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Tuesday will be cooler with highs in the 70s across most of Minnesota. The next chance of rain will be late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and then again late Thursday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

📖 MPR News is asking readers about their favorite summer books. Email tell@mpr.org and share the read you reach for every summer at the lake or the beach.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition : Two CEOs with strong ties to north Minneapolis have plans to expand their companies in a section of the city that has long been in need of well paying jobs. Both projects are unique, but have one goal in common: To help build wealth in the community starting with good-paying jobs for northsiders.

🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m., MPR News host Angela Davis will talk to a university president and a historian about how the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action  will affect the future of higher education.

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Minneapolis police chief says he was unaware of new hire's past excessive force allegations

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said Monday that he did not know that a new officer was alleged to have used excessive force in a previous job before signing off on his hiring.

At a news conference, O'Hara said he knew that Timberlake had been involved in a critical incident but was unaware of the details until he saw the video later.

Tyler Timberlake, who’s white, tased Lamonta Gladney, who’s Black, and pressed his knees into Gladney’s neck and back during a 2020 incident in Fairfax County, Virginia.

 
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Appeals court says Minnesota governor had authority to impose mask mandate. Gov. Tim Walz had the legal authority to mandate face masks when he declared a public health emergency in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday.

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20 novels in 20 years: The recipe behind author David Housewright's private-eye series. David Housewright of St. Paul has received national recognition for his tales of murder and mayhem set in Minnesota. MPR News regional editor Euan Kerr talked with Housewright about his secret for keeping the same character interesting, book after book.

North Minneapolis community center plans to restore summer camp, collect oral histories. Phyllis Wheatley Community Center ran Camp Katharine Parsons in Watertown for more than 40 years as a place for young people to canoe, swim, build fires and build relationships to nature. The camp closed in the early 2000s, but the community center plans to restore and reopen it by 2025.

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