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☀️ A fire weather watch has been issued for Tuesday for a good chunk of Minnesota. High temperatures will gradually warm this week. Highs will reach 60 degrees in most of western Minnesota Tuesday. Get the latest on Updraft.

🎧 When violence erupts, it creates a shock wave that impacts entire communities. The trauma embeds itself in both victims and perpetrators, and like a virus, it often spreads and multiplies. How do we break the cycle?

Last week, MPR News host Angela Davis sat down with community leaders for a live In Focus conversation. How does violent crime wound us, and how can we allow those wounds to heal? What are some new and creative strategies to inoculate communities from the contagion of violence? Listen to the discussion at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
 
Experts: More research needed on 'red flag' laws

Minnesota lawmakers are considering a proposal to allow guns to be temporarily taken away from people who pose a risk to themselves or others. But there’s not a lot of evidence about whether red flag laws actually reduce gun deaths.

“There's never going to be one policy that ends all gun deaths in Minnesota in one fell swoop,” Maggie Emery said. “But I think anything that we can do to save any life, even if this policy saves only one life next year, it's still going to be worth it.”
 
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Minnesota Legislature chooses three new U of M regents ahead of leadership decisions. The new members join as the board prepares for a meeting later this week to review candidates to lead the school on an interim basis following the departure of current president Joan Gabel. 

Sudanese community in Minnesota fighting for loved ones caught in conflict. “People just like me, who don't have the expertise, are putting their time and effort into coordinating the evacuation of all these people because there is no help,” Sudanese Minnesotan Mohamed Yousif said.

From Somalia to Yemen to the U.S., Minneapolis woman finds a home — and a voice. Green Card Voices is an immigrant-led, nonprofit publishing organization based in Minneapolis. It uses the art of storytelling to share personal narratives of immigrants and refugees.

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84. But "the legend lives on" in his songs, like "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes.

Ask a Bookseller: 'Blood Debts' combines family secrets, political intrigue and magic. Shelby Devitt of BookPeople in Austin, TX recommends a contemporary fantasy YA novel, “Blood Debts” by Terry J. Benton-Walker. 
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Minnesota Public Radio and the Star Tribune are taking Talking Volumes on the road with two special events in Greater Minnesota this May. These special Talking Volumes pop-up events will be hosted by award-winning journalist Kerri Miller.
 
Join us on May 6 at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester as Kerri sits down with author and illustrator of the "CatStronauts" series and "Waffles and Pancake" series, Drew Brockington. 
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We will head north to Duluth for our second spring Talking Volumes event where Kerri will interview William Kent Krueger at Mitchell Auditorium at the College of St. Scholastica on May 18. 
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