MPR News AM Update
 
Thursday will continue to be hot in southern Minnesota, but temperatures will start to cool in the northwest as clouds and the chance of showers increase. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: The veterinary profession is one of the least ethnically and racially diverse professions in the country. Native Americans make up only about 1 percent of U.S. veterinarians. The group Natives in Vet Med are working to change that.

🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m.: MPR News host Angela Davis speaks with Donna Harris, the president of Minnehaha Academy and the first woman and the first person of color to lead the school in its 100-year-plus history.
 
Roe’s end brought big change to Minnesota and its neighbors

The Supreme Court’s decision last June to strike down Roe v. Wade triggered immediate abortion restrictions in many states. A year later, the legal landscape continues to shift. Here’s where things stand currently with Minnesota and other states across the Midwest. 

This is part three of a five-part series from MPR News examining the state of abortion in Minnesota one year after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
 
Abortion opponents say they’ll work to roll back Minnesota law changes

Minnesota lawmakers removed abortion restrictions this year and guaranteed access to abortion in state law. Groups opposed to abortion say those changes have energized their members and that they’ll mobilize Minnesotans to roll them back. 

This is part four of a five-part series from MPR News examining the state of abortion in Minnesota one year after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
 
What else we're watching:
Ponemah pet clinic part of campaign for more Indigenous veterinarians. Members of Natives in Vet Med volunteered at a pet clinic in Ponemah on the Red Lake Reservation this week. It was an important part of the organization’s campaign to get more Indigenous people working in the veterinary field. 

Expanding drought conditions stressing crops in parts of Minnesota. Drought has been a recurring foe for Minnesota farmers over the past few years. But this growing season, the problem has started abnormally early in parts of the state.

ChangeMakers: Aegor Ray advocates to decriminalize sex work in Minneapolis. He also wants to repeal the city's loitering ordinance, which he said unfairly targets Black and brown people.

Native community leaders want role in changes following feds' condemnation of MPD. The U.S. Justice department report listing civil rights violations by the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed what many in the city’s Native American population say they have experienced and raised some hope for improved treatment.

Monarch butterflies' white spots may help them fly farther, scientists say. Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

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