Wild rookie goalie Jesper Wallstedt had seen plenty of the Edmonton Oilers on TV in the past few years, and admitted that they looked impressive. But prior to Tuesday, Wallstedt had never seen them in person.

Likewise, the highly-regarded Oilers had never seen the NHL’s hottest young goalie in person. But after 60 minutes of hockey in big-city Alberta, they know Wallstedt much better.

Just hours after being named the NHL’s top rookie for November, Wallstedt began December in the same manner he went about his business last month, stopping all 33 Edmonton shots as the Wild won 1-0 to open a four-game road trip.

It was Wallstedt’s league-leading fourth shutout, as he improved to 8-0-2 as a starter. Jonas Brodin’s first period goal proved to be the eventual game-winner.

It was Wallstedt’s fourth shutout in his past six games.

The visitors took some time to find their legs, offensively, and were being out-shot 5-1 midway through the first. Then the Wild got the game’s first power play, and while they did not score on the man advantage, it seemed to light a fire under the puck-movers. They headed down the tunnel after 20 minutes with a lead – on Brodin’s blast from the blue line after Nico Sturm won an offensive zone faceoff – and a 9-7 advantage in shots.

It marked the 17th time in 27 games this season that the Wild have scored first.

Edmonton grabbed the momentum in the middle frame, helped in part by a pair of Ryan Hartman trips to the penalty box. The Oilers held a decided 15-6 shots lead in the second, but Minnesota’s penalty killers, and Wallstedt, met the challenge and Minnesota took its one-goal lead into the second intermission.

Minnesota got a third period power play and pressured the Edmonton net, but ended up 0-for-2 on the night with an Oiler in the penalty box.

The night’s best drama came in the final 41 seconds, when Matt Boldy went to the penalty box with Edmonton’s net empty, giving the Oilers a 6-on-4 advantage to end the game. But Joel Eriksson Ek got the puck out of the defensive zone twice, and the Wild held on.

Stuart Skinner, much-maligned as a scapegoat for the Oilers’ below-expectations start to the season, had 23 saves for Edmonton, which will face the Wild again in a few weeks, visiting Grand Casino Arena on Dec. 20

The Wild are one-fourth of the way through their current eight-day western road trip, and will face the Flames in Calgary on Thursday evening. It’s another 8 p.m. CT start. Minnesota blanked Calgary 2-0 last month in St. Paul, in their first meeting of the season.

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As federal authorities under the direction of President Donald Trump prepare an enforcement operation targeted at Somali immigrants in Minnesota, local leaders and members of the Somali community Tuesday pushed back against what they see as an effort to sow “division and chaos.”

Last month the Trump administration suspended Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota — of which there are estimated to be around 400. Now immigration enforcement actions are expected in the Twin Cities for those with deportation orders.

Kassim Busuri, a former appointee to the St. Paul City Council who was born in Somalia, described the planned enforcement action as a political stunt, as only a few hundred of the 80,000 or so Somalis in Minnesota have TPS.

“We know Donald Trump is just playing with emotions. The numbers he’s thinking about, about illegal immigration and criminals — ask the police department. Most will say Somalis are model citizens and role models,” said Busuri, who is a volunteer executive director at the Minnesota Dawah Institute, a Muslim community organization.

‘Division and chaos’

“We should write letters to President Trump telling him why we are not garbage,” said Kassim Busuri to students after prayer in the mosque at the Da’wah Institute on Fairview Ave. in St. Paul on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Around 73% of Somali immigrants are naturalized U.S. citizens, per the U.S. Census Bureau. Jaylani Hussein with the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minnesota told the Associated Press that 95% of Somalis in the state were U.S. citizens.

At a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage,” saying they “contribute nothing,” and that he didn’t want them in the U.S.

“Their country is no good for a reason,” said Trump, who has blamed Somali immigrants and Gov. Tim Walz for fraud in Minnesota.

The planned sweeps and Trump’s suspension of TPS come after an unconfirmed report that fraud funds in Minnesota may have ended up funding a terrorist group in Somalia. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said the matter is now under investigation by his department.

“Everything is being put into the media to make us look bad,” Busuri said. “He’s pitting the community against each other. Trump is trying to start a ruckus in Minnesota, and cause division and chaos, as usual.”

