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Leila Navidi

Minneapolis

Staff Photojournalist at The Minnesota Star Tribune

@StarTribune photojournalist. Maryland native. Instagram: @leilanavidi

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  • 1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Leila Navidi |Elliot Hughes

    House DFL leader Rep. Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, speaks during a news conference held by the House DFL at the Minnesota State Capitol on Jan. 6, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS) Leila Navidi TNS MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesotans woke up Saturday to developing news of a political assassination in the Twin Cities suburbs. State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed. State Sen.

  • 3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Leila Navidi

    MINNEAPOLIS - Canadian wildfire smoke has become so intense that even young, healthy Minnesotans are experiencing symptoms similar to allergies. "This morning I woke up and I was just like, oh, I have COVID," said Cameron Dailey-Ruddy, 34, of Minneapolis. He took two COVID tests Tuesday morning - both negative - and everyone at his staff meeting reported sore throats and headaches.

  • 3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Leila Navidi

    MINNEAPOLIS - Air quality alerts remain in effect for yet another day for the entire state of Minnesota with concentrations of wildfire smoke so thick the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued a rare hazardous warning. The MPCA uses a color-coded scale when issuing alerts, with purple and maroon signaling when the air is the worst.

  • 1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Leila Navidi

    President Donald Trump thinks kids can get by without 30 dolls this Christmas. He has a point. Heck, even three dolls would have been a luxury in the 1930s, when Marlys Burgess was growing up in Bertha, Minnesota. "I was on a farm. I had no friends," she said. "I just had my Shirley Temple doll. It moved with me. Now, kids have 15 dolls and they throw them in a toy box."Burgess, now 87, is making up for lost time. For more than 35 years, she's owned and operated Mrs.

  • 1 month ago | sanluisobispo.com | Leila Navidi

    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks during a March 2025 news conference at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS) Leila Navidi TNS More than 6,000 Minnesotans newly eligible to vote cast their ballots last year after lawmakers expanded voting rights to residents on felony parole and probation.

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Leila Navidi
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9 Nov 22

RT @StarTribune: Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a p…

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9 Nov 22

RT @KormannAlex: Check out the coverage of today’s #ElectionDay in Minnesota from the ⁦@StarTribune⁩ photo staff https://t.co/mFryuVJFBS

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