan Cortina Games. 
by The Associated Press

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What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend

What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire Saturday. Democrats say they won't help approve more funding until new restrictions are placed on federal immigration operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis last month.
by The Associated Press

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Journalist Don Lemon set to be arraigned in Minnesota church protest case

Journalist Don Lemon set to be arraigned in Minnesota church protest case

Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon is set to be arraigned in federal court in Minnesota on Friday, along with four other defendants indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a service at a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was a pastor.
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