Donald Trump won Norman County by 22 percentage points in 2024, but Sen. Amy Klobuchar — running for re-election — also won there, albeit by less than a point. The rural county in the Red River Valley has gotten redder since it went for Klobuchar in 2012 by a 48-point margin, and it’s far from certain that Klobuchar can carry it running for governor this year.
After spending months being shuttled from facility to facility and eventually to the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, three Minnesotans arrested by ICE have been deported to Somalia, including Adam Mohamed Abdullah and Hassan Abtidoon.
Adam said the detainees had only 30 minutes’ notice to prepare for travel. They were shackled before being transported to the airplane. During the flight, which included layovers in Puerto Rico, Dakar, and Nairobi, the detainees remained chained.
Minnesota passed a law banning nudification technology, but now the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put a pause on the ban after an appeal by xAI (or xSI now?), Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. To be clear, the law bans the process of taking someone’s real picture and using AI to turn it into a pornographic or sexual image, which seems … like something you shouldn’t be able to do? Call me old-fashioned.
Recipients of a grant providing funds to get local produce out free to communities have been announced, including seven food programs in Northern Minnesota. The first round of grants total about $1.3 million, including a six-figure grant for Second Harvest Northland, based in Grand Rapids and Duluth.
Kenya’s Lilian Chebii was crowned the women’s champion of the Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday and set a course record doing it, finishing in 2 hours, 25 minutes and 26 seconds. That’s more than a minute better than Zinaida Semenova of Russia did in 2001 when she set the previous record, and Chebii’s nearest competitor this year finished more than six minutes behind her.
And finally in your Minnesota news roundup: The U of M reclaimed the Little Brown Jug (not to be confused with the “Little Green Bag”) from Michigan for the first time since 2014 with a — wait for it — 20-14 win, their first victory over Michigan at home since 1977. And at U.S. Bank Stadium, the Vikings defeated the woeful Dolphins 15-10 and no, that wasn’t two touchdowns, an extra point and a two-point conversion — that was five field goals. The Vikes are now 4-0 and it feels kinda like this:
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