The Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti has resigned, the U.S. is one step closer to offering booster shots Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, and the Minnesota Timberwolves fired president Gersson Rosas on Wednesday. Emily Rudie has today’s News in :90.
Jury selection for the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death resumed Friday and St. Thomas graduate Mohamed Malim created Epimonía, a business designed to help support refugees in the United States. Designer Rabia Malik has today’s News in :90.
Impending national elections. Climate change debates. The worldwide refugee crisis. Opinions editor Maddie Peters argues these topics, repeatedly present in news headlines, are detrimental to our well-being.
The UN Refugee Agency reports that as of June 2019, there are 25.9 million refugees worldwide. Columnist Kayla Mayer argues the topic of refugee resettlement and immigration isn’t a political issue; it’s a humanitarian issue.
Four St. Thomas students are named Hult Prize finalists, Minnesota sees a slow-down in refugee arrivals, and Minnesota house Republicans propose an $825 million public works spending bill. Photographer Davis Narey has today’s News in :90.
TommieMedia director Sophie Carson shines light on three fairly unknown international news stories that St. Thomas political science students said the campus must know.
Chief Video Editor Deborah Honore profiles a young Syrian refugee who has resettled to Minnesota with her family, comparing the public’s reception of refugees today to the 1990s, when Honore herself resettled from Ethiopia.
Minnesota has a long history of immigration, so Designer Sam Wisneski found why certain groups have made new lives in the state and the challenges they face.
