Good morning, Minnesota. It's the last Friday of the month!
Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🥶 Highs Friday and Saturday will likely not reach 20 degrees even for most of Minnesota. We should see some sunshine break out however by late Friday and Saturday.
💨 Wind chill values will range from 0 to as cold as 15 below zero early Friday morning.
While Minnesota passed the PRO Act last year protecting abortion access statewide, residents say they are still worried what the upcoming Trump-Vance administration could do.
Planned Parenthood North Central States recently reported it has seen a 150 percent increase in patients scheduling appointments for long-acting birth control options like implants and intrauterine devices, or IUDs, since Trump won.
Other Minnesota health care systems like Mayo Clinic, HealthPartners, Allina Health and more said it is too early to tell if their systems are experiencing the same increase.
🛒 More deals, more spending: What Black Friday has in store. This holiday shopping season is poised to break spending records. A new survey finds people plan to spend $771 on average.
🎞️ Cube Critics get Glicked, seeing both ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’. “Wicked” is the winter blockbuster everyone’s been anticipating; “Gladiator II,” meanwhile, pales in comparison to its predecessor.
🛍️ Why retailers still see Black Friday as the high point of the holiday shopping season. Retailers see the day after Thanksgiving as a way to get shoppers into physical stores. Mall of America, for instance, is giving the first 200 people in line at the center's north entrance a $25 gift card.
🏀 Anthony Edwards calls his struggling Timberwolves 'soft' and 'just a bunch of little kids'. The Minnesota Timberwolves star was particularly candid in a profanity-laced explanation of his team’s recent struggles following a 115-104 loss to the Sacramento Kings.
📝 Israel and Hezbollah have a cease-fire agreement. Here's what it says. The cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel brokered by the United States and France was characterized by President Joe Biden as an attempt to deliver a "permanent cessation of hostilities."
🎄 O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, which is more sustainable: real or plasticky?
🎧 Sniffles? Cough? Just a little cold? How to keep yourself and others healthy this holiday. There's still time to get the benefits from a vaccine for upcoming holidays like Christmas and New Year’s Eve. For now, the basics of washing your hands and covering coughs and sneezes are a good start.
🎧 ‘Fire in the Village’ highlights our profound and often ignored connection to the earth. The arts collective is wrapping up their statewide tour with a Decolonize Thanksgiving Show at Hook and Ladder Theatre in Minneapolis on Friday, Nov. 29.
