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Minnesota students to build solar suitcases to light up classrooms in Kenya's refugee camp
The program will teach STEM education, environmental action and global issues.
World
Israel's move to bar Omar, Tlaib from visit draws wide criticism
On Friday, Tlaib said she won't visit her relatives in the West Bank after Israel reversed itself earlier in the day by issuing a permit on humanitarian grounds.
Variety
Scientists distill vodka using grains, water from Chernobyl
They set out to show that safe agriculture is feasible in some of the abandoned areas.
UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future
Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new United Nations scientific report says. That creates a vicious cycle which is already making food more expensive, scarcer and less nutritious.
Nation
Puerto Ricans get their 3rd governor in 6 days
Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez became Puerto Rico's new governor Wednesday, just the second woman to hold the office, after weeks of political turmoil and hours after the island's Supreme Court declared Pedro Pierluisi's swearing-in a week ago unconstitutional.
Agriculture
In another blow to farmers, Chinese to halt U.S. farm imports
In Minnesota, soybean exports have sharply declined. Pork and other goods may soon halt.
Walloped by Europe's heat wave, Greenland sees massive ice melt
The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island's ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic -- 11 billion tons on Wednesday alone.
How Trump's latest China tariffs could squeeze US consumers
The latest tariffs President Donald Trump plans to impose on Chinese goods would cost U.S. households an average of $200 a year, some economists estimate, and would start to bite consumers and retailers just as the holiday shopping season begins.
Trump says he'll put 10% tariffs on remaining China imports
President Donald Trump intensified pressure on China to reach a trade deal by saying he will impose 10% tariffs Sept. 1 on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn't already taxed. The move immediately sent stock prices sinking.
Duluth
PolyMet critics say firm relied on engineer connected to mine dam failure in Brazil
It's cited in the argument in the Minnesota Court of Appeals, which is deciding a challenge to mining permits granted to PolyMet by Minnesota regulators.
World
U.S. teens face very different legal system in Italy
One of two American teenagers jailed in Rome for allegedly slaying a police officer said he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to a judge's ruling obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.
Minneapolis
Feds seek to extradite Mpls. day care operator accused of murder
Sylwia Pawlak-Reynolds has refused to return to the U.S. from Poland to face questioning, citing a fear of being imprisoned and separated from her infant son, who remains under her care in Poland.
Air-board inventor makes it more than halfway across Channel
Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine then crashed in the sea Thursday.
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