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🌞 Enjoy a sun-filled Tuesday. We’ll see highs back in the upper 70s and low 80s for many across Minnesota.

⛈️ Muggier air will return Wednesday and that combined with a disturbance will touch off the next chance of thunder.

Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
 
🗳️ It's primary day in Minnesota. Want to learn more about the candidates? Check out MPR News’ Voter Guides  where candidates answered why they are running, their background and their priorities for their time in office. These guides can be read in English, Spanish, Somali and Hmong and are freely available through our website and through Populist, where you can build an address-specific ballot. The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Find your polling place here.
 
Coming up on Morning Edition

Today is Minnesota's primary election. In Hennepin County, voters will help decide a highly anticipated Democratic race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and challenger Don Samuels. Hennepin County Elections Director Ginny Gelms and Minneapolis Director of Elections & Voter Services Katie Smith join Cathy Wurzer to talk about election security and what's anticipated to be a busy day at the polls.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have drastically different styles of campaigning. How do their speeches stack up, side-by-side? NPR's Steve Inskeep and Mara Liasson examine recent campaign trail addresses.
 
Coming up at 9 a.m.

🗞️ Tuesday you’ll hear part two in our Report for America conversation about the state of local news. Our first conversation was with local and national philanthropy leaders who want to build new ways for local news to thrive.

📻 This time, the focus is entirely on Minnesota. During an evening event on July 18 at the Weisman Art Museum, MPR News host Angela Davis talked with news leaders from across Minnesota about the challenges and opportunities for journalists in the current media landscape.
 
Primaries nail down who lands on Minnesota’s federal, state ballots

Before congressional and legislative candidates can direct their full attention to rivals in other parties, they must first get past challengers from within. Attention is mostly on contests for the U.S. Senate and House.

The primary sets the stage for a fall campaign that will decide who fills a U.S. Senate seat, eight U.S. House spots, all 134 Minnesota House seats and a winner-take-all contest for the state Senate majority.
 
Challenge of the DAMn-ed: 242 miles, 24 hours to bike across Minnesota

Nearly 500 bike riders put themselves to the test in The Day Across Minnesota endurance race, a sometimes brutal, single-day journey with only one goal: getting to the finish line before the clock strikes midnight. MPR News rode along during Sunday’s race. Here’s what we saw.
 
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👮🏻 Republicans are talking about Walz’s policing record. Why do voters in low-crime communities care? With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz now a vice-presidential candidate, his response to civil unrest in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder has become a campaign talking point. Paradoxically, the message that he’s soft on crime plays well in areas that experience little crime.

🍹 Hard kombucha soda, THC drink brewer hopes to expand business with marijuana license. When Ryan Appleby returned from an overseas deployment and found his body couldn’t handle beer anymore, he decided to create his own adult beverage.

🏛️ FBI is investigating after Trump campaign says Iran hacked sensitive documents. The FBI said Monday it is investigating allegations that sensitive documents from the Trump campaign were stolen in a cyber intrusion days after the campaign declared it had been hacked by Iran.

🪐 Mars and Jupiter pair up this week in a celestial dance unseen from Earth in years. Look up at the sky this week and you'll see Mars and Jupiter in a tight lineup not seen for years. On Wednesday, the two planets will be at their closest proximity to each other from Earth's perspective since 2018.

🥇 Team USA has women to thank for more than half of its Olympic medals. If American women were their own country, they would rank third in the 2024 Olympic medal count. Women brought home 67 of Team USA’s 126 medals, though one remains in contention.

⚽ Here’s how you can keep finding new sports to love between now and the next Olympics. One of the attractions of watching the Olympics is getting sucked into and learning about sports you’ve barely heard of before. There are plenty of events even farther out on the fringe than the ones contested in Paris.


— Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News
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