The Minnesota Lynx were awarded the No. 2 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA draft in Sunday’s draft lottery.

“This selection will no doubt be an important part of our future as we continue our pursuit of a fifth WNBA Championship,” Lynx coach and president of basketball operations Cheryl Reeve said in a statement released by the team.

Minnesota got the second pick despite having the best record in the league last year. It had a 28.5% chance of securing the No. 2 pick in the lottery.

The Lynx possessed the Chicago Sky’s first-round pick after a previous trade.

The Dallas Wings won the draft lottery for the second consecutive year. The Wings, who drafted Minnesota native Paige Bueckers No. 1 last year, had a 42% chance to secure the top pick again.

Seattle, Washington and Chicago rounded out the lottery. This marked the fifth time in the history of the lottery that the results matched the order of chances held by the teams — the last came in 2018.

While there’s no clear No. 1 pick in the draft like Bueckers last season, there’s a host of draft-eligible players in college including UCLA’s Lauren Betts, UConn’s Azzi Fudd, LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson and TCU’s Olivia Miles. There’s also Spanish player Awa Fam.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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The Gophers football program lost a second high school recruit to the Texas Longhorns on Sunday.

Three-star running back Jett Walker from Georgetown, Texas, flipped his commitment from the U to an in-state SEC school. He followed Portage, Mich., tight end Charlie Jilek, who changed his mind from Minnesota to Texas last week.

“Staying Home!!” Walker wrote on X after a visit to the Austin campus this weekend.

The Gophers got Walker, who is listed at 6-foot-2 and 215 pound, as a flipped commitment from West Virginia on Nov. 3.

Minnesota now sits at 30 total commitments for its 2026 class. The early signing period starts Dec. 3.

The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, along with eight other states, filed a proposed $7 million settlement with one of the nation’s largest apartment managers on Wednesday.

The AG’s office announced a planned settlement with Greystar Management Services, LLC, which manages 31 properties in the Twin Cities metro area including Irvine Exchange and Waterford Bay Apartments in St. Paul and The Westlyn Apartments in West St. Paul.

The settlement comes from an ongoing multi-state civil antitrust lawsuit filed in January against RealPage, Inc. and several of the nation’s largest residential property managers, including Greystar. The lawsuit alleges RealPage, a Texas-based property management software company owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo, has artificially hampered competition in apartment pricing. Landlords and rental companies use RealPage to price apartments. The suit alleges RealPage monopolizes the market for commercial rental revenue management software.

The lawsuit also alleges Greystar and other landlords and rental companies worked together to set the parameters for RealPage’s software. They also discussed competitively sensitive topics such as pricing strategies and rents, the suit alleges.

In the proposed settlement, Greystar will pay $7 million to Minnesota and the other states involved in the litigation: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee. Minnesota is set to receive roughly $483,000 of the $7 million, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

In addition to payout, the settlement requires Greystar to limit its use of rent setting algorithms and refrain from sharing competitively sensitive information with competitors.

The settlement would also prevent Greystar from participating in RealPage events and compels Greystar to cooperate with Minnesota and other plaintiffs in their ongoing litigation against RealPage.

In a news release, Attorney General Keith Ellison said corporate greed like this is fueling inflation.

“I’m proud to join this bipartisan coalition and the (Department of Justice) in once again holding a company accountable that is violating antitrust law and illegally making it harder for people to afford their lives,” Ellison wrote.

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem awarded $10,000 bonus checks to several dozen Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport TSA agents on Sunday, and announced that her department will be spending $1 billion to improve TSA technology and operations.

Noem praised the Minnesota workers’ dedication during the government shutdown despite hardships that came from working without pay, noting that TSA employees across the country are being recognised with bonuses. She has not specified how many TSA officers qualify for the bonuses.

“I just want to express my deep, great gratitude for all of you,” she said. “I’m thankful for individuals who serve in TSA, who serve in our airports and security checkpoints with dignity, integrity and a happy attitude every day.”

The checks for Minnesota workers came a day after Noem visited Las Vegas, also handing out bonuses to TSA workers there.

Nationally, only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses, while nearly 20,000 other workers will be left out, the Federal Aviation Administration said last week.

President Donald Trump suggested the bonuses for those who have stayed on the job in a social media post, along with suggesting that air traffic controllers who missed work should have their pay docked. FAA officials haven’t publicly announced plans to penalise controllers.

$1B improvements planned

Noem spoke Sunday about her department’s $1 billion planned investment in TSA security checkpoints at airports across the United States, first announced in Las Vegas.

“We will be putting over $1 billion into new scanning equipment, new X-ray equipment, AIT equipment and resources for all of you so that you will be able to do your jobs well, accurately, efficiently and make it easier and will you more time to enjoy not just your positions at work while you’re serving but to do so with confidence, knowing that we are keeping our passengers safe,” Noem said.

This report includes information from the Associated Press.

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