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  • Summer X Games are leaving Southern California, headed to Sacramento

    Summer X Games are leaving Southern California, headed to Sacramento

    The X Games are saying “later dude” to Southern California after years of gnarly action and heading north to Sacramento for the next three years. The extreme sports competition will celebrate its 30th anniversary at the California State Fairgrounds from Aug. 22 to 24 next year, X Games organizers announced Thursday. The games, which include…

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  • FBI agents search home of L.A. deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat

    FBI agents search home of L.A. deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat

    FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor as part of an investigation into a bomb threat made against City Hall, officials said Wednesday. The agents searched the home of Brian Williams, who is deputy mayor for public safety, on Tuesday while looking into a bomb threat Williams “allegedly made against City…

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  • General Mills cereals

    General Mills offering short-term price cuts on products

    Brooks Johnson at the Star Tribune is reporting Golden Valley-based General Mills is forgoing profit growth to boost promotions and other short-term price cuts over the next six months in an effort to revive customer loyalty for the long haul. Nicole Ki at MPR News talks with Elizer Darris, who, thanks to a new Minnesota…

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  • Attorney for Diddy accusers makes wild new allegations against Jay-Z and his team

    Attorney for Diddy accusers makes wild new allegations against Jay-Z and his team

    The legal fight between Jay-Z and Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, who is representing clients who allege they were sexually assaulted by Sean “Diddy”’ Combs, took an unusual turn Wednesday when the attorney filed a lawsuit claiming Jay-Z’s company and its agents conspired to offer money to his former clients to sue him. The lawsuit, filed…

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  • The offices of Louisiana Democrats, where early Blue Dog Democrat organizing meetings were held, often had paintings by the Cajun artist George Rodrigue on the wall.

    ‘Blue Dog’ DFL senators say Legislature needs more wag, less bark

    Within hours of the final unofficial 2024 election results being known, one Minnesota state senator read the handwriting on the wall and posted it on social media. “Now that the voters have spoken, it is clear to me that Northern Minnesotans want representatives who focus on delivering for our communities and stay out of the…

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  • EPA OKs California EV mandate and tailpipe emission rule

    EPA OKs California EV mandate and tailpipe emission rule

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday signed off on two major California clean air rules designed to reduce pollution from cars and trucks, including a ban on selling new gasoline-powered cars statewide by 2035. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the ability to adopt more stringent vehicle emission requirements than the federal government.…

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  • Candidate files lawsuit; alleges DFL winner does not live in district

    Wells Fargo Center sells at steep discount for $85 million

    Bring Me the News reports the Wells Fargo Center has sold to a trio of investors for $85 million, a 70% decline in value from when it was sold in 2019 for $313.6 million. “Minnetonka-based Onward Investors on Thursday announced it had partnered with Cross Ocean Partners and Neuberger Berman on the acquisition of the…

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  • Marina, a Russian asylum-seeker, was separated from her baby Aleksandra by U.S. officials after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

    Why the Biden administration is separating families at the border

    ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In handwritten cursive, a Russian immigrant named Marina wrote out the story of the day U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents took away her 1-year-old baby while she was being held in…

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  • Hunter Biden

    The unfettered presidential pardon has no place in our legal system

    Cityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly.  The presidential pardon is suddenly the center of political discourse: President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter; President-elect Trump’s vow to pardon the January 6 defendants; President Biden’s threat to…

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  • “Mickey Smith: Morphologies” runs through Friday, Dec. 20 at Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

    Macalester exhibition is a monument to the archives in an AI era

    I got chills as I walked into Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College last week to see “Mickey Smith: Morphologies.” It felt to me as if I were entering a tomb, where knowledge itself was being laid to rest. The exhibition was originally going to end Dec. 15, but it’s been extended through Friday, Dec.…

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