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Expect our warm humid days to continue through the upcoming weekend. Isolated thunder cells may fire again this afternoon Get the latest on Updraft.
Dreamland: then and now

Anthony Brutus Cassius broke ground in Minneapolis in the 1940s as a labor organizer and then as the first Black man to get a liquor license in the city. His aim was to create safe social spaces for Black people. Eighty years later, Mecca Bos explores his legacy.
 
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Minneapolis Council member: State Troopers will bolster Minneapolis Police. Minneapolis City Council member Michael Rainville says Governor Walz is sending in 20 state troopers, as confirmed by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, to help Minneapolis with policing in the interim.

Frey nominates veteran officer to head new community safety agencyIf confirmed by the city council, Alexander would head a proposed Office of Community Safety that would oversee the police and fire departments, the city’s 911 system, as well as the existing violence prevention and emergency management offices. 

Yellowstone floods reveal forecasting flaws in warming world. As a cleanup expected to last months grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate change: Models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating rainstorms, hurricanes, heat waves and other events. 

Indiana's abortion laws may tighten before Legislature acts. Indiana’s abortion laws will likely be tightened even before the Legislature is expected to start debating additional abortion restrictions later this month.
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