With a jury in place, opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape in the alley behind her home.

Mohamed Noor, 33, who is Somali American, is charged with murder and manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual Australian-American citizen who was shot when she approached his squad car.

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“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and a dozen other prominent parents have agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scam that ensnared wealthy families and athletic coaches at some of the nation’s most selective universities, federal authorities said Monday.

The actress and the other parents were charged last month in the scheme, which authorities say involved rigging standardized test scores and bribing coaches at such prestigious schools as Yale and Georgetown.

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Texas is set to welcome a burst of butterflies this summer when 300 million monarchs take to the skies. It’s a dramatic uptick in numbers from last year but scientists warn that the monarch, whose numbers have been dwindling in recent years, is not out of danger yet.

After several years of declining monarch numbers, the population appears to have swelled by as much as 144% according to Craig Wilson, director of the USDA Future Scientists Program and Texas A&M research associate. “Figures show the highest number of hectares covered since at least 2006,” Wilson told Texas A&M Today. “That’s a really positive sign, especially since their numbers have been down in recent years.”

Read more at Lonely Planet.

Arthritis sufferers can stave off disability with less than half of the weekly recommended exercise, a new study has shown.

Even a brisk, short walk of less than 10 minutes a day is enough to keep older adults on their feet, reducing the risk of becoming disabled by 85 per cent.

Read more at Telegraph.

Governments are always telling us to eat less and exercise more to be healthier, but this presents an obvious problem. Being active is liable to make you hungrier, so there's a risk you end up eating extra to compensate, and putting on more weight than if you'd never got off the sofa in the first place.

Dieticians dream of the day when they can design diets for people where they are more active but don't get hungry in the process.

Read more at Science Alert.

In the not too distant future, you could walk into the international terminal of almost any US airport and board a plane without showing anyone your passport.

At the check-in counter, you'd pose in front of a camera that scans your face and sends your image to a remote system that matches it to a stored copy of your passport photo. You'd have your photo taken again at the security line, and again at the gate. If everything still matched up, you'd be on board, quietly warring with your seat mate over the armrest.

Read more at Cnet.

New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland has a financial acumen as strong as his game on the football field.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School, Copeland interned at the investment bank UBS for two summers during college and worked remotely for the Wall Street firm Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers during the 2017 NFL off-season, according to ESPN.

Read more at Money.

There are numerous challenges a small business must overcome to remain operational and thrive, from staffing concerns to developing a viable product and more. Many such obstacles may seem impossible to surmount, especially if they appear out of the blue and you are completely unequipped to deal with them.

However, that does not necessarily spell doom and gloom for your business, as some hurdles can turn out to be blessings in disguise. These six entrepreneurs share some of the biggest challenging situations they have faced and how they were able to find the positives in them to protect their businesses and drive future growth.

Read more at Inc.

If you're in the market for a new car, but don't have a trunkful of cash, there are plenty of options at every price point. Yahoo Finance partnered with Autoblog to give you the best of the best cars under $16k.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

If your version of spring cleaning includes selling your entire house completely (hey, no judgment if you want to start fresh), you're in luck — Zillow has released a new study that explains where you'll get the best bang for your buck in terms of prepping your house for sale.

While it'd be lovely to simply leave your house as is when you put it on the market, the reality is that you need to invest in a renovation or two in order to maximize your home's value. Actually, according to Zillow, most people complete 2.2 renovation projects on average when selling their house. But they also note that the key to maximizing ROI is to follow four simple rules.

Read more at Hunker.