Alex Pretti.Photograph: Dimitri Drekonja The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans. It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another…
Promising new research could hold the key to combating a widespread invasive plant found throughout North America. The University of Minnesota posted an article about a study that examined fungi samples collected from dying buckthorn on 19 sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Of the 120 fungal species collected, 46 were identified as potential sources for…
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are escalating their targeting of US-China joint institutes and degree programmes, identifying dozens of such partnerships as “high-risk” for the first time in a report released on Friday. In a 39-page report, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and…
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are escalating their targeting of US-China joint institutes and degree programmes, identifying dozens of such partnerships as “high-risk” for the first time in a report released on Friday. In a 39-page report, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and…