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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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How prepared is Minnesota for Ebola?
Public health officials say they are ready to treat and contain the disease if an infected patient arrives.
Hallberg's Picture of Health: The toll of stress
Host Tom Crann and Dr. Jon Hallberg discuss how stress, in not just large but small doses, adds up to bad health outcomes. The conversation was triggered by a new study on stress by Oregon State University's "Center For Healthy Aging."
Death penalty politics enters the governor's race
The death penalty hasn't surfaced as an issue in the race for governor in Minnesota. But it's another area on which the candidates disagree.
Proposed transgender high school athlete policy stirs controversy
The State High School League wants to give transgender students a chance to compete in sports while protecting their privacy. The Minnesota Child Protection League bought a full-page ad in the Star Tribune to object.
Sonja Parks is a one-woman community in 'Seedfolks'
In 'Seedfolks,' Sonja Parks portrays 14 different characters who live near a vacant Cleveland lot. Their stories are of loss and hardship.
Terrorists talk nation-building, not death, to recruit Twin Cities youth
Al-