News in :90 – May 4, 2022

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About 500 people gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday evening to protest the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance won Ohio’s contentious and hyper-competitive GOP Senate primary on Tuesday and Wall Street is off to a mixed start on Wednesday and bond yields are rising as traders look ahead to an announcement later in the day on interest rates from the Federal Reserve. Ben Hogan has today’s News in :90.

AP: Biden blasts ‘radical’ Roe draft, warns other rights at risk

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted a “radical” Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling t hat has stood for a half century. The court cautioned no final decision had been made, but Biden warned that other privacy rights including same-sex marriage and birth control are at risk if the justices follow through.

News in :90 – May 3, 2022

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A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, employers posted a recond 11.5 million job openings in March and the United States now has an unprecedented two job openings for every person who is unemployed, and a Minnesota appeals court has sided with a Wright County man who was fined for flying a huge Donald Trump flag on top of a crane. Reporter Abby Kielty has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – May 2, 2022

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Israel lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable comments” by its foreign minister about Nazism and Antisemitism, President Joe Biden saluted his Walter Mondale Sunday at the UMN, and 29th Annual Undergraduate Communication Research Conference was held Friday. Camarae Good has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – April 29, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit to the city by the U.N. chief, Beijing is grappling with the latest wave of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and Minneapolis police used covert or bogus social media accounts to monitor black individuals and groups despite having no clear public safety rationale for doing so. Production Editor Natalie Hoepner has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – April 28, 2022

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Putin’s demand to pay for gas in rubles would violate western sanctions imposed over the war, a Minneapolis Police Department investigation found patterns of race discrimination, and a TommieMedia columnist takes first place in contest. Ella Shuherk has today’s News in :90.