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All Things Considered with Clay Masters is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

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Montana youths win case against the state for climate change harms
A legal victory this week for 16 young people who sued the state of Montana over their right to a “clean and healthful environment”, as laid out in the state constitution. So, what’s next?
Fargo body cam footage shows harrowing moments as gunman fires on police
Authorities in Fargo on Thursday released body camera footage of Mohamad Barakat fatally shooting a police officer before another officer killed Barakat on July 14.
Minneapolis approves measure to boost pay for Uber, Lyft drivers
The ordinance passed 7-5 despite rideshare companies’ threats they’ll stop operating in the city if the provision goes forward. 
Feds charge another 14 people in Minneapolis gang crackdown
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against an additional 14 alleged members of Minneapolis street gangs. The new criminal complaints follow similar charges brought in May against 45 suspected members of the Highs and Bloods.
Walz says tax rebates will help with back to school shopping
The governor promoted rebates arriving in Minnesotan’s bank accounts this week as a back-to-school stimulus. And he responded to complaints from Republican leaders that the $260 rebates were much less than the DFLer promised last year on the campaign trail.
Long before latest push to bring high tech to north Minneapolis there was Microtron
There’s a new push to bring high tech businesses and jobs to north Minneapolis. However, 35 years ago a pioneering Black business owner named Beck Horton — and his now defunct company Microtron — did just that.
'It is a year of remembrance': The legacy of cluster bombs in Laos fifty years on
Today marks exactly fifty years since the last cluster bombs were dropped in Laos — the most bombed country of any in the world. Fifty years on, some of these bombs still remain in the soil. Now, one organization is working to make sure history does not get repeated.
Arts Briefs: Apparently cats can be trained
In this week’s Arts Briefs: Hmong culture and opera, watery fun at Lake Superior and performing cats. Also, in Absolute Bleeding Edge: Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
Trans pro disc golfer suing sport's top league for discrimination in Minnesota
A professional disc golfer who is a trans woman is suing the sport’s top organization over its gender-based rules for competition. A Minnesota judge cleared the way for Natalie Ryan to play in the state earlier this year.