🎧 At 12 p.m. don’t miss MPR News host Kerri Miller’s conversation with Annie Duke, a cognitive behaviorist who learned a thing or two about quitting during her years as a professional poker player. That’s on this Friday’s Big Books and Bold Ideas. Here's what else we have planned today.
If you’re in central and northern Minnesota you’ll enjoy a quiet and milder forecast as we head through Friday. Highs will range from the upper 20s northwest to the mid-30s south. Overall snowfall totals between 3 and 7 inches are likely by late Friday along the Interstate 90 corridor into northern Iowa. Get the latest on Updraft.
Minnesota lawmakers haven’t been able to pass a borrowing bill in two years, leading to a backlog in public construction projects around the state. Now, DFL leaders say getting it done will be a top priority.
Family members of the man shot and killed by St. Paul police joined other community members at a Saturday rally in calling for more transparency in the investigation.
WNBA star Brittney Griner didn’t want quiet time as soon as she boarded a U.S. government plane that would bring her home. “I’ve been in prison for 10 months, listening to the Russians. I want to talk,” Griner said, according to Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, who helped secure the basketball star’s release and bring her back to the U.S. last week.
NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon. The capsule made a blisteringly fast return Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a dramatic 25-day test flight. And the moon is a hopping place right now. Hours earlier Sunday, a spacecraft rocketed toward the moon from ispace , a Tokyo company intent on developing an economy up there.
