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Temperatures will dip into the 30s across most of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin Wednesday morning and 40s in the Twin Cities. Highs will reach the 70s again in western Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: A book challenged by library patrons around the country will stay in a southwest Twin Cities metro system. Last night, the Carver County Library Board voted to keep the graphic novel "Gender Queer: A Memoir" on its shelves. Alex V. Cipolle reports.

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Carver library board declines to remove "Gender Queer" from shelves

A Twin Cities metro library system has decided to keep a memoir told in graphic novel form on its shelves after a request to remove it. On Tuesday, the Carver County Library Board voted to keep “Gender Queer: A Memoir” available to check out after dozens of supporters of the book testified during a public hearing.

“It’s up to the parents to decide what their kids read,” Library Board President Charles Teh said.

Written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe, “Gender Queer” is at the top of the American Library Association's most challenged books list.
 
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North Oaks teen is youngest American girl to become chess international master

After earning the second-best ranking in chess at the age of 13 in June, Alice Lee looks to snag grandmaster title next. 

“Each game is a whole new game,” said Alice, who lives in North Oaks, Minn. “And that’s really great about chess, because you have a new opportunity for every single game that you play.”
 
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Minnesota author Benjamin Percy on 'The Sky Vault' and writing Wolverine comic books. Author Benjamin Percy launched his new novel, "The Sky Vault,” Tuesday night.  It’s going to be a big month for him because he’s also releasing a new series in his other life as a writer of the Wolverine comic book.

Boyfriend 'waterboarded' St. Kate's student during 4-day dorm assault, charges allege. A Granite Falls man is facing multiple felony charges over allegations that he physically and sexually assaulted a St. Catherine University student in her dorm room over four days.

CDC advisers back broad rollout of new COVID boosters. A panel of doctors and scientists advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend that people 6 months of age and older get new COVID boosters this fall.

How deaf education has changed in Minnesota over 160 years. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with Director Jody Olson and school psychologist Heather Breitbach about the history of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, and how its mission has shifted.

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