News in :90 – April 12, 2023

Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the chaotic moments of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville. Attorneys defending Fox withheld critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch. Democrats announced Tuesday that they will hold their party’s 2024 national convention in Chicago, choosing the biggest liberal city in the Midwest.

News in :90 – April 11, 2023

A volcano erupted early Tuesday on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday. A student at a private southeastern Minnesota college faces multiple counts.

News in :90 – April 6, 2023

Long-time Mideast rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia took another significant step toward reconciliation Thursday, formally restoring diplomatic ties after a seven-year rift, affirming the need for regional stability and agreeing to pursue economic cooperation. Protesters disrupted vehicle traffic at Paris’ main airport and police fired clouds of tear gas in other French cities as people marched in a new round of strikes and nationwide demonstrations Thursday seeking to get President Emmanuel Macron to scrap pension reforms that have ignited a monthslong firestorm of public anger. Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House is preparing to vote Thursday on whether to expel three Democratic members for their demonstration calling for gun control following the Nashville school shooting, an extraordinary move that the chamber has used only a handful of times since the Civil War.

News in :90 – April 5, 2023

For the first time in history, a former U.S. president has appeared in court as a criminal defendant. A U.S. House speaker meeting with the president of Taiwan for a rare visit on American soil. A Democratic-backed Milwaukee judge won the high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday.

News in :90 – April 4, 2023

Former President Donald Trump will surrender and be arraigned in front of a New York City court on Tuesday. Finland became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Forecasters are warning of more severe weather Tuesday and Wednesday in parts of the South.

News in :90 – April 3, 2023

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday Finland will become the 31st member of the world’s biggest military alliance on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump faces the most urgent legal challenge of his life this week in New York. Diana Zaharia has today’s news in :90.

News in :90 – March 30, 2023

A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes, authorities said. Nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in Kentucky, a military spokesperson said. Russia’s security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations.

News in :90 – March 29, 2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription.The Senate is poised to vote Wednesday to repeal the 2002 measure that greenlighted the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Russia will no longer give the U.S. advance notice about its missile tests, a senior Moscow diplomat said Wednesday.

News in :90 – March 28, 2023

Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville.Ukraine’s president visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine on Tuesday. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is slated to lead opening statements in his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs.

News in :90 – March 27, 2023

Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside parliament and workers launched a nationwide strike on Monday, as a surging mass protest movement threatened to paralyze the economy. Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction for more than an hour across a long swath of Mississippi, even as furious new storms Sunday struck across the Deep South. Managing editor Sam Larson has today’s news in :90.

News in :90 – March 17, 2023

Protests against French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force a bill raising the retirement age. The North Dakota supreme court ruled that a state abortion ban will remain blocked. Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400-thousand gallons of radioactive water from XCEL energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant.

News in :90 – March 16, 2023

A freight train carrying corn syrup – not hazardous materials – derailed in western Arizona, near the state’s border with California and Nevada, BNSF Railway said. The European Central Bank carried through with a large interest rate increase Thursday, brushing aside predictions it might dial back as U.S. bank collapses and troubles at Credit Suisse feed fears about the impact of higher rates on the global banking system. Minnesota courts will allow greater audiovisual coverage of criminal proceedings starting next year under an order filed Wednesday by the Minnesota Supreme Court, but the rules will nonetheless remain more restrictive than those in many other states.