Alpha News traveled to multiple shelter sites and talked with migrants and hotel staff on the ground.

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The complaint says that the defendant and his accomplices are known associates of a south Minneapolis gang known as the "Crazi Boyz."

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Across both chambers, 37 Republicans have signed their names to the bill.

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A new bill would require school personnel to "identify and address students by their preferred names and pronouns."

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The fire left the encampment leveled and uninhabitable. The fire also damaged at least one nearby home that was left with melted siding.

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No formal ethics complaint has yet been filed against Sen. Hoffman.

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Nine of the 14 total incidents reportedly involved a firearm. 

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Sheriff Knudson said he was speaking out because he knows "so many law enforcement officers in Minnesota feel this way, but they can’t say it."

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The last walk of Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old member of the US Air Force who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington in protest against US involvement in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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