| Good morning! Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s north to mid-60s south. So here's a question: Do you have enough poetry in your life? In honor of National Poetry Month, The Thread is celebrating Poetry Fridays. Each Friday in April, The Thread will publish a selection of poetry from local independent publishing houses Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions and Coffee House Press. Today's selections come from Dana Gioia, William Brewer and Dawn Lundy Martin. | Forecast | Updraft weather blog |
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| The U.S. blasted a Syrian air base Thursday night with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. | U.S. strike on Syria is widely hailed, but angers Russia |
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| The shooting happened around 1 a.m. Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the fourth was taken to Regions Hospital with life-threatening injuries. |
| Senate Republicans unleashed the "nuclear option" on Thursday, essentially ensuring that Neil Gorsuch would be confirmed to the Supreme Court on Friday. He is expected to tow a conservative line. |
| The Mexican consulate in St. Paul has seen a more than 100 percent spike in applications for dual citizenship since the Trump administration announced its first travel ban in January. |
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| Zachary Todd Degraw, 23, is charged in Benton County District Court with two misdemeanor counts of fifth-degree assault and one gross misdemeanor count of assault motivated by bias. |
| Todd Axtell and community leaders are looking for ways to address police accountability after an arbitrator ruled to reinstate an officer fired for his use of force in a controversial arrest. |
| A DFLer who called out her "white male colleagues" for cardplaying during House debate inadvertently pulled back the veil on the chamber's "retiring room." Former Speaker Steve Sviggum tells MPR News what it's like, and not like. |
| But the Trump White House has fallen into a pattern of responding to criticism or inconvenient news with sometimes extreme countercharges, said the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. A Ramsey County judge has denied a request to move the trial of a St. Anthony police officer charged in the shooting death of Philando Castile last July. | The Philando Castile shooting City officials and local partners are looking to reconnect St. Cloud and its residents with the Mississippi by redeveloping a one-mile stretch of the riverfront from downtown north to St. Cloud Hospital. A concert on Sunday will give young and old players the chance to pay their respects to, and play with, their musical hero. | Arts & Culture |
