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Find a home for the homeless? It's no easy task in Minnesota

Find a home for the homeless? It's no easy task in Minnesota

Finding a Twin Cities landlord willing to work with someone who's homeless is a huge challenge, even when a tenant has the rent money, and even when the would-be tenant is a woman carrying a newborn.
by Max Nesterak

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The Lebanese who came to Minnesota a century ago

The Lebanese who came to Minnesota a century ago

During World War I, another humanitarian disaster drove immigration from the Middle East.
by Riham Feshir

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Fire burns tents at Minneapolis homeless camp; 1 treated

Fire burns tents at Minneapolis homeless camp; 1 treated

Multiple tents caught fire Monday at a homeless encampment but the Minneapolis Fire Department said much of the fire was extinguished quickly and one person was treated for smoke inhalation.
by Tim Nelson and Max Nesterak

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Chipotle offers manager job back in St. Paul dine-and-dash case

Chipotle is offering to rehire a St. Paul restaurant manager fired after receiving more information about an incident where employees refused to serve five black men and asked them to prove they could pay before taking their order.
by Martin Moylan

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Limiting screen time for your kid? It's harder than it looks

Limiting screen time for your kid? It's harder than it looks

Parents in many American households are finding the power struggles — tantrums, withdrawal and, in some cases, even school and discipline problems — difficult, especially as more kids get access to screens at younger and younger ages.
by Associated Press

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Virginia could be the state to give women equal rights nationwide

Virginia could be the state to give women equal rights nationwide

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in Virginia is working to make the state the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
by Whittney Evans

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Migrants get cool reception in Mexican border town

Migrants get cool reception in Mexican border town

Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants who have reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said Saturday they do not feel welcome in the city of Tijuana, where hundreds more migrants are headed after more than a month on the road.
by Associated Press

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St. Paul Chipotle manager fired after refusing to serve customers

The manager of a Chipotle restaurant in St. Paul has been fired after a video was posted online of employees asking a group of African-American men to prove they could pay before taking their order.
by MPR News Staff

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Facebook increasingly reliant on A.I. to predict suicide risk

Facebook increasingly reliant on A.I. to predict suicide risk

Ten times a day, on average, Facebook's artificial intelligence-driven detection system alerts authorities to someone who may be about to harm themselves.
by Martin Kaste

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The Green Book: Celebrating 'the bible of black travel'

The Green Book: Celebrating 'the bible of black travel'

For African-American families in the Jim Crow era, planning a vacation was like planning a military campaign. This guide book was essential for traveling safely.
by Karen Grigsby Bates

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