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The House gives final approval to Trump's big tax bill and sends it to him to sign
House Republicans have propelled President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage. Republicans overcame multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package Thursday before a Fourth of July deadline.
How a GOP rift over tech regulation doomed a ban on state AI laws in Trump’s tax bill
A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technologies or minimize such interference.
Iconic Palmer’s Bar in Minneapolis announces it will close in September
The 119-year-old Minneapolis gathering place and music venue Palmer’s Bar announced on social media late Wednesday that its final day of business will be Sept. 14. Palmer’s dates back to 1906.
Red Panda has fractured left wrist, released from hospital after fall at WNBA game
Red Panda, the popular performer who fell off her unicycle and crashed to the court during intermission of the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final between the Indiana Fever and the Minnesota Lynx, has a broken left wrist and will need further consultation with an orthopedic surgeon, the agency that represents her said Wednesday.
Prosecution moves forward after alleged Hortman assassin waives hearings
Vance Boelter made another brief appearance in a St. Paul federal courtroom Thursday, where he waived his right to the hearings that had been scheduled. Boelter is charged with killing former DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
Review: The Guthrie’s ‘Cabaret’ is a chilling look at how fascism happens
The Guthrie Theater’s production of “Cabaret” uses its familiar songs and story to show how escaping into entertainment can dull resistance to rising fascism, drawing clear parallels to today’s authoritarian threats.
After six years, on Fourth of July this lighthouse beacon will again sweep across Lake Superior
The old light broke in 2019. Volunteer lighthouse keepers raised $50,000 to purchase a new LED light from a Finnish company that mimics the historic lighthouse’s sweeping pattern across Agate Bay.
Radio Camp 2025 explores the work of Loft Literary Center writers and those who support them
Radio Camp this year focused on writers of fiction, poetry and memoir and the Minneapolis center where many teach. The Loft Literary Center offered interviewees so high school students could learn to research, interview and produce radio stories.