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May 24, 2012
Thu, 5/24, 10:45pm (16 minutes ago)
Nickolaus Dent has to take care of his mother who has been battling HIV for as long as he can remember. He sometimes has to help her get dressed and bathe ever since his father died two years ago, according to CNN.com.
Nickolaus, along with an estimated 10,000 more youth, care…
Thu, 5/24, 3:52pm (7 hours ago)
A woman in her late twenties was shot Wednesday night at a residence on the 2500 block of Stinson Parkway and died after being transported to the Hennepin County Medical Center, according to a police report.
KSTP reported that police said an unknown number of suspects entered the home, one shot…
Thu, 5/24, 2:57pm (8 hours ago)
A 1937 locomotive from Topeka, Kan. will soon be transformed into the world’s first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive. The plans were announced Thursday by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail, a collaboration of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and Sustainable Rail International, a nonprofit.
Their goal is to “develop the…
Thu, 5/24, 12:21pm (11 hours ago)
Protests over higher university tuition led to the arrest of 518 people in Montreal Wednesday night.
Student protests have only grown since the provincial government passed emergency legislation last week to end Canada’s most sustained demonstrations ever, The Associated Press said.
Just before midnight police surrounded a large group of protesters to…
Wed, 5/23, 2:37pm (1 day ago)
A Pakistani court sentenced Wednesday the doctor accused of helping the United States catch Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail, a Pakistani official said.
Shakeel Afridi was sentenced under treason laws and fined $3,500, the New York Times said.
He was found guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan,…
Wed, 5/23, 10:44am (2 days ago)
Egyptians went to the polls Wednesday to vote for the country’s first freely elected leader in decades.
Voters waited in long lines outside polling stations across the country to cast ballots for Egypt’s fifth president since a military coup ousted the king in 1952 and its first to be chosen democratically,…
Tue, 5/22, 5:07pm (2 days ago)
History was made Tuesday after the first private rocket was launched into outer space.
Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launced its Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday morning, marking the first time a private company had ever launched a vessel to the space station. The rocket carried into orbit a capsule named…
Tue, 5/22, 1:13pm (2 days ago)
Here is your Daily Digest for Tuesday, May 22:
Interim Best Buy CEO strikes different tone
Best Buy’s interim CEO made a blunt assessment of his companies place in the market Tuesday, telling Wall Street analysts “we aren’t even close to good enough.”
Chief Executive Mike Mikan acknowledged the electronic retailer’s failure to…
Mon, 5/21, 6:27pm (3 days ago)
The trial for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will still take place in June, a judge ruled Monday.
The one-sentence order by Judge John Cleland did not explain his reasons, but it means the child sex-abuse case will likely begin with jury selection on June 5, the Wall…
Mon, 5/21, 2:03pm (3 days ago)
Here is your Daily Digest for Monday, May 21:
Obama promises Afghanistan “won’t stand alone”
President Barack Obama vowed that Afghanistan “won’t stand alone” as NATO forces shift security responsibility to Afghan forces in the coming months.
World leaders met in Chicago Monday to chart the next step toward transitioning security responsibility, USA…
Mon, 5/21, 10:21am (4 days ago)
Demonstrators forced many Chicago businesses to keep their employees home Monday. Protests at the NATO summit in the city's downtown area led to increased security and revised train and bus routes designed to dodge the summit zone, the Chicago Tribune said.
Many businesses told their employees to stay home during the…
Thu, 5/17, 12:10pm (1 week ago)
Here is your Daily Digest for Thursday, May 17:
Minority babies on top for first time in U.S. history
For the first time ever, most of the nation’s babies are coming from minority groups, according to new census figures.
Population estimates show that 50.4 percent of children less than a year old were…
Wed, 5/16, 2:16pm (1 week ago)
Here is your Daily Digest for Wednesday, May 16:
Election day set in Greece
Greece will hold new elections on June 17 amid a political and economic crisis that could have effects far beyond the country's borders, CNN said Wednesday.
News of the election date came as Greeks pulled hundreds of millions of…
Thu, 5/3, 3:46pm (3 weeks ago)
According to the Star Tribune, Amy Senser was found guilty on two of three counts. She is accused of striking Anousone Phanthavong on a freeway ramp with her vehicle last summer in Minneapolis.
She was convicted today of criminal vehicular homicide, failing to stop and call for help immediately and leaving…
Thu, 5/3, 2:48pm (3 weeks ago)
University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute found a way to effectively treat muscular dystrophy in mice by using human stem cells. This is the first time that human stem cells have been shown to be effective in the treatment of muscular dystrophy.
The publication, published today, shows how the dividing population…
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