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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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MPR News regular medical analyst Dr. Jon Hallberg explains what "incremental medicine" is and if it can be life-saving, as a recent article making its way through medical circles has claimed.
Former official on refugees, migration talks Trump's orders
For more insight and analysis of President Trump's order on immigration and refugees, Eric P. Schwartz visited the MPR News studios to share his expertise.
One wheely unusual winter commute: Man unicycles through Minneapolis
Dan Hansen has been riding to work on his unicycle almost every day for the last three and a half years. "I don't think there's any poor weather to ride a unicycle in," he said.
Racial hatred or self-defense? Scarsella case goes to jury
There's no question Allen Scarsella shot five black men in north Minneapolis who had been protesting the police killing of Jamar Clark. But was it a crime? A jury began deliberating on Tuesday.
MN School of Business, Globe U. fraud leaves broken dreams, big debt
"Imagine everything that you've worked for three to five years, and one day somebody said all that work was for nothing," said criminal justice student Perry Schramm.
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is a proposing a $125 million technology upgrade for state government, including tighter cybersecurity protections.
From the archives: The joys of ice fishing
For Jay King and his wife, ice fishing is a game of cribbage, a thermos of coffee, and a long afternoon in their cabin-sized fish house on Lake Mille Lacs.
Minnesota faith leaders denounce Trump's immigration ban
Faith leaders said the ban, which temporarily bars travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and halts refugee admissions for 120 days, violates the core principles of their religions.
Gov. Mark Dayton's nearly $45.8 billion budget builds on spending increases already in state law and uses almost all of the projected $1.4 billion surplus.
Trump's rural Minnesota backers OK with immigration ban
While critics continue to blast the president for his executive order placing restrictions on immigration, many of his supporters in greater Minnesota generally agree with the president's move.