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  • Minnesotans showed up on Give to the Max Day — now it’s the state’s turn to bolster support for nonprofits

    Minnesotans showed up on Give to the Max Day — now it’s the state’s turn to bolster support for nonprofits

    Based on a report from the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, more Minnesota nonprofits are facing financial crisis than any year since 2020. Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders noted concern about the viability of their budgets for the next 12 months. On Give to the Max Day, Minnesotans showed up to support our sector — in…

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  • A new generation finds promise in nuclear energy

    A new generation finds promise in nuclear energy

    When Heather Hoff took a job at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, she was skeptical of nuclear energy — so much so that she resolved to report anything questionable to the anti-nuclear group Mothers for Peace. Instead, after working at the plant for over a decade and asking every question she could think of about…

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  • California's most neglected special needs students are the gifted ones

    California’s most neglected special needs students are the gifted ones

    Schools have generally been working hard to meet the special educational needs of an array of students — those with learning disabilities, those learning English, those with behavioral issues and those whose households struggle with poverty. But they have widely neglected one major group of students with special needs: the academically gifted. Many school districts…

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  • Black plastic utensils may have toxic compounds. What you should do

    Black plastic utensils may have toxic compounds. What you should do

    Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the plastic to migrate into the food you’re about to…

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  • Season's first atmospheric river to bring rain, snow across California

    Season’s first atmospheric river to bring rain, snow across California

    The strongest atmospheric river to hit California in months is expected to dump rain and snow across the northern half of the state this week — also bringing high winds and possible flooding — before eventually making its way south, forecasters say. “This is going to be the first major storm of the season,” said…

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  • Woman sends cryptic message, misses flight then disappears, family says

    Woman sends cryptic message, misses flight then disappears, family says

    A Hawaii woman disappeared after sending a cryptic message to her family and then missing a connecting flight to New York at Los Angeles International Airport, according to her family and police. Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was last seen at LAX on Nov. 8 and last contacted her family by phone on Nov. 9, according to…

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  • E. coli scare: Carrots from Bakersfield farm sicken dozens across U.S.

    E. coli scare: Carrots from Bakersfield farm sicken dozens across U.S.

    One Los Angeles County senior has died amid a national recall on carrots found to be contaminated with E. coli. Two additional local cases are under investigation, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Across the U.S., at least 39 people were sickened, and 18 people were hospitalized in 15 states as…

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  • SoCal kids execute sting operation to catch suspected predator

    SoCal kids execute sting operation to catch suspected predator

    Move over, Chris Hansen — 20 Southern California juveniles just executed a sting operation that netted a suspected child predator. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responded to a tip Friday that an adult was meeting a minor for sex at Nicolas Road Park in Temecula, according to a release. When they got there at around 4:25…

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  • Prosecutors allege witness tampering plot in Sean 'Diddy' Combs case

    Prosecutors allege witness tampering plot in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case

    Evidence found in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ jail cell suggests he has influenced a witness in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case and is trying to blackmail others, prosecutors allege. They say that he has sought to avoid federal detection by using three-way calls and other inmates’ phone access codes. In a motion filed…

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  • Trump confirms deportation strategy will include military

    Trump confirms deportation strategy will include military

    WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to execute mass deportations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally will involve the military and a national emergency declaration, he confirmed Monday. In a Nov. 8 post on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, Tom Fitton, who leads the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, wrote: “GOOD NEWS: Reports are the…

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