U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood visited Minneapolis last week to join U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar, who represents the area, to rally supporters for Vice President Kamala Harris in her White House bid. The two were joined by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in a Sunday “Women of Color for Harris Brunch.”
“When we vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, we have...
Shadrack Kimining, 28, of Kenya won the 2024 Twin Cities Marathon men’s race Sunday with a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 17 seconds beating Eritrean Tesfu Tewelde by just four seconds. In the women’s race, Molly Bookmyer, 33, of Ohio, took first place with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes, and 52 seconds.
The 26.2-mile race started...
Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain cancer, the league announced. He was 58.
His family revealed two years ago that he was undergoing treatment in Atlanta for a brain tumor. The NBA said he died surrounded...
Republican Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, faced off in the only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election on Tuesday night, which began with a measured tone but eventually escalated into a combative exchange. The debate, which CBS News hosted at their Broadcast Center in New York and Norah O’Donnell and Margaret...
A Kenyan-born doctor has become the 158th president of Minnesota Medical Association (MMA), the first person of color to lead the organization since its founding in 1853.
Dr. Edwin Bogonko is a physician with Allina Health in Shakopee and has been a very active member of the MMA since 2010, when he joined the nonprofit professional group that represents physicians,...
African professionals gathered on Saturday for the half-day African Immigrant professional Development Conference (AIPDC), hosted annually by the Center for Immigrant Career Advancement. Now in its seventh year, the keynote address was presented by Tom Gitaa, the founder and publisher of Mshale.
This year’s theme was ‘Harnessing the Power of Community.”
In the address Gitaa gave at the AIPDC, the publisher told...
Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, mailed straight to their homes.
The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday, allowing any household to order up to four at-home nasal-swab kits through the COVIDtests.gov website, The tests will begin shipping, via the United States Postal Service, as soon as next week.
The website has been reopened on the...
Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with official documents, according to government data obtained by Reuters.
The spike in rejections of foreign travellers comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, trailing in polls ahead of an election expected next year, tries...
Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed by a three-member panel of National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. The panel consisted of Tonya Mosley, Co-host of WHYY’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, Gerren Keith Gaynor, White House Correspondent and Managing Editor of Politics at TheGrio and Eugene Daniels, Playbook Co-author and...
Early voting in Minnesota, both in-person and via mail, starts one week from today on September 20. This is a presidential election year but Minnesotans will also be electing a U.S. Senator and all U.S. House of Representative seats. The Minnesota House of Representatives is also on the ballot as are many local elections at the county and city...
About 6 in 10 debate-watchers said Harris outperformed Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate, while about 4 in 10 said Trump did a better job, according to a flash poll conducted by CNN, with Harris exceeding debate-watchers’ expectations. Before the debate, the same voters were evenly split on whether Trump or Harris would win.
The vast majority of debate watchers —...