MPR News is broadcasting live from the Fargo-Moorhead area this week to talk agriculture and honor the retirement of our Moorhead reporter Dan Gunderson.
Air traffic controllers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are working without pay during the federal shutdown and urging travelers to contact lawmakers to help end it.
The Inspire Change Clinic is open to everyone in the community. Care will not focus solely on treating illness; there will also be space for clothing donations and assistance with resume writing.
A TikTok user reported the post to the FBI. Investigators say they connected the poster’s TikTok account to a Comcast internet address whose subscriber lives in St. Paul’s North End.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says an assistant principal in the Osseo school district sexually harassed a fourth-grade student. The agency is requiring the district to pay the student more than $61,000 and apologize.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza. This decision comes after an Israeli official reported that Hamas fired on Israeli forces in southern Gaza. Hamas has delayed handing over another hostage’s body in response to Israel’s planned strikes.
Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. Melissa made landfall Tuesday in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.
The Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index shows that GLP-1 weight loss drugs are having an effect: The U.S. obesity rate is at 37 percent, down from 39.9 percent.
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