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WEATHER
🌬️ A cold front is bringing relief after a few hot, steamy days. Highs Monday will be cooler, mostly in the 80s and 70s, but more importantly dew points will fall through the day to much more comfortable levels.
🌧️ Storms are possible in southeast Minnesota Monday afternoon and evening. There’s a slight risk (level 2 of 5) for storms that develop to be strong to severe. Wednesday and Thursday look soggy with more rain.
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The assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark has thrust the issue of how best to protect elected officials back into the spotlight. Lawmakers are grappling with how to protect themselves while not “fencing off the voice of people” in democracy.
Cleanup of damaged buildings, downed trees and mangled power lines continued in northern Minnesota on Sunday in the wake of severe storms that walloped the region early Saturday.
Artist Shanna Cramer uses paint brushes, oils and canvas to capture precious scenes on wedding days. In an era of instant video and photography, she finds young people embracing her old-soul approach.
NEWS ROUNDUP
🔍 Four dozen guns, 5 body bags and a second police vehicle found in search of Boelter property. Judges on Friday unsealed multiple search warrants from the investigation into Vance Boelter that include details that had not been public previously.
🪖 The politics of the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities: Here’s what to watch next. Trump's action was unexpected, given that until very recently the president seemed keen on negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program.
🌪️A tornado that swept through a rural town in North Dakota left at least 3 people dead. A complex storm system wreaked havoc in parts of North Dakota, northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, with tornadoes, large hail and strong wind gusts.
🖼️ Artist Salad Hilowle shares his Afro-Swedish experience at American Swedish Institute. A theme of Blackness in both Swedish history and art history runs throughout “Salad Hilowle: Inscriptions,” the artist’s first exhibition in the U.S.
🦌 Minnesota adds 8 counties to deer feeding ban. In an attempt to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease in wild deer, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is adding eight counties to its deer feeding and attractant ban.
🗣️ Mike Lee's posts about the Minnesota shootings incensed fellow senators. They refused to let it go. Sen. Mike Lee has in recent years become one of the Senate's most prolific social media posters, his presence seen in thousands of posts, often late at night, about politics.
MUST LISTEN
🎧 Expert dispels myth that cities are immune from tornados. Kenneth Blumenfeld, who has researched urban tornados, said the probability of tornadoes striking skyscraper-filled cities like the Twin Cities, or smaller downtowns, are just as high as elsewhere.
🎧 In ‘Sleep,’ Honor Jones examines the paradox of parenthood. Can childhood trauma, once suffered, be kept from the next generation? That’s one of the many psychological questions at the a heart of Honor Jones’ debut novel, “Sleep,” one of the must-read books of the summer.
