MPR News PM Update

July 24, 2024

Pleasant Wednesday! Look for dry conditions and partly cloudy skies with below normal temps in the upper 70s. Tonight lows will fall into the upper 40s in northeastern Minnesota to low 60s in western Minnesota. Get the latest on Updraft.
Rapidan Dam Store may serve customers again in temporary location this fall

Loyal customers of the Rapidan Dam Store may soon have its famous pies once again — just at a different location. Co-owner David Hruska said the earliest opening date could be “early fall” but he cautioned that’s if it “all goes smoothly” with permit applications, inspections and renovations.
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‘In certain circumstances’: GOP grapples with abortion rights, a key issue in Harris campaign

While Kamala Harris is not yet the official Democratic party’s presidential nominee, many of her supporters are hopeful she’ll bring her perspective as a woman — and a woman of color — to the top job in U.S. politics. But not everyone is on board with her stance on reproductive rights.
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🏛️ Under Democratic nomination schedule, VP speculation could end next week for Walz, others
Gov. Tim Walz has been floated as a potential running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. The Democratic National Convention rules committee, which Walz co-chairs, has set the nominating calendar.
✊🏼 Some Essentia Health nurse practitioners and other advanced providers vote to unionize
More than 400 nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives and clinical nurse specialists who work for Duluth-based Essentia Health voted Tuesday to form a union, the first time that so-called “advanced practice providers” have unionized at Essentia.
👩🏻‍🏫 Minnesota school settles with professor who was fired for showing image of the Prophet Muhammad
A former adjunct professor on Monday settled a federal religious discrimination lawsuit against a private Minnesota school after she was pushed out for showing a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
🥁 Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition
When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest.
🗳️ Trump is expected to turn his full focus on Harris at first rally since Biden’s exit from 2024 race
Donald Trump is holding his first public campaign rally since President Joe Biden dropped out of a 2024 matchup that both major political parties had spent months preparing for, leaving the Republican former president to direct his ire toward his likely new Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
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