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The U.S. mens basketball team won its fifth straight gold medal at the Paris Olympics, defeating France 98 to 87.The game pitted Timberwolves stars Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert against each other, as Gobert played for France.Photo by Mark J. Terrill/AP#olympics #ant #anthonyedwards #timberwolv...

Rick Sutton, the former head coach at Mankato West High School, hired a new teacher onto his football staff in the late 1990s. They won a state championship together in 1999, long before Tim Walz was a local political figure, let alone a national one.Michael Rand spoke with Sutton on the Daily De...

Cmon, watch us pass the baton. #olympics #parisolympics #relayrace #relay

In a new version of the original 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope premiering this week in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Obi-Wan Kenobi doesnt say, May the Force be with you.Instead, the Jedi Master wishes Luke Skywalker off with Gi-ga-miinigoz Mamaandaawiziwin, the phrases Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin) translation, ...

Sen. JD Vance claims that Gov. Tim Walz bailed as his unit headed to Iraq, but Walz retired before his unit was called on to deploy. Read more at the link in our bio. Reporting by Rochelle Olson. Photo by Shari L. Gross @sharilgross #minnesota #walz #timwalz #jdvance #vance #kamalaharris

By the time she was a 13-year-old in 1973, Tanya Smith had procured a plane ticket, flown to Michael Jacksons childhood home and begged to meet him. By the time she was 20, she accrued millions by breaking into banks computer systems. By 30, she was spending what would be more than 13 years in pr...

As Minnesota governor, Tim Walz passed ambitious climate policy that was sharply contested by Republicans. He also clashed with environmental advocates on the left flank of his party for approving an oil pipeline and defending a copper mine supported by trade unions and northern Minnesota lawmake...

We used to be afraid of hurdles, but then we got over it. @itsamanada #olympics #paris2024 #hurdles #trackandfield

Why are Republicans calling Gov. Tim Walz Tampon Tim?A bill Walz signed last year requires schools to stock bathrooms with free menstrual products, including tampons and pads, for all students in grades 4 to 12.Within hours of Kamala Harris announcing Walz as her running mate, Republicans began a...

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld the year-old law restoring the right to vote to felons upon their release from incarceration.In an opinion written by Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, the court rejected a challenge to the 2023 law by the Minnesota Voters Alliance. The Anok...

After seeing some of his gay students bullied, Tim Walz agreed to be the faculty adviser for a new gay-straight alliance at the high school where he taught social studies.It was 1999. At the time, Walz was an enlisted soldier in the Minnesota National Guard, and openly gay people were banned from...

Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held their first joint rally in the Midwest on Wednesday, telling more than 12,000 people who gathered in the battleground state of Wisconsin that America cannot withstand another Donald Trump presidency.Walz was in friendly territory in his neighboring s...