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How bad is Harvey? The National Weather Service had to add new colors to its rainfall map

You know it’s bad when the National Weather Service has to add a whole new color or two to its map depicting how much rain has fallen in southeastern Texas. #Harvey in perspective. So much rain has fallen, we've had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it. pic.twitter.com/Su7x2K1uuz…
by Nancy Yang

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How to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey

The devastation from the effects of Hurricane — now Tropical Storm — Harvey is still unfolding in Texas. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long said that 50 counties in Texas are affected by the flooding and that a tremendous amount of rainfall is in the cards for southwest Louisiana, The Associated Press reported. The…
by Nancy Yang

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Movie theater chain takes idea from a hater

Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a clown-only screening of "It."
by Cody Nelson

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You can’t trademark yellow, Cheerios

You can’t trademark yellow, Cheerios

The Cheerios’ shade of yellow isn’t “inherently distinctive” enough to qualify for a trademark, the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled this week. General Mills had spent the past two years trying to trademark “the color yellow appearing as the predominant uniform background color” on Cheerios boxes, Ars Technica reports. Turns out the Cheerios…
by Cody Nelson

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Swastika carved into green at Lakeville golf course

Mowers at the Crystal Lake public golf course found an unwelcome symbol on one of their greens earlier this week.
by Cody Nelson

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Let it all out: Tell us why you hate the fair

Let it all out: Tell us why you hate the fair

The State Fair has been unleashed: Twelve days of delectable fried foods, adorable baby farm animals and long-standing family traditions. Or, if you look at it another way, it’s nearly two weeks of traffic, sweaty crowds, people chugging milk and strangers parked on your front lawn. The State Fair may be the great Minnesota get-together,…
by Tracy Mumford

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A look inside white supremacists’ secret chat room

A look inside white supremacists’ secret chat room

Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit media collective, lets us peer inside the extreme-right's corners of the internet thanks to a trove of documents it was leaked.
by Cody Nelson

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Report: Minnesota 2nd worst state for racial inequality

Much of the Midwest has has grave inequality issues between black and white people, according to a study from 24/7 Wall St.
by Cody Nelson

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