Our drought (and my garden bed) needs this: Patchy areas of showers and thunderstorms will pop in and out Saturday and Sunday. Get the latest on Updraft.
A two-year federal probe of the MPD finds the police racially discriminate against Black and Native people, use excessive force and “unjustified deadly force” in policing and violate the rights of peaceful protesters. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the findings “heartbreaking.”
Wildfire smoke gave us dangerously polluted air earlier this week, prompting the cancellation of many outdoor sporting events in the state. Air conditions have improved significantly since, giving participants one less reason to be short of breath this weekend. Good luck out there!
Set to step down from the Minnesota Supreme Court in October, Chief Justice Lorie Gildea still has a final Board of Pardons meeting ahead and is already relishing the chance to spend more time on her show horse, Goldy. But she wants it known her decision to depart shouldn’t be regarded as retirement.
Juneteenth — celebrated on Monday, June 19 — has been celebrated by Black Americans for decades. It marks the day the final enslaved African Americans learned they were free, a month after the American Civil War officially ended. Here is a guide to Juneteenth weekend events all around Minnesota.
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