MPR News Update PM Edition: Frey wins Minneapolis mayoral race; Carter wins St. Paul mayoral race

Minneapolis City Council member Jacob Frey emerged Wednesday from a crowded field of contenders as the winner of Tuesday's mayoral election, a contest in which the city's ranked-choice voting system added to the drama. | St. Paul picks Carter for mayor

Minneapolis voters chose two transgender candidates to the council: Andrea Jenkins and Phillipe Cunningham. They are the first out transgender candidates elected to a major American city council. Cunningham defeated City Council president Barb Johnson.

Some First Amendment advocates joined a suit against the president for blocking people from his Twitter account -- and they are making a novel argument about the right to communicate in a digital age.

When a shooter started spraying a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, 30-year-old Joann Ward "threw her body over the little ones."