If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may [see it online](. [Star Tribune]( Talkers TOP STORIES - CDC expected to backpedal on some masking guidelines: Reversing a decision made just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend that even people vaccinated for COVID-19 [resume wearing masks indoors in certain areas of the country]( where the virus is surging.
- As COVID-19 cases rise, anger spreads among the vaccinated: As coronavirus cases resurge across the country, [many inoculated Americans are losing patience with vaccine holdouts]( who, they say, are neglecting a civic duty or clinging to conspiracy theories and misinformation even as new patients arrive in emergency rooms and the nation renews mask advisories. Rochester-based Mayo Clinic says [it will require employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus]( by mid-September, becoming one of the latest health systems to do so as delta variant cases rise around the country.
- Jan. 6 hearing opens as police detail violence, injuries during Capitol riot: Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell told congressional investigators Tuesday he could feel himself losing oxygen as he was crushed by rioters â supporters of former President Donald Trump â as he was defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Gonell and other Capitol and Washington police officers [gave emotional, sometimes-angry accounts of the attack](to the new House committee investigating the day's violent events.
- Driver identified in fatal Orono crash along Lake Minnetonka: A 51-year-old Orono man was driving near his Lake Minnetonka home when he crashed into a grove of trees, [killing two young men who were passengers in his car](. Authorities Monday identified the driver as James David Blue, who was taken to the hospital with severe injuries. The victims of Saturday's crash have been identified as Mack Motzko, 20, son of Gophers men's hockey coach Bob Motzko, and Sam Schuneman, 24, of Maple Grove.
- St. Cloud man sentenced to 40 years for nightclub stabbing: Christopher L. Johnson is [one of two defendants sentenced in the stabbing death]( of 29-year-old Unity McGill in December 2019. Johnson's brother, Lawrence M. Johnson of St. Cloud, wassentenced in March to more than 34 years in prison.
- Hidden Falls Creek closer to reality at former Ford site in St. Paul: No longer hidden from public view, [the remade creek is the centerpiece of the new Highland Bridge development](. The water feature will not only be the site of paddle-boarders in the summer and ice skaters in the winter, but it will clean millions of gallons of stormwater before returning it to the Mississippi River below.
- Georgia man gets life sentence in 4 of 8 Asian spa killings: A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses [pleaded guilty Tuesday to four of the murders]( and was handed four sentences of life without parole. Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county.
- Former U.S. senator Mike Enzi dies after bike accident: Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, [has died after he broke his neck in a bicycle accident.]( He was 77. WATCH THIS Domino robot faces off against human "Domino Queen": Robotics engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober spent five years developing this domino-placing robot and challenged "Domino Queen" Lily Hevesh to a domino-setting race before attempting to [fill a gymnasium with an elaborate 100,000-piece domino mural]( in just 24 hours. Talk to us! Send feedback on this newsletter, questions, story tips, ideas or anything else to [talkers@startribune.com](. TRENDING - Writer/director conjures fantastical movie worlds, all from Woodbury: It will be shot in Los Angeles and its sets are under construction in London but much of the work on the upcoming sci-fi film "Persephone" [is happening in Woodbury.](
- Pop-up picnic providers set a pretty scene in Twin Cities parks: Forget the musty blankets and cold sandwiches â [these pros make picnics posh.](
- Globe-trotting German conductor finds a summer home in Brainerd: Christian Reifis a young conductor with a career in full blossom. Based in a major classical music capital, Munich â not far from his hometown of Rosenheim â he spent three years as resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and is in the midst of a post-COVID transition back to the globe-trotting life of an international conductor. So what's the next stop for this star on the rise? Brainerd, Minn., where [Reif was recently named music director of theLakes Area Music Festival](, which begins Friday and runs through Aug. 22. SPORTS ROUNDUP - With Biles out, Suni Lee steps up but Russians take gymnastics gold: As the U.S. women's gymnastics team final approached on Tuesday night, something felt off for Simone Biles. So rather than push through the doubts that crept into her head as she's done so many times before, she decided enough was enough and [withdrew from the team gymnastics final.]( Without the gymnast considered the greatest of all time, the U.S. women were unable to repeat as Olympic team champions, [finishing second to the resurgent Russians in a stunning upset](.Lakeville's Regan Smith [won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke]( Tuesday in Tokyo.
- After all the Aaron Rodgers drama, Packers got what they wanted: After months of drama befitting of his Packers quarterback predecessor, Aaron Rodgersarrived in Green Bay late Monday, hours before he was due to report at training camp, and by all accounts[will play for the Packers in 2021.](
- After talks break down, Buxton insists he wants to stay with Twins: If Byron Buxton leaves the Twins, [it won't be because he wants to get out of Minnesota](. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? You can [sign up for Talkers here](. WORTH A CLICK Scientists extract 15,000-year-old viruses from Tibetan glacier: "Researchers say the ancient pathogens are unlikely to cause humans any harm, but 28 out of the 33 viruses found are new to science," [writes Alex Fox for Smithsonian magazine.]( FROM THE ARCHIVES July 27. 2018: Minnesota Lynx forward Maya Moore took a trick shot from the scorers table during a practice ahead of the WNBA All Star Game at Target Center in Minneapolis. (Photo: Anthony Soufflé/Star Tribune) Connect with Star Tribune [facebook]([twitter]([pinterest]([instagram]( [Manage email preferences]( • [Subscribe to Star Tribune]( • [Privacy Policy]( • [Unsubscribe]( This email was sent by: StarTribune, 650 3rd Ave S, Suite #1300, Minneapolis, MN, 55488
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