Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On March 31, 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the filming of a movie in Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was hit by a bullet fragment that had become lodged inside a prop gun.

Also on this date:

In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except those willing to convert to Christianity.

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In 1854, Japan and the United States signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened two Japanese ports to American vessels and marked the beginning of Japan’s transition away from isolationism.

In 1918, the United States first observed daylight saving time, moving clocks ahead one hour.

In 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane near Bazaar, Kansas.

In 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”

In 1995, Tejano music star Selena, 23, died after being shot by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of Selena’s fan club, who was found to have been embezzling money from the singer.

In 2004, four U.S. civilian contractors were killed by Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds then dragged the burned, mutilated bodies and hanged two of them from a bridge.

In 2005, Terri Schiavo (SHY’-voh), 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die court battle that began in 1998.

In 2022, scientists announced they had finished fully sequencing the human genome, the full genetic blueprint for human life.

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor William Daniels is 98.
Actor Richard Chamberlain is 91.
Actor Shirley Jones is 91.
Musician-producer Herb Alpert is 90.
Actor Christopher Walken is 82.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is 81.
Former Vice President Al Gore is 77.
Actor Rhea Perlman is 77.
Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 70.
Hockey Hall of Famer Pavel Bure is 54.
Actor Ewan McGregor is 54.
Actor Brian Tyree Henry is 43.
Filmmaker Chloé Zhao is 43.
Musician-producer Jack Antonoff is 41.

The Pistons showed up to Target Center on Sunday ready to literally fight. But, for the first quarter, the Timberwolves looked more ready to go to bed. Until Donte DiVincenzo decided to step into the ring.

Shortly after Isaiah Stewart got a technical foul for a push early in the second frame, Detroit rookie Ron Holland delivered a little shove to DiVincenzo after a foul was called against Holland.

DiVincenzo would have no more of that. He grabbed Holland and wrestled him into the first row of seats located under the basket. And it was on.

A bevy of players got into the outskirts of the skirmish, which didn’t feature any thrown punches, but ample pushing in a skirmish that leaked into the spectators. In the end, five players were ejected —DiVincenzo and Naz Reid for Minnesota and Holland, Stewart and Marcus Sasser for the Pistons. Detroit head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and Minnesota assistant Pablo Prigioni, who were jawing at one another in the wake of the incident, were also sent to the locker room.

The lingering question for Minnesota is whether anyone, specifically, DiVincenzo, will face a suspension from the NBA. The Wolves play in Denver on Tuesday.

But what mattered most for Minnesota on Sunday was that the Wolves woke up in time to rally from a 16-point deficit to down Detroit 123-104.

With the win, Minnesota leapfrogged the Clippers to move into the No. 7 spot in the Western Conference and remained on Golden State’s heels for the six seed.

Minnesota trailed at the time of the skirmish, and went down by 14 with fewer than five minutes to play in the half. But after the ejections a Detroit team that entered the night sans Tobias Harris and Cade Cunningham was then down five guys, and the Wolves won the war of attrition.

Anthony Edwards scored 20 points in the third quarter. Rudy Gobert dominated the affair with 19 points and a whopping 25 rebounds.

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Union workers rallied in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday, days after an international graduate student was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

United Electrical locals from across the country had already gathered for a conference this weekend when they heard the news. United Electrical represents several graduate student unions including those of Stanford, MIT and the University of Minnesota.

Around 100 members marched to Marquette Plaza, adjacent to a federal immigration field office.

“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. As a union we remain committed to protecting our international graduate workers,” said Abaki Beck, president of GLU-UE Local 1105, the union of graduate employees at the University of Minnesota.

Carl Rosen leads the union that represents many graduate school student workers across the country. He said international students play a critical role at their institutions and in the national economy, and he’s worried they’ll be discouraged from applying to U.S. schools.

“What they’re going to do is cut all these folks off from coming and frankly who would want to come here?” said Rosen, president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. “What does that say about America that people aren’t going to want to come here? It’s just shameful.”

No information has come out publicly about the University of Minnesota student or why they were taken into custody on Thursday.

University leaders on Friday shared only that the student was at an off-campus residence when ICE removed them. A college dean reported the individual studied at the Carlson School of Management.

“As we would in any situation, we are following the lead of the student and respecting their request for privacy,” said University spokesperson Jake Ricker. He added the University of Minnesota cannot share more because of state and federal student privacy laws.

Ricker said the U of M is providing support to the student, without specifying the type of support.

UMN Graduate Labor Union president Abaki Beck speaks as members of the UMN Graduate Labor Union and other unions as they gather to protest the ICE detainment of a U of M graduate student on the steps of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday, March 29. As a union we remain committed to protecting our international graduate workers,” said Beck. (Nicole Neri for MPR News)

“There’s an increased number of international workers who have been detained or who are facing deportation orders and are choosing to self deport so that they don’t have to be detained in ICE facilities,” said Beck.

Attendees at the Saturday protest chanted the names of other students recently detained by ICE who include Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Ozturk is a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University who was detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents earlier this week. Her lawyer said the arrest came without explanation.

At a separate rally at Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park commemorating Land Day, U of M senior Noora Ahmed said the backlash against international students who have expressed solidarity with Palestine is creating fear among student organizers.

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“It’s really worrisome because we want everyone to show up for human rights, to show up and speak their mind,” she said. “At the same time, they fear for their safety, of getting deported, of getting suspended, of getting their degree revoked.”

Ahmed is involved with Students for Justice in Palestine and the divest coalition at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She wants to see U of M leadership better defend students’ right to speech.

“We’re trying to protect ourselves as much as we can, trying to have ‘Know Your Rights’ campaigns and teach-ins, yet there’s only so much that we could do on our end,” she said.

Around 500 Minnesota state employees protested Saturday in St. Paul, calling on DFL Gov. Tim Walz to reverse course on a policy to require more in-office work. The governor says having more employees spend at least half their time at their workplaces will improve communication and collaboration.

State employee unions oppose the policy, saying it will require many people to reorder their lives after five years of pandemic-imposed remote work habits.

The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 5 together represent around 40,000 employees. MAPE organized the protest outside the governor’s official residence on Summit Avenue.

Lee and Joe Sullivan are tax auditors at the Department of Revenue and live in Little Canada. Lee Sullivan says her department has a different office configuration now.

“We rented half of it out and we also changed our parking ramp and so we never thought they would be going back to the office,” she said. “And so to suddenly come of the blue and give us no warning at all and demand that we go back to the office, that’s going to disrupt a lot of things.”

The Sullivans say working out child care before the policy goes into effect June 1 will be challenging. It’s a problem for Katie Fountain of Woodbury as well.

An employee at the Department of Corrections, Fountain said the governor’s policy will force her to pay unexpected child care costs over the summer, when she could be home working and lightly supervising her school-aged kids.

“What that would cost me is actually more than I would make. So at that point it’s not working anymore, and I know a lot of other people are in the same exact situation.”

Walz estimated around 60 percent of state workers have been in the office full time and others are on hybrid home and office schedules.

Minnesota state employees protest new work rules outside of the governor’s residence in St. Paul on Saturday, March 29. (Anne Guttridge / MPR News)

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Minnesota Management and Budget guidance says that workers who live less than 75 miles from their state offices would have to work a full day from their principal office location, or another qualifying office, for the time to be counted toward their 50 percent target.

Some workers can apply for reasonable accommodations to continue working remotely.

Dana Ferguson, Peter Cox and Clay Masters contributed reporting for this story.