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Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter is charged in the shooting death of Daunte Wright on April 11, 2021.

Wright’s killing set off days of protests and property destruction in the Twin Cities suburb, with demonstrators saying Wright’s killing was an example of racial bias by police against Black people.

Jury selection in the trial begins Tuesday.

Catch up on what you need to know before the trial begins.

 
Major General Jeffrey P. Van listens to a question about the Department of Defense collaboration with the St. Cloud Hospital Monday. The 23-member team of doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists will work alongside staff in areas where they are most needed.Paul Middlestaedt for MPR News
Nations around the world sought Monday to keep the new omicron variant at bay with travel bans and further restrictions, even as it remains unclear what it means for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan announced it would suspend entry of all foreign visitors, while new cases of the variant identified days ago by researchers in South Africa appeared as far apart as Hong Kong, Australia and Portugal. Portuguese authorities were investigating whether some of the infections there could be among the first reported cases of local transmission of the variant outside of southern Africa.

The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
 
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New variant cause for concern, not panic, Biden tells U.S. 
President Joe Biden is urging Americans to get vaccinated, including booster shots, as he seeks to quell concerns over the newly identified COVID-19 variant named omicron. But he said Monday he won't be seeking any severe business or other widespread lockdowns. Biden is scheduled to visit Minnesota Tuesday.

Boebert and Omar spoke after Boebert's Islamophobic comments. It didn't go well. The phone call between Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was meant to defuse tensions after the Republican made Islamophobic comments about the Democrat . Both congresswomen agree the call did not go well.

Minnesota’s newly established Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women met Monday for the first time with a mission to advise the Commissioner of Public Safety and Minnesota Legislature on ways to reduce violence against African American women and girls by December 2022.
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