Former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has said fraud in recent years could top $1 billion. Nearly 80 individuals have been charged in the Feeding Our Future case involving as much as $250 million in federal pandemic relief money administered by the state Department of Education. Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota also is prosecuting fraud cases in autism and housing stabilization service programs funded by Medicare and administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Local response

On Tuesday, state and local leaders, including Walz, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pushed back against what they have called the demonization of Somalis by Trump.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during a news conference addressing the media following reports that the Trump administration will be targeting Somali immigrants in the Twin Cities, at City Hall in Minneapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

“Targeting Somali people means that due process will be violated. Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that American citizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali,” Frey said. “For decades, the Somali community has added greatly to our city. The economic fabric, their hard work, their leadership. It has made Minneapolis a better place.”

The Council of American Islamic Relations has described the Trump administration’s recent targeting of Somalis as “political scapegoating.”

Amina Deble, came to the U.S. 25 years ago and, like many Minnesota-based members of Somalia’s diaspora, became a citizen a few years later. Deble owns Oasis Mediterranean restaurant in the West Bank/Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and raised six kids to adulthood in Minnesota.

“I just want to say thank you to the governor and the mayor, Jacob Frey, all the leaders who are standing up for the rights of Somalis,” she said. “If there’s fraud in this community, there’s specific people who did that, and for those specific people, we’re more than happy for them to face the law, just like other Americans.”

Deble noted that, like her, many Somali immigrants in Minnesota are naturalized U.S. citizens and have little to worry about.

“I don’t think they will have fear,” she said. “Those who aren’t, I think they’ll go through the law. The governor has already spoken about this, the mayor, others.”

ICE raids

The upcoming Twin Cities immigration sweep follows higher-profile immigration raids this year in the Twin Cities, which drew protests and resulted in clashes between demonstrators and police. Two November raids in St. Paul resulted in law enforcement using chemical spray and rubber bullets.

St. Paul has a separation ordinance barring the city from working with federal immigration enforcement, though last week, the St. Paul Police Department responded to a protest during an immigration raid on the city’s East Side.

Carter said his office was working with city police to work on “facilitating peaceful protests” in the future.

“The last thing that we need is federal agents coming to town attempting to turn us against each other … to turn us against ourselves,” the mayor said at a news conference Tuesday with Frey. “The last thing we need is federal agents coming in town to create chaos and challenge for us.”

Carter urged anyone with concerns in St. Paul to reach out to immigrant and refugee services, a list of which the City Attorney’s Office compiles on the city’s website.

Ramsey County sheriff: ‘We don’t do immigration enforcement’

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said his agency hasn’t been involved with any recent immigration raids or protests, but that his office is in the process of reviewing recent events to develop a policy on how deputies should approach potential future incidents.

Fletcher said his agency patrols six cities that contract with the county, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could eventually show up in one of them — like Arden Hills, Little Canada or Vadnais Heights.

“We don’t do immigration enforcement,” Fletcher said. “We have very little — really — very little contact with ICE, but we want to be prepared for when an incident does occur.”

Asked about the Trump administration’s plans for targeted enforcement action against Somalis, Fletcher said he believed only a “very small number” would be affected.

“To my knowledge, there are very few Somalis who aren’t citizens,” he said. “I’m guessing ICE is also targeting other communities.”

Somalis in Minnesota

The first Somali refugees started to arrive in Minnesota after the collapse of the regime of President Siad Barre in 1991 and an ensuing civil war that forced close to a million Somalis to leave the country. Many still live in refugee camps in Kenya.

Minnesota became a popular destination for Somali refugees for several reasons, including quality of education, safety and affordability compared to other regions of the U.S., according to Jane Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota.

Once a few families were in the state, more were attracted to the area. Many Somalis had first moved to the U.S. and later relocated to Minnesota. Church communities were particularly welcoming to Somali immigrants and played a significant role in helping them resettle.

“I think they felt supported by this community,” said Graupman, who has worked for the International Institute for 36 years. “They definitely found Minnesota to be a place where they thought that there was a future for their families and their community.”

Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, Catholic Charities, the Minnesota Council of Churches, were among the faith-based groups that helped. The International Institute also played a role.

