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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.

Appetites | Climate Cast

China tariffs starting to bite, but how hard not yet clear
Minnesota retailers are girding for higher supply costs as a new round of tariffs make Chinese-made consumer goods more expensive. But there's little certainty about the extent to which those costs will translate to higher prices for shoppers.
Appetites: Pumpkin spice is not always nice
Love it or hate it, pumpkin spice season is here. Snack enthusiast Ben Passer joins the show to talk pumpkin-flavor products.
Mother of man killed by Hastings police wants answers
"There's non-lethal ways of dealing with someone who's not in their right mind," said Tanya Johnson. "We're not supposed to be killing these people, we're supposed to be helping them."
When kids come to see 'Hamilton,' it's noisy downtown
High school students get a chance to see the hit musical, and a few of them take a turn on stage.
In a randomized clinical trial, researchers in Finland found around 60 percent of people with appendicitis could be treated with antibiotic therapy, rather than surgery.
Report: Nitrate in drinking water a costly problem for small, rural cities
A new report from the Environmental Working Group says nitrate pollution is hitting small, rural communities hardest, and they're the ones least able to afford the cost of treatment.
Relatively unknown Wardlow targets Ellison in attorney general race
Most of the attention in Minnesota's attorney general race has been on Democrat Keith Ellison. Republican Doug Wardlow is largely unknown to voters.
Governor candidates differ on opioids, marijuana
Minnesota's two contenders for governor split Friday in their approaches to tackling the opioid overdose crisis and to expanding the availability of legal marijuana.
The changing outdoors under a warming climate
It's an outdoorsy Climate Cast this week -- fall colors, national parks and a hunter's story.