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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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Keep kids safe near water? Here's how
Water safety experts are urging Twin Cities families to stay safe this summer following the recent drowning death of a child along with reports of several near-drownings of children.
Filing deadline drama: Ellison, Omar moves scramble Minnesota politics
Attorney General Lori Swanson's leap into the governor's race Monday set off a chain reaction Tuesday of state and local politicians rushing to seek new offices before today's 5 p.m. filing deadline. Here's the latest.
Q&A: Law professor sheds light on Twin Cities archdiocese bankruptcy settlement
Jonathan Lipson, a professor of law at Temple University in Philadelphia with expertise in diocesan bankruptcies, spoke with us about what to expect as the Twin Cities archdiocese settlement process moves forward.
Juxtaposition Arts has designs on a bigger, bolder future
The north Minneapolis nonprofit is embarking on a major expansion of its offerings, which it hopes will allow its students to move from designing products to building them, too.
Twin Cities archdiocese, sex abuse victims OK $210M settlement plan
The agreement with 450 clergy abuse survivors is the largest bankruptcy settlement of its kind in the country between Catholic church leaders and abuse victims. Archdiocese and parish insurers will pay about $170 million of the total.
Your guide to the Republican and Democratic state conventions
Both of Minnesota's major political parties hold their state conventions this week. Democrats meet in Rochester as the Republicans meet in Duluth. Here's what you need to know.
Meet the Minnesota kids at the National Spelling Bee, and the words that took them down
There is nothing quite so simultaneously sweet, inspiring and heartbreaking as the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year seven Minnesota students made it to the competition. None of them made it to the final round.
Paulsen pressed on guns, taxes, Trump during town hall forums
Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen, who's been accused of avoiding constituents, held three town hall meetings Wednesday. He called the one in Hamel a success, although most who spoke were there to criticize him.