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Parts of I-94, 35W in Minneapolis to close for the weekend
Twin Cities drivers can expect another weekend of detours as a portion of two freeways in Minneapolis shut down.
From 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, southbound Interstate 35W in northeast Minneapolis will be closed between Hwy. 280 and I-94. Minnesota Department of Transportation crews will make repairs to bridges and concrete and fix guard rails while the road is closed. While they are at it, workers will also will try to remove graffiti from signs and noise walls.
In north Minneapolis, westbound I-94 will be closed between I-394 and I-694 from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. The segment that actually runs north parallel to the Mississippi River will be closed as the MnDOT continues work on the Plymouth Avenue bridge project.
The closures are weather dependent, said spokesman Jesse Johnson.
But the weather forecast looks favorable to get the work in. After a cloudy and rainy Friday morning, the remainder of the weekend looks to be dry. The National Weather Service calls for clear skies with highs in the low 70s Friday afternoon through Sunday and lows in the 50s.
On the rails, buses will fill in for Green Line trains all day Saturday between the Capitol/Rice Street Station and Union Depot in St. Paul. Metro Transit will be cleaning and sealing the Cedar Avenue bridge.
Rail service will resume at 3 a.m. Sunday, the agency said.
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Prosecutors file sealed brief detailing allegations against Trump in election interference case
In their new indictment, Smith’s team ditched certain allegations related to Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department but left the bulk of the case intact, arguing that the remaining acts — including Trump’s hectoring of his vice president, Mike Pence, to refuse to certify the counting of electoral votes — do not deserve immunity protections.
Chutkan is now responsible for deciding which acts in the indictment, including allegations that Trump participated in a scheme to enlist fake electors in battleground states he lost, are official acts and therefore immune from prosecution and which are private acts.
She has acknowledged that her decisions are likely to be subject to additional appeals to the Supreme Court.
“I honestly think he used to understand how tariffs work,” Cuban said. “Back in the 90s and early 2000s, he was a little bit coherent when he talked about trade policy and he actually made a little bit of sense. But I don’t know what happened to him.”
Speaking in Pittsburgh on Thursday, Trump’s running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, pushed back against the Harris campaign’s claims that tariffs would hurt the economy. Vance described the tariffs as a way of discouraging imports and boosting American manufacturing.
“If you are a business, and you rely on foreign slave labor at $3 a day, the only way to rebuild American manufacturing is to say, if you want to bring that product made by slave labor back into the United States of America, you’re going to pay a big fat tariff before you get it back into our country,” Vance said.
Back in Wisconsin, Amara Marshell, freshman at UW-La Crosse, said she showed up to support Harris because she is concerned about what a second Trump presidency could mean for reproductive rights. Like her friend, sophomore Avery Black, Marshell is also excited about the possibility of electing the nation’s first female president.
“Women deserve to have power over their own bodies,” Marshell said. “We shouldn’t have to not be able to get an abortion just because of a president.”
Mary Holman, an 80-year-old retiree from Fort Atkinson, Wis., said she hasn’t been to a rally since former President Barack Obama’s first campaign in 2008. But Holman said she decided to get off the sidelines this cycle because she views the election as a fight to preserve democracy.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will auction off state lands in popular northern counties next month.
The public land — in Aitkin, Cook, Itasca, and St. Louis counties — will go up for sale during the Department of Natural Resource’s annual online public land sale from Nov. 7 to 21.
“These rural and lakeshore properties may appeal to adjacent landowners or offer recreational opportunities such as space for a small cabin or camping,” the DNR said in a statement.
Properties will be available for bidding Nov. 7 through Nov. 21.
This all can trim for print: The properties include:
40 acres in Aitkin County, with a minimum bid of $85,000
44 acres in Cook County, minimum bid $138,000
1.9 acres in Itasca County, minimum bid $114,000
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