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Jamar Clark protesters march to downtown Minneapolis

Jamar Clark protesters march to downtown Minneapolis

"If we don't get justice for Jamar Clark, if those tapes aren't released, if we don't get an independent prosecutor, if we don't get no grand jury, then our 'or else' is we're going back to the Mall of America," said Black Lives Matter organizer Michael McDowell.
by Peter Cox

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For teen-driven Minnesota bakery, expansion is icing on the cake

For teen-driven Minnesota bakery, expansion is icing on the cake

Cookie Cart began when a nun wanted to offer north Minneapolis youth an alternative to violence and drugs. The nonprofit bakery that gives kids real world experience plans a new site in St. Paul.
by Aaron Bolton

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Should the NSA phone tracking program be reinstated?

At Tuesday night’s GOP debate, [Marco] Rubio argued that the metadata program was 'a valuable tool we no longer have at our disposal'
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Should the Internet be regulated like other public utilities?

The FCC's latest attempt to defend net neutrality has been challenged in court by telecom and cable companies. Should Internet service be treated similarly to landline telephone service?
by Peter Diamond

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Mpls. school board puts superintendent contract negotiations on hold

Mpls. school board puts superintendent contract negotiations on hold

Board officials had chosen Sergio Paez last week, shortly before a Boston disability advocacy group released a report about student abuse in Paez's former district in Holyoke, Mass.
by Riham Feshir

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Is self-radicalization a threat to the U.S?

Today we ask whether the effects of social media have the potential to self-radicalize potential extremists.
by Peter Diamond

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Why do women get paid less?

Today we ask Lenora Lapidus, the women's rights project director for the ACLU, about the gender wage gap.
by Peter Diamond

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Chief Harteau: Mpls. feeling the 'Ferguson Effect'

Chief Harteau: Mpls. feeling the 'Ferguson Effect'

Law enforcement officials say they believe police across the country may be acting more cautiously and enforcing the law less stringently in the wake of questions raised by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri last year.

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