Drownings have increased in Minnesota. Here's how to swim safely.
Keep an eye on the kids, wear life jackets and swim with a buddy.
Property owners could pay for $1B in upgrades after HCMC fight stalled tax change
Proposed change to Hennepin County tax would also provide $9 million a year for Target Field and $4 million for youth activities and libraries.
Feds decline Minnesota's proposal for funding a med-tech hub, at least for now
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Future government funding remains possible, but group moving forward with private funding.
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South Korea abandons plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors to resolve medical impasse
South Korea's government announced Monday it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors as part of its efforts to convince them to return to work and resolve the country's monthslong medical impasse.
Nation
New parents in Baltimore could get $1,000 if voters approve 'baby bonus' initiative
A group of Baltimore teachers is asking voters to approve a program that would give $1,000 to new parents in the hopes of reducing childhood poverty starting from birth.
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A bench and a grandmother's ear: Zimbabwe's novel mental health therapy spreads overseas
After her son, the family's shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. She contemplated suicide.
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June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won't
Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus.
Business
Shelter-in-place order briefly issued at North Dakota derailment site, officials say
Officials at the remote site of a derailed train carrying hazardous materials that sparked a fire in North Dakota briefly issued a shelter-in-place notice Sunday for area residents during cleanup.
Nation
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tests positive for COVID. Vice President Harris has tested negative
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms, his office announced Sunday, but his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, has tested negative and remains asymptomatic.
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4 killed in shooting during party at a Kentucky home; suspect died after a vehicle chase, police say
Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said.
Business
Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished, offering renewable energy and plant-based protein
An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy.
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Human remains found wrapped in sleeping bag and left out for trash pickup in NYC
Decomposing human remains have been found wrapped in a sleeping bag and left out on the sidewalk for trash collection in Manhattan, New York City police said Saturday.
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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers aim to join the list
Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban said they have more than enough signatures to try to put their proposal before voters in November's election.
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Kansas' top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws
Kansas' highest court strongly reaffirmed Friday that the state constitution protects abortion access, striking down a ban on a common second-trimester procedure and laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers.
World
Pope to preside over interfaith meeting in Indonesian mosque during longest, most challenging trip
Pope Francis will preside over an interfaith meeting in a mosque in the world's largest predominantly Muslim country during a four-nation Asian visit in September that will be the longest and most complicated foreign trip of his pontificate.
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COVID on the rise everywhere else — is Minnesota next?
Viral variants driving infections in other states are present in Minnesota, creating potential for another post-holiday bump in illnesses.
Nation
The questions about Biden's age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan's in 1984
The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old. President Ronald Reagan answered it with a pledge to resign if he became impaired, and later with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.
World
Indian mother delivers baby on boat as her river island is inundated by floodwaters
A blue tarp covered a mother and her newborn daughter from the incessant rain on their boat journey. Jahanara Khatoon, 25, had just given birth on the boat on their way to a healthcare center, surrounded by the raging floodwaters of the Brahmaputra River.
World
India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves
Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year — its worst heat wave in over a decade — left hundreds dead or ill. But the official number of deaths listed in government reports barely scratches the surface of the true toll and that's affecting future preparations for similar swelters, according to public health experts.
Business
As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields
Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face ''substantial risk of injury or death.'' The state immediately appealed the decision.
Nation
Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska turned in more than enough signatures Wednesday to put abortion-related ballot questions before voters in November's election if a sufficient number of them are deemed valid.
Nation
Federal judge sentences 4 anti-abortion activists for a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade
Four anti-abortion activists who were convicted in January on felony conspiracy charges for their roles in a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade were sentenced this week to terms ranging from 6 months in prison to three years of supervised release. The sentences were below those asked by prosecutors, and U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger said she took into account the good works of the defendants in their communities.
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Judge temporarily blocks Biden administration's restoration of transgender health protections
A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people.
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