| Good afternoon! Tonight is expected to be partly cloudy with a chance of light rain early on. In the Twin Cities area highs are in the 80s, lows in the 70s. Next week still looks ripe for the biggest heat wave of summer. NOAA's Global Forecast System model suggests the potential for five days in a row near or above 90 degrees next week. Protests ended in arrests near Minneapolis today. Authorities reopened traffic on southbound I-35W Wednesday at about 9:15 a.m. after protesters lined up across the interstate near downtown to protest police shootings. The Minnesota State Patrol arrested 41 protesters after about an hour on the freeway. Troopers towed away four cars that had initially blocked traffic. More | Forecast |
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| President Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke at an interfaith memorial service Tuesday afternoon for the five police officers murdered in Dallas last week. Obama acknowledged the pain of the racially charged shooting. "Faced with this violence we wonder if the divides of race in America can ever be bridged," he said. |
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| Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump fired at the Supreme Court justice after she called him a 'faker.' |
| So many things about this election are unprecedented -- and one of the most obvious is how much voters dislike the candidates. By now, everyone knows that this year features the two most unpopular presumptive major-party candidates on record. |
| Right now Juno is in an elongated orbit around Jupiter that takes it 53.5 days to make a single revolution. "JunoCam will continue to take images as we go around in this first orbit," said Candy Hansen, Juno co-investigator from the Planetary Science Institute, in a NASA news release. "The first high-resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter." |
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| There's an all-too familiar fight that takes place after horrible events like those in Dallas and Orlando, centered around firearms and how -- or even whether -- to regulate them. |
| The Senate bill, an amalgam of more than a dozen proposals, will expand access to medication-assisted treatment. It also will encourage police to send drug users to treatment rather than to jail. |
| The revision has been controversial for several reasons. The phrase "all lives matter" is often used by opponents and critics of the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| Hundreds of eateries selling chili-topped hot dogs dot Detroit. The story of how this food became the city's signature dish is deeply entwined with its auto industry and the workers who flocked to it. |
