Judge Peter Cahill, who oversaw the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, said Monday that he will make the names of 15 jurors and alternates who sat in the courtroom public on Nov. 1.

Cahill initially ordered the names of the jurors remain secret for at least 180 days after the verdict, but a media coalition asked for the jurors’ identities to be released, saying the media and public have a right to the information.

At this point, Cahill said, there is no strong reason to believe releasing jurors’ names would threaten their safety or interfere with the fair and impartial administration of justice.

As President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit, a new survey shows that about 6 out of 10 Americans believe that the pace of global warming is speeding up.

According to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, 55% of Americans want Congress to pass a bill to ensure that more of the nation’s electricity comes from clean energy.

Only 16% of Americans oppose such a measure for electricity from cleaner energy.

The U.N. summit starts Sunday.

A judge has ordered two Twin Cities rental companies and their officers to pay $736,000 to nearly two dozen women over allegations that one of the defendants pressured the tenants for sex to avoid eviction.

The consent decree filed in federal court directs Fruen & Pfeiffer and M. Fruen Properties and individual defendants to pay $32,000 to each of the 23 women and pay a $14,000 civil penalty.

The primary defendant, the 70-year-old Reese Pfeiffer, is banned from managing property in the future.

Elizabeth Neil can be reached at emneil@stthomas.edu.