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ChangeMakers: Indigenous Minnesotans making history

ChangeMakers: Indigenous Minnesotans making history

Native American Heritage Month celebrates and honors the culture and heritage of Native Americans through time. This November, MPR News introduces you to Indigenous Minnesotans who are making history right now across the state. Each will discuss what being Indigenous in Minnesota means to them, a bit about their background and their hopes for the future.
by Evan Frost, Kathryn Styer Martinez, Jaida Grey Eagle and Christine T. Nguyen

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Stillwater prison inmate dies after testing positive for COVID-19

Stillwater prison inmate dies after testing positive for COVID-19

Minnesota corrections officials announced late Sunday that an inmate at the Stillwater prison died after testing positive for COVID-19. More than 750 of the 1,278 inmates at the Stillwater prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.
by MPR News Staff

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Video of Minnesota event altered to make it look like Biden greeted wrong state

Video of Minnesota event altered to make it look like Biden greeted wrong state

It's an awkward moment when a candidate greets a crowd and names the wrong state. Fortunately for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, that didn’t happen to him this week, despite a widely shared video that appears to show him saying “Hello, Minnesota” to a crowd in Florida.
by The Associated Press

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Nearly 1.7 million Minnesotans have cast ballots in early voting

Nearly 1.7 million Minnesotans have cast ballots in early voting

The Secretary of State’s Office says the surge in early voting has kept up in the final weekend before Election Day, with far more absentee ballots submitted than in any prior election. 
by Brian Bakst

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Thousands of goldfish removed from Twin Cities lake

Thousands of goldfish removed from Twin Cities lake

A few of the aquarium pets were likely dumped into the lake in Chaska. The combination of relatively poor water quality and few other predatory fish species allowed the goldfish to reproduce in massive numbers.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Minnesota ballot-tracking website restored after going down; database issues slow voting

Minnesota ballot-tracking website restored after going down; database issues slow voting

A website that Minnesotans can use to track their absentee ballots went down for more than an hour Saturday morning, along with other parts of the state’s online voter registration system — causing some longer wait times for early voting on an already-busy day.
by The Associated Press and MPR News Staff

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Oct. 31 update on COVID-19 in MN: Another day with 3,000+ new cases

Oct. 31 update on COVID-19 in MN: Another day with 3,000+ new cases

Skyrocketing new caseloads made this one of the worst weeks in one of the worst months for Minnesota in the pandemic. Hospitalizations, new cases and deaths rose steeply in October and appear poised to spill into November.
by MPR News Staff

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