Two dead after crash into patio + Talking Sense: Friends across the aisle
☀️ Tuesday’s forecast calls for much of the same with highs in the mid to upper 70s. Southerly winds will bring 80s back to the forecast, briefly.
🌧️ Clouds increase Wednesday ahead of a cool front that will touch off showers Wednesday night. Get the latest weather news on Updraft. | |
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| Coming upon Morning Edition |
🏫 It's the first day of school for many Minnesota families. How will students and teachers contend with rising absenteeism, new no-cell phone policies and budget cuts affecting classrooms? MPR News education reporter Elizabeth Shockman comes to us live from Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary in Minneapolis.
🗣️ Labor Day has passed and now it's the final push for presidential campaigns. How are the Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz tickets mobilizing voters? And what's in store for the upcoming live debates? NPR's Domenico Montanaro breaks it down.
🗳️ Election officials across the country have spent years fighting false claims and conspiracy theories about stolen elections. Now they’re worried that new artificial intelligence technologies could make the problem even worse. Bente Birkeland reports for NPR. |
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| Coming up at 9 a.m. |
🏫 MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about chronic absenteeism — why it matters, who it impacts, and what we can do to boost school attendance. And we want to hear from you, too.
☎️ Have you had a hard time getting a child to school? Or, are you a teacher or administrator who sees chronic absenteeism affecting your students? What strategies have worked for you to get kids to show up for school more consistently? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 to join the conversation. |
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| | Two people killed, several injured as man drives car into outdoor restaurant patio |
Two people were killed and several people were injured when a man drove a vehicle into the patio at Park Tavern in St. Louis Park on Sunday night.
St. Louis Park Police say they were called to Park Tavern just after 8 p.m. They found surveillance footage, showing someone driving into the Park Tavern parking lot, attempting to park and then driving into the outdoor patio. | |
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| | Walz unharmed after some of the vehicles near the back of his motorcade crash in Milwaukee |
Several cars at the back of a motorcade carrying Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz crashed while heading from the airport to a campaign stop in Milwaukee on Monday, but Walz was unhurt.
The crash occurred after Walz and his wife, Gwen, were greeted at the airport by Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. The trio embraced, chatted and posed for a photo before the motorcade began heading to the event. | |
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| What else we're watching: |
🤝 How a liberal and a conservative became friends, despite being ’wrong about everything.’ Javier Morillo and Amy Koch couldn’t see politics more differently. And yet the two have grown from being political adversaries to close friends during one of the most polarized moments in American history.
💉 Measles outbreak affects at least 30 in Minnesota, closes Somali religious school. A measles outbreak that began in May in Minnesota has spread to 30 people, primarily infecting children in the Somali community. One dugsi, or Islamic religious school, has voluntarily closed in order to curtail the spread.
🎡 Minnesota State Fair sets another daily attendance record over the weekend. The fair set its fifth daily attendance record of the year Sunday, bringing 256,015 people through the gates. That number is about 11,000 more than the previous record for the last Sunday of the fair, which was set in 2019.
🏉 Minneapolis native Chuck Aoki, Team USA win wheelchair rugby silver medal. Minneapolis native Chuck Aoki and the Team USA wheelchair rugby team won a silver medal Monday after losing the gold medal match in Paris to Japan 48-41.
🥈 Minnesotan Skylar Dahl wins silver medal in rowing at Paris Paralympics. Sklyar Dahl, 21, of Minneapolis and her Team USA teammates in the mixed rowing competition finished just behind a team from Great Britain on Sunday.
⚾ Minnesota Twins beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4. The Twins earned a second straight victory for the first time since they won three in a row from Aug. 15-17. They remained 3 1/2 games behind AL Central-leading Cleveland and moved a game ahead of Kansas City for the AL’s second wild-card spot.
— Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News |
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