MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with Rev. Mariah Tollgaard about her experience testifying with Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
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MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with Rev. Mariah Tollgaard about her experience testifying with Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
The Pentagon on Tuesday said that Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake was among those killed during an “unmanned aircraft system attack” in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. It remains under investigation. Amor had served in the military for more than 20 years.
🚨🚨Major League Baseball games will be played this month we almost made it!!!!
A newly proposed MN bill suggests a series of changes to the state criminal code, teacher licensing requirements, MDE investigations, mandatory reporter training and school field trip requirements, all aimed at preventing grooming and child abuse in schools. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Bob Kerrey, the former U.S. senator from Nebraska, has resigned from the board of a clean energy start-up in the state after documents released by the Department of Justice indicated that Kerrey and Jeffrey Epstein had met and corresponded over email more than a decade ago.
Live at 8, MPR News host Catharine Richert talks with State Rep. Sandra Feist and State Sen. Zach Duckworth about the ongoing legislative session. And we want your questions.
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Defender Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third women’s hockey gold medal with a 2-1 victory over Canada at the Milan Cortina Games to close another thrilling chapter of one of sports most heated rivalries.
It took me the entire “Our Mother the Mountain” album to get home tonight because of the roads.
Colin Hortman’s eight-month journey through grief brought cherished memories flooding back since his parents Melissa and Mark Hortman were killed in their home in June. He says he hopes their deaths remain a clarion call for toned-down political rhetoric.
The FBI will not give Minnesota investigators access to evidence gathered from the scene of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
I spoke with BCA Superintendent Drew Evans about it on @mprnews.org.
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Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
A new initiative is the latest sign of growing respect for native species of fish that were once thought to be undesirable “junk.”
For more than a century, rough fish were lumped in with invasive species like common carp. Now, concern about a potential population decline is sparking attention.
Dozens of people detained as part of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota have been transported to an unlikely holding facility: a Nebraska county jail.
Lawyers have argued that shipping detainees across state lines makes it harder to provide adequate legal representation.
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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
In nearly 20 years at MPR, Huttner has done roughly 15,000 weather broadcasts, as well as launch the Updraft blog and Climate Cast podcast.
His last day on air will be April 30.
"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said fatal shootings in Minneapolis highlight deep failures in federal training, planning and oversight as immigration agents are sent far from the border. MPR News host Clay Masters (@claymasters.bsky.social) spoke with Napolitano.
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"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Liam’s mother, Erika Ramos, spoke to MPR News about what she witnessed that day. She also discussed her phone conversations with her son and her husband and the pain she has experienced. @mprnews.org
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Sarah was one of the first journalists who had to deal with me when I started at Nebraska Public Media 20 years ago. We also overlapped at Iowa Public Radio a couple years. We went thru a lot at those shops.
While I have a hard time imagining public radio without her, I’m eager to see what’s next.
Just before the incident, Omar called for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign. “ICE cannot be reformed,” she said.
Alex Pretti's younger sister issued a statement Monday memorializing her big brother’s kindness and criticizing “disgusting lies” told in the wake of his death.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis. Family members say he was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
Rep. Pete Stauber, who sponsored the resolution to overturn the ban, argued that the Biden administration’s ban was a “dangerous, purely political decision that disregarded the science and disregarded the facts.”
Opponents argued the pollution risk isn't worth the possible economic benefits.
