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Misty start to Monday clouds ligering, but a warmer afternoon with a high near 48 in central Minnesota with a chance for snow and a wintry mix in northeastern Minnesota and parts of northern Wisconsin. [Get weather updates from Updraft.] | |
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A white suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man, said she meant to use her Taser to try to stop him from fleeing during an attempted arrest but accidentally grabbed her gun instead.
Jury selection for Kim Potter's trial begins Tuesday. When prosecutors begin presenting their case next week, they'll argue that Potter, who quit the Brooklyn Center police force two days after the shooting, committed first- and second-degree manslaughter when she killed the 20-year-old Black man during an April 11 traffic stop. Here's a look at the charges and potential penalties.
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- People pass through Waterloo train station in London during the morning rush hour Monday. The omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries over the weekend, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
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Nations around the world sought Monday to keep the new omicron variant at bay with travel bans and further restrictions, even as it remains unclear what it means for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan announced it would suspend entry of all foreign visitors, while new cases of the variant identified days ago by researchers in South Africa appeared as far apart as Hong Kong, Australia and Portugal. Portuguese authorities were investigating whether some of the infections there could be among the first reported cases of local transmission of the variant outside of southern Africa.
The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders. | |
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- President Joe Biden is slated to visit a Twin Cities suburb this week to tout his $1 trillion infrastructure plan. The White House announced Friday that Biden will visit Rosemount on Tuesday — his first visit to Minnesota since taking office earlier this year.
🦉 A rare sighting, the first barn owl nest was documented in the state of Wisconsin in more than two decades after a La Crosse resident spotted an owlet in their backyard, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The bird has been an uncommon sight in Wisconsin, the DNR said in a release Thursday, and was put on the state's endangered species list for a time. The last nest was detected in Grant County in 1999 — until now.
📷 In northern Minnesota, not much can beat the pristine view – and the rush – of climbing a fire tower. Reaching 100 feet into the sky, there were once nearly 150 of these steel lookouts guarding the state's fire-prone forests. Photos: Handful of fire towers still stand sentinel over Minnesota bogs and forests
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