This week on NewsCut, Bob Collins highlights Camila Silva, who tweeted that when her college pulled her scholarship after discovering she was undocumented. Her papi said "he'd cut his arm off," before she would drop out of college. She graduated from University of South Florida today. "That’s the story of parenthood in America and it has been for decades," Collins writes. | Forecast | NewsCut | Updraft
Most of the action of the play "High Fidelity" takes place in a record store. So it didn't take long for the creative team at Minneapolis Musical Theatre to hit upon the idea of producing the show, appropriately, in a record store. They chose the Electric Fetus, a pillar of Minneapolis' local music scene for 50 years.
Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor returned to court on Tuesday but entered no plea in the charges against him for the July killing of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk.
For the third time in a year, the Minnesota House approved legislation cracking down on protesters who impede freeway traffic, airport access roads or dedicated transit lines by allowing prosecutors to charge those involved in a blockade with gross misdemeanors.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the U.S. will pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran, dealing a profound blow to U.S. allies and potentially deepening the president's isolation on the world stage.
The national E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce that's sickened scores of people around the country has found its way to Minnesota. Ten illnesses linked to the lettuce grown in the Yuma, Ariz., area have been confirmed in Minnesota, the state Health Department said Tuesday.
Although the GOP repeal-and-replace mantra seems to have quieted, some Republican lawmakers continue efforts to get around the sweeping federal health law's requirements. Sometimes that happens in surprising places. Like the farm bill.
