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Arctic air, dangerous bomb cyclone blizzard to sweep U.S. this week

"Life-threatening" conditions are likely for tens of millions.

Axios

A severe arctic storm could threaten holiday travel across the U.S.

Biting wind and heavy snow are expected across 17 states this week, sending temperatures plummeting as low as minus 30 F in some areas. Blizzard conditions could hit the Upper Midwest on Thursday.

WEKU

Midterm results are in: Custom-fit drivers win in a landslide

Despite living on the East Coast, I've had an undeniable thirst this year for 10-day weather forecasts in the Midwest. No, meteorology isn't normally my thing. But, Golfweek has been in the midst of a season-long research study tracking the effects ...

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Commentary: Corporate America thrives where abortion is protected

Gina Raimondo doesn't “know why any woman would want to live in a state that criminalizes full access to health care.” The assertion by the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce is especially relevant after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June that upheld…

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900,' by Jon K. Lauck

NONFICTION: Jon K. Lauck argues that the history of the Midwest reveals an advanced democratic society and refutes stereotypes about the region's repressive culture.

Tribune News Service

Midwest soil eroding faster than ever

How do researchers know? Stardust.

Salon

From blizzards to tornadoes, US braces for wild weather week

Millions of people in the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest are bracing for blizzard-like conditions from a massive storm blowing across the country

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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.

Fortune

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.

WEKU

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.

ABC News

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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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…

The Independent UK

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

Al Jazeera

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.

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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