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NEWS ROUNDUP
🏅 Two Minnesota honorees to receive Pay-It-Forward award in Washington, D.C. Pelican Rapids immigration activist Ivan Olson and the grassroots nonprofit Singing Resistance are being
given a national award by The Courage Project this week in Washington, D.C.
🏳️🌈 ‘Hidden community’: Telling LGBTQ+ stories in Fargo-Moorhead, before it's too late. An oral history project has interviewed more than 200 LGBTQ+ people about growing up and living in Fargo-Moorhead.
⚽ Despite immigration fears, Ethiopian soccer tournament brings thousands to Minnesota. The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America’s annual tournament brought players and families
from across the country to Minnesota for a week of soccer, cultural celebration and community gathering.
🥵 Minnesotans seek relief at pools, cooling centers as dangerous heat grips state. Dangerously hot conditions enveloped much of Minnesota on Monday, with authorities urging people to take precautions to stay safe amid the sweltering weather.
🛁 Minneapolis decriminalizes adult bathhouses, ending AIDS-crisis-era ban. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
signed the ordinances to repeal the ban, making it official moments before the Twin Cities Pride Parade on Sunday.
🆘 'People have lost everything': Minnesota Venezuelans seek help for earthquake victims. Minnesota Venezuelans are racing to collect and send supplies after devastating earthquakes struck their home country, killing nearly 1,500 people and leaving tens of thousands missing.
🚨 U.S. Marine from Minnesota reported missing during training exercise off California coast. Officials with I Marine Expeditionary Force on Monday
identified the missing Marine as 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco.
🚔 Cold Spring group home employee stabbed to death. Police arrested a 33-year-old man at the home. He's being held in the Stearns County Jail pending possible charges.
🏀 5 things about Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve's past, support system and goals. MPR News digital producer Anika Besst spoke with Reeve in Knoxville before her hall of fame induction about
what has led her to this honor.
MUST LISTEN
🎧 Heat exhaustion in children and adults: Here are the warning signs. With temperature extremes reaching a peak Monday, two physicians explain how to avoid emergencies and how to care for children and older adults.
🎧 Ask a Bookseller: ‘Enormous Wings’ by Laurie Frankel. The novel follows 77-year-old Pepper Mills, who moves into a retirement home at her grown children’s insistence. There, she falls in love with another resident and, to the shock of everyone, becomes pregnant.
🎧 Minnesota advocates worry about disability rights with move of federal special education office. Minnesota-based PACER Center, which advocates for educational opportunities for children with disabilities said the move will have a negative impact on families.
🎧 Cheap Week: How to save money on your next vacation. MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about how to find the best airfare and hotel deals, ideas for destinations closer to home and
finding more value when you travel.
🎧 Minnesota Lynx continue their hot streak on top. After celebrating coach Cheryl Reeve’s induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, Reeve got right back on the court, leading the team to win over the Dallas Wings.
