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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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'Baba, when are you coming?' For immigrant families in limbo, the waiting becomes indefinite
Immigrants, refugees and their families in Minnesota and abroad have been scrambling since Friday to navigate the deep uncertainty that has taken hold in their lives, as families desperate to reunite sort through the questions and the chaos.
MN lawyers gather to denounce immigration policy
Attorneys describe the pain felt by the people most directly affected by President Trump's orders.
Debate over copper mining near Boundary Waters heats up again
"Copper kills jobs," Steve Piragis, owner of Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, told the crowd in Duluth. "In Ely, we have hundreds of people who are employed in the business of fresh water, clean water, that brings people to us."
Appetites: Surly winterizes Swedish summer party
Kraftskivan is normally a traditional Scandinavian party that takes place outdoors in the balmy summer weather. Not at Surly.
Walz: Customs officials refused to discuss travel ban
When U.S. Rep. Tim Walz tried getting details on President Trump's recent executive order, customs officials wouldn't talk.
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.