A bicyclist died after he was struck by a driver in St. Paul last week, the police department said Tuesday.

Officers responded at about 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 22 to a report of a crash on Warner Road near U.S. 61.

St. Paul Fire Department medics took James Moo, 26, to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, said Sgt. Toy Vixayvong, a police spokesman. James Moo, of St. Paul, died the next day.

The driver stayed at the scene, was cooperative with officers and showed no signs of impairment, according to Vixayvong. The crash is under investigation.

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A family friend, Rose Say, remembered him as “a source of kindness, laughter, and support to everyone who knew him. His presence could light up a room, and their compassion left a lasting mark on our lives.”

She wrote in a GoFundMe (gofund.me/ad2d4b656) for his family’s funeral expenses and medical bills that “James was someone who always showed up for others. He was a brother, uncle and son. … Losing him has left an unimaginable hole in our hearts and in the lives of their family and friends.”

Paid leave applications will open Wednesday for eligible Minnesota workers and families for leaves beginning in the new year, according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

The early launch — a day ahead of time — will allow participants to “get a jumpstart on applying for this new benefit program,” according to a statement from DEED. “It comes after more than two and a half years of program design, construction and testing to ensure an effective, functional launch.”

Beginning on Thursday, Jan. 1, Minnesotans can take paid leave in order to care for themselves or loved ones. The program is a statewide paid family and medical leave option that allows those eligible to be paid and receive job-protected time off for events like a child’s birth or health care needs. It was passed by the Legislature in 2023.

While actual paid leave can’t begin until Jan. 1, filling out applications ahead of time will allow workers and their employers to plan for the leave period. Earlier this month, the paid leave program opened applications for those who had a new a child in 2025. More than 7,000 Minnesotans have applied already for leave to begin in 2026, according to DEED.

Initially, anywhere between 12,000 to 15,000 people are expected to use the new benefit, according to an actuarial analysis from 2024

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How to apply

Minnesota workers may apply for paid leave on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Go to paidleave.mn.gov to apply and to learn more about eligibility and benefits.

To call the paid leave contact center dial (651) 556-7777 or (844) 556-0444 (toll-free) from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. It will be closed during state holidays, including New Year’s Day.

BOSTON — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.

Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed she had terminal cancer in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker. A family statement disclosing her death was released Tuesday on social media by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family’s statement said. It did not disclose a cause of death or say where she died.

FILE – Caroline Kennedy, ambassador of the United States to Australia, left, arrives with her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, center left, and her children, Tatiana Schlossberg, center right, and Jack Schlossberg, right, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, before the presentation ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Schlossberg was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024 at 34. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people.

In the essay, “A Battle With My Blood,” Schlossberg recounted going through rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants and participating in clinical trials. During the most recent trial, she wrote, her doctor told her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe.”

Schlossberg also criticized policies pushed by her mother’s cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the essay, saying policies he backed could hurt cancer patients like her. Her mother had urged senators to reject his confirmation.

“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,” the essay reads.

Schlossberg had worked as a reporter covering climate change and the environment for The New York Times’ Science section. Her 2019 book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have” won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award in 2020.

Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker essay that she feared her daughter and son wouldn’t remember her. She felt cheated and sad that she wouldn’t get to keep living “the wonderful life” she had with her husband, George Moran. While her parents and siblings, Rose and Jack, tried to hide their pain from her, she said she felt it every day.

“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she said. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”

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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping the rate unchanged, minutes released Tuesday show, underscoring the divisions and uncertainty permeating the central bank.

At their December 9-10 meeting Fed officials agreed to cut their key interest rate by a quarter point for the third time this year, to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Yet the move was approved by a 9-3 vote, an unusual level of dissent for a committee that typically works by consensus. Two Fed officials supported keeping the rate unchanged, while one wanted a larger, half-point reduction.

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The minutes underscored the deep split on the 19-member policymaking committee over what constitutes the biggest threat to the economy: weak hiring or stubbornly-elevated inflation. If a sluggish job market is the biggest threat, then the Fed would typically cut rates more. But if still-high inflation is the bigger problem, then the Fed would keep rates elevated, or even raise them. Just 12 of the 19 members vote on rate decisions, though all participate in discussions.

The minutes showed that even some Fed officials who supported the rate cut did so with reservations. Some Fed officials wanted to wait for more economic data before making any further moves, the minutes said. Key economic data on jobs, inflation, and growth were delayed by the six-week government shutdown, leaving Fed officials with only outdated information at their meeting earlier this month.

When the Fed reduces its key rate, over time it can lower borrowing costs for homes, cars, and credit cards, though market forces also affect those rates.