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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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What's the carbon 'hoofprint' of the American beef industry?
Researcher Jennifer Schmitt explains the greenhouse gas emissions of the American beef industry and what is being done to help combat it.
Report: Minnesotan, 5 other U.S. soldiers were killed in shipping container-style building
Pentagon Reporter Konstantin Toropin with the Associated Press has been covering the deaths of six U.S. soldiers in Kuwait. He spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters.
Greater Minnesota schools felt the fear as ICE presence surged
While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
‘Winning hearts and minds’: How protest signs shaped the anti-ICE movement in Minnesota
Minnesota has seen an explosion of art made in response to ICE’s presence. Perhaps more than any other art form, artists and designers have made protest posters and signs en masse. “There’s never been a viable movement for social change without the arts as central to the movement,” one art historian says.
MN Shortlist, April 27 – March 5: Winter pushback, origin stories and returns
This week’s lineup leans into revision and return — classic scores revisited, origin myths recast, intimate confessionals shared in big rooms — each offering its own way to reconsider the stories we inherit.
The impact of climate change on Earth's polar regions
Minnesota Arctic explorer Will Steger describes changes to the Arctic regions and its residents over the past several decades.