Good morning! Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain in the late morning and afternoon across western Minnesota. Highs in the mid-40s to mid-50s. You'll probably be seeing this a lot in your social media feeds today: Model and Kardashian clan member Kendall Jenner's turn as a Pepsi-wielding protester has some on social media decrying the imagery as appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement. "The ad appropriates and trivializes social justice demonstrations for the purpose of selling soda pop," writes NewsCut blogger Bob Collins. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog |
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Activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site of the harrowing assault, one of the deadliest in Syria's civil war. | On the record: President Trump vs. private citizen Trump on Syria |
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Minnesota seniors are the fastest growing segment of homeless people, according to the Wilder Foundation homeless survey. | Minnesota officials aim to end chronic homelessness by 2018 |
Borrowers are "frightened," "anxious," "betrayed," at the suggestion that a federal student loan forgiveness program could be taken away. | A new look at the lasting consequences of student debt |
A federal appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act also protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, the first time a federal appellate court has come to that conclusion. |
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The so-called Minnesota Eight, children of people who survived the Khmer Rouge, have seen their numbers dwindle to four. |
Trump claimed on Tuesday before a group of CEOs that the Obama administration's stimulus package was a failed "infrastructure bill." That's not true. |
Twin Cities resident Yonathan Moya and his brother Jordan recently spent nine days traveling along the U.S.-Mexico border, taking pictures and talking to people along the way. |
The Minneapolis children's bookstore is stocked with more than 34,000 titles, as well as a chicken, three cats, one ferret, two doves, two chinchillas ... the list goes on. | More books: 'Hemingway didn't say that' (and neither did Twain or Kafka) |