Bright Thursday! The sun shined all over Minnesota today, though it still feels chilly with highs in the 20s and 30s. Prepare for another cold night. Get more on Updraft.
The Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx will evidently remain in the control of owner Glen Taylor, after he announced that a deal where Marc Lore and former baseball star Alex Rodriguez would have acquired the controlling stake in the team has expired.
Minnesota’s newly established ‘green bank’ announced its first loan this week: $4.7 million for a geothermal energy system at The Heights, an East Side development. The money from this loan will go toward infrastructure for a geothermal system, which will heat and cool the site’s buildings.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks a year behind bars on Friday following his arrest by Russian authorities who accuse him of espionage but have offered no supporting evidence.
Officials approved proposals for the U.S. census and federal surveys to change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and to add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African." OMB announced the last major changes to its standards in 1997.
From ProPublica: For 25 years, gunmakers have repeatedly tried to end one city’s lawsuit over illegal gun sales. Meanwhile, illicit purchases of firearms continued at an unrelenting and hazardous pace.
