Flights, banking disrupted + Leech Lake land returned
⛅ Friday brings partly cloudy skies to Minnesota once again. High temperatures will be in the 70s and 80s Friday afternoon. It'll be a few degrees cooler by your favorite Great Lake.
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| Coming up on Morning Edition |
A Microsoft outage is disrupting banks, media outlets, 911 systems and other systems worldwide. Airlines are also affected with dozens of flights at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport impacted. Jeff Lea with the Metropolitan Airports Commission joins us with an update on travel trouble.
And the city of Minneapolis has a new director of civil rights. Michelle Phillips, who has extensive experience in civilian oversight of police in Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore, took over the office this week. She joins us to share how her office will play a key role in implementing reform within the Minneapolis Police Department. |
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| Coming up at 11a.m. |
📖 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon says it took years for the ideas in her new novel, “One of Our Kind,” to marinate. But once she started writing, it only took her six weeks to write this satire about race and privilege.
📻 On this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, Yoon joins MPR News host Kerri Miller to talk about what led her to write a book about finding the sinister in a Shangri-la. When does our natural bent to protect and enjoy become destructive? What is the true meaning of community? |
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| | Widespread technology outage disrupts flights and banking in Minnesota and around the world |
A global computer glitch, apparently triggered by software distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, caused widespread global outages late Thursday and into Friday morning.
As of 7:15 a.m. Friday, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was reporting more than 110 delayed or canceled flights amid the outage. Delta, Sun Country, American and United flights were among those affected. | |
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| | Leech Lake band celebrates the transfer of 11,000 acres that represent what was illegally taken |
Chairman Faron Jackson Sr. described the transfer as “the largest achievement by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to restore the land base of our permanent homeland since it was originally established.”
An emotional Jackson told the assembled audience Wednesday at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Bena, “to us, to me, it feels like it’s a relative,” said Jackson. “It’s a relative of ours.” | |
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🖥️ From a basement lab to computers worldwide, Concordia College digitizes thousands of species. After languishing for decades — in some cases more than a century — in Minnesota museum collections, more than 1 million bugs, birds and other specimens are now being offered to a new audience.
🚛 Law change aims to ease truck driver testing backlog. Carl Borleis with the Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence said the delay is affecting hundreds of students who complete a truck driving course at schools across the state.
☕ Listen: Thank You, Stranger: A barista never knew one regulars’ name, but years later reconnected in a special way. Moriah Stephens was a barista at Caribou Coffee for more than eight years in St. Louis Park. More than 10 years after hanging up her apron, she was having coffee when she ran into a regular and reconnected.
📺 Lou Dobbs, the controversial Fox News host, has died. Dobbs — a former CNN business correspondent — was most known for his time under the Fox News umbrella, where he carved out a niche as a voice of conservatism, being particularly vocal in his criticism of former President Obama and in his praise of former President Trump.
— Sam Stroozas and Nicole Johnson, MPR News |
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