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Today, there are around 80,000 Somalis living in Minnesota, more than in any other state. The vast majority live in the Twin Cities, and most are citizens.

“Across sectors, they’re very integrated into our community,” said Graupman, noting large Somali participation in the health care workforce among other fields. “To have a president say Somalis are contributing nothing to our country — it couldn’t be further from the truth.”

By SEAN MURPHY

The owners of an all-girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, where 25 campers and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic July 4 flooding, announced plans on Tuesday for new safety upgrades that will be in place when a portion of the camp opens next summer.

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Camp Mystic owners said in a letter to parents that they plan to exceed new camp safety laws that were passed by the Legislature and signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott following the devastating floods that killed at least 136 people and washed away homes and vehicles.

“We are preparing for next summer at Camp Mystic Cypress Lake and we know that safety is of the utmost concern to all of you, as it is for us,” the Eastland family wrote in the letter to parents of Camp Mystic campers. “We thank the Heaven’s 27 families and our state leaders for passing legislation to help make camps safer, and it is our goal not only to be in compliance with the new camp safety laws, but to exceed their requirements.”

The children and counselors who died have become known as “Heaven’s 27.” Camp Mystic’s owners include the wife and other family members of Dick Eastland, who also died in the flooding.

The enhanced safety measures at the camp include four flood warning river monitors designed to provide early detection of high-water events, two-way radios in every cabin enabled with national weather alerts and high-capacity generators to maintain power in critical areas of the camp, including its office and dining hall.

“We recognize that returning to Camp Mystic carries both hope and heartache,” the Eastland family said in the letter. “For many of your daughters, this return is not simple, but it is a courageous step in their healing journey.”

The Eastland family announced in September that it planned to build a memorial for the girls who died in the flooding and to reopen Camp Mystic Cypress Lake, a separate property that is not adjacent to the Guadalupe River and that sustained no damage in the July 4 floods. That plan drew fierce criticism from some of the victims’ families, who said they were never consulted about Camp Mystic’s plans.

“To promote reopening less than three months after the tragedy — while one camper remains missing — is unthinkable,” CiCi and Will Steward, whose 8-year-old daughter Cile Steward died in the floods and whose body still has not been recovered, wrote to Camp Mystic officials when their reopening plan was first announced.

The families of several of the girls who died in the floods have sued Camp Mystic and the Eastlands in state court, alleging camp operators failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached.

Camp Mystic plans to offer six separate 10-day sessions in 2026, beginning May 30 and ending Aug. 9. They also plan to offer tours of the camp in April for enrolled campers, counselors and their parents.

BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was banned for life Tuesday from an academic society in the latest fallout over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

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The American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated to economic research, said it had accepted Summers’ resignation and banned him for life from “attending, speaking at, or otherwise participating” in its events.

“The AEA condemns Mr. Summers’ conduct, as reflected in publicly reported communications, as fundamentally inconsistent with its standards of professional integrity and with the trust placed in mentors within the economics profession,” the group said in a statement.

A spokesperson for Summers declined to comment.

The Epstein emails include messages in which Summers appeared to be getting advice from Epstein about pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman who viewed him as an “economic mentor.”

“im a pretty good wing man , no?” Epstein wrote on Nov. 30, 2018.

The next day, Summers told Epstein he had texted the woman, telling her he “had something brief to say to her.”

“Am I thanking her or being sorry re my being married. I think the former,” he wrote.

Summers’ wife, Elisa New, also emailed Epstein multiple times, including a 2015 message in which she thanked him for arranging financial support for a poetry project she directs.

After the emails came out last month, Summers went on leave from teaching at Harvard University and from his position as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Other organizations that ended their affiliations with Summers include the Center for American Progress, the Center for Global Development and the Budget Lab at Yale University.

Epstein, who authorities say died by suicide in jail in 2019, was a convicted sex offender with vast connections to wealthy and powerful people, making him a fixture of outrage and conspiracy theories about wrongdoing among American elites.

Summers served as treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Harvard’s president for five years, from 2001 to 2006. When asked about the emails last week, Summers issued a statement saying he has “great regrets in my life” and that his association with Epstein was a “major error in judgement.”