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How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice

How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice

The Pohlad Family Foundation focuses its philanthropy on housing and racial justice. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the foundation’s president, Susan Bass Roberts, about where the money goes.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-US border expected to testify in human smuggling trial

Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-US border expected to testify in human smuggling trial

An Indian migrant who survived a deadly trek across the Canada-U.S. border in blizzard conditions is expected to testify Tuesday in the federal trial of two men accused of taking part in a sprawling human smuggling scheme that ultimately killed a family of four.
by The Associated Press

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Grapegate: Remembering the New York Times’ grape salad debacle 10 years later

Grapegate: Remembering the New York Times’ grape salad debacle 10 years later

The New York Times said it “scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states,” and Minnesota wound up with a grape monstrosity mixed with sour cream and topped with brown sugar.
by Anna Haecherl

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Opening statements delivered in federal human smuggling trial in northern Minnesota

Opening statements delivered in federal human smuggling trial in northern Minnesota

The family froze to death in a snowstorm in January 2022 after getting separated from a larger group trying to cross illegally from Canada into the U.S.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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’We were already struggling’: Several Somali mothers say they were duped into paying for poor tutoring services

’We were already struggling’: Several Somali mothers say they were duped into paying for poor tutoring services

Eighteen local Somali mothers say they were unknowingly signed up to pay for thousands of dollars in tutoring services through their state tax refunds.
by Joey Peters

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PWHL releases neutral-site schedule with games ranging from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest

PWHL releases neutral-site schedule with games ranging from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest

The PWHL is taking women’s pro hockey to places from Raleigh, North Carolina, to the Pacific Northwest in releasing its nine-date schedule of neutral site games.
by The Associated Press

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Teenage Buddhist lama celebrates last birthday in the U.S. before joining monastery in the Himalayas

Teenage Buddhist lama celebrates last birthday in the U.S. before joining monastery in the Himalayas

A U.S.-born Buddhist lama celebrated his 18th birthday with an elaborate enthronement ceremony. Hundreds attended the event at the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota. It’s the last big party for Jalue Dorje before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in suburban Minneapolis.
by The Associated Press

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Innovative Iron Range landfill project tackles climate change, ‘forever chemicals’

Innovative Iron Range landfill project tackles climate change, ‘forever chemicals’

A new project at a small landfill on Minnesota’s Iron Range is simultaneously helping to tackle two of society’s most vexing environmental problems — climate change and the treatment of so-called “forever chemicals.”
by Dan Kraker

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