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Minnesota's Attorney General: "They knew they were so wrong, they backed down right away"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published July 15, 2020 at 2:23 PM CDT

Last week, t he University of Minnesota-Duluth was trying to figure out how to support its international students, after a federal government ruling, announced July 6, that international students had to transfer or leave the country entirely of their schools went to online classes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Late yesterday, the Minnesota Attorney General's office announced that, in the face of multiple lawsuits, including those brought by the University of Minnesota system and a coalition of Keith Ellison and 17 other attorneys general, the Trump administration rescinded the new rules.

Here's Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison:

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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