Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
☀️ We'll have one more warm day across southern Minnesota ahead of a cool front coming in later Tuesday. Highs will be well into the 70s across southern Minnesota.
🌡️ It’ll be noticeably chillier Wednesday, but those readings will actually be right near normal with highs in the 40s north and 50s south.
Students were occupying the building to demand the University of Minnesota divest from Israel and weapons manufacturers, among other asks. The occupation comes after extensive protests for divestment during the spring semester.
This election season, MPR News invited its audience to learn more about people on the other side of the political spectrum through an initiative called “Walk a Mile in My News.” Two of our participants, a Democrat and a Republican, swapped their go-to news sources and then let us record their conversations. They had far more in common than they expected.
Some district leaders say they’ve been inundated with huge data requests that appear politically motivated and can be massively expensive and difficult to decipher. At least one school board has asked lawmakers to help slow a “runaway train.”
🏺 10 days, 10,000 objects and one very large kiln. The largest wood-burning kiln in North America just completed its 10-day firing at St. John’s University in Collegeville. Over the course of the firing, the kiln was fed about 16 cords, or about eight tons of wood.
🕯️ Minneapolis Police Department investigating after a 3-year-old was fatally shot. Police responded to a 911 call at 12:45 p.m. saying a child had been shot. When officers arrived at the scene they rendered aid with emergency personnel. The child was transported to a hospital where they died.
🎧 Why some young men feel aimless and isolated. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, young adult men are more likely to be neither employed, in school or in workforce training. MPR News host Chris Farrell spoke with a masculinity researcher about why some young men don’t have a sense of purpose and say they feel isolated and stuck.