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Commentary: UCLA rushes for the Big Ten and the big payday. But what about the players?

Big Ten football means something in the national psyche. It’s the Midwest. It’s Frigidaire-snowy Saturdays after a crisp fall. It’s teams defined by tough running games and rounded shoulders. One thing it is not and has never been is a coastal operation of golden beaches and year-round sunshine.

Los Angeles Times

‘Monstrous’ storm to slam Midwest with everything from tornadoes to blizzards

A major storm will slam the Midwest with everything from tornadoes to blizzards next week, meteorologists said Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Home prices are down in every one of the top 58 metros according to the latest AEI data. But cities in this region have taken the biggest hit so far

The latest housing price numbers highlight a continuation of the most striking trend: the sharp pullbacks in Western cities. Of the fifteen metros showing the largest drop, the metro farthest east is Austin.

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Largest LGBTQ+ health center in US midwest to lay off 15% of staff

Staff cuts at Chicago community health center come at a time of high-profile attacks on queer and trans healthcare across the US

The Guardian - US

Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party tries to improve odds of being early presidential primary state

MINNEAPOLIS — Leading Democratic-Labor-Farmer elected officials are trying to sweeten Minnesota's pitch as it competes with other states for an early Midwestern spot in the 2024 presidential primary.

Tribune News Service

Illinois bid to become early Democratic primary state likely to be rejected this week

President Joe Biden has yet to signal what states he wants to have early primaries. Michigan, Minnesota are front-runners for the Midwest early primary spot in 2024.

Chicago Sun-Times

How South Korea uses technology to bring together local residents and World Heritage sites

The Baekje kingdom was one of the earliest states on the Korean Peninsula (18 BEC to 660 CE), and UNESCO’s Baekje Historic Areas offer a unique testimony of its history, culture and legacy. Located in South Korea’s Midwest, the kingdom was at the crossroads of exchanges of art and Buddhist…

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White supremacist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who met with Ye and Trump, raised in suburban Chicago

“Fuentes is among the most prominent and unapologetic antisemites around,” David Goldenberg, the Anti-Defamation League director of the Midwest regional office, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Her father's fudge recipe brings back childhood memories of the Midwest

A young Jan Kincaid Clifford wasn't even tall enough to reach the stove. That didn't stop her from stirring the pot. And stirring. And stirring. Her dad's recipe requires patience, but it pays off.

WEKU

Bones and All transforms Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell into teenage cannibal runaways on a road trip

Chalamet and rising star Taylor Russell play cannibal teen lovers on a journey through the Midwest in the new film from director Luca Guadagnino.

ABC News

Special kringle, cheesecake minis from two Midwest makers just might fill the bill for holiday desserts

Consider two special holiday options from two of the oldest dessert purveyors in the region.

Chicago Sun-Times

Movie review: Young lovers have thirst for blood, and belonging, in 'Bones and All'

The most romantic movie of the year is a teenage dirtbag road trip featuring a couple of crazy cannibal kids colliding unexpectedly before embarking on a meander across the Midwest. It’s “Badlands” with ‘80s punks who feast on flesh, and one of the most moving and authentically beautiful love stories…

Tribune News Service

US gives protections to rare Midwest bird as prairie suffers

The U.S. government says it will protect two populations of a rare prairie bird that’s found in parts of the Midwest, including one of the country’s most prolific oil and gas fields

The Independent UK

World Cup 1994: Brazil dash Italy’s hopes to win fourth title

The event was spread across nine USA cities from the east coast to the west, and from the south to the Midwest.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Why is a weedkiller showing up in Midwesterners’ urine?

St. LOUIS — A research group says levels of the controversial and drift-prone weedkiller dicamba have more than tripled in the urine samples of people in the Midwest — even in urban areas.

Tribune News Service

Blue wins in governor’s races lift the hopes of US climate advocates

Climate-literate blue governors — a mix of incumbents and upstarts — will be taking office around the Midwest and Northeast just as more federal money than ever is available for tackling climate change, pointing to a possible new wave of state-level action.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New businesses nudge Missouri town toward becoming the Napa Valley of the Midwest

AUGUSTA, Mo. — Years ago, the town of Augusta had three bakeries. But for a long time until recently, it had none.

Mic

Delia Ramirez is already making history

Newly-elected Congresswoman Delia Ramirez talks self-preservation, prioritizing immigration reform, and “going beyond hashtags.”

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Long-awaited Abrolhos Islands management plan 'disappointing' for Midwest tourism advocates

The state government has revealed how it will manage tourism and conservation at the Abrolhos Islands, but not everyone is happy.

Salon

Governors could derail climate plans

Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have clean energy plans. Fossil-fuel-friendly candidates could undermine them

France 24

US midterms: Meeting voters along the Mississippi River

FRANCE 24 takes you on a journey through the American heartland, from the Midwest to the South, for a closer look at the issues that could decide the crucial November 8 midterm elections. Our reporter Fanny Allard met with Americans in cities along the Mississippi River to find out how…

The Guardian - US

Frontline abortion workers in the US west are fatigued. Midterm results may make things worse

While Colorado remains a precarious sanctuary in the midwest, the west coast states have rallied to protect abortion rights

The Independent UK

In Minnesota, GOP eyes grab of rare Midwest Dem stronghold

Control of state government hangs in the balance in Minnesota, one of the few Midwest states where Democrats have had the upper hand in recent years

Axios

How Latinos have changed the American landscape

The Latino population increased most rapidly in the American South and the Midwest.

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Why one of The Avett Brothers recorded a solo tribute album in a bunch of random hotel rooms

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Unless you have a fairly strong familiarity with contemporary folk artists of the American Midwest, you might look at the title of Concord native Seth Avett’s solo album “Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown,” due to be released on Nov. 4 and wonder, “Uhh, who is Greg Brown?”

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