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After walking picket lines, shaping legislation, Abdirahman Muse takes Biden administration post
The longtime advocate for East African workers joined the U.S. Department of Labor last month as a senior adviser in the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. Abdi, 43, was appointed to the position by the Biden administration. 
’State of Paradise’ effortlessly blends the commonplace and the extraordinary
With exquisite prose, smart lines on every page, a building sense of growing strangeness tinged with dread, and surprises all the way to the end, this might be Laura van den Berg’s best novel so far.
‘Stars Wars’ in Ojibwe set to premiere in Canada
The all-Ojibwe version of “Star Wars: A New Hope” (Anangong Miigaading) is set to blast off Aug. 8 with a premiere in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It features a host of Ojibwe-speaking voice actors.
‘Let’s turn the page and let’s make it normal’: Marney Gellner on her milestone play-by-play for the Twins
Marney Gellner called the three-series game against the White Sox, making her the first woman to serve as the Twins’ play-by-play announcer in a regular season game.
Homelessness advocacy groups push back against Duluth proposal to ban camping on city land
A proposal earlier this week from Duluth officials to make sleeping on city land a misdemeanor crime is getting pushback from social service agencies that serve people experiencing homelessness in the city.
AT&T says hackers stole 2022 call and text data from ‘nearly all’ cell customers
AT&T believes the data, which was stolen in April, is no longer publicly available. Affected current and former customers will be notified by the company but can also check their status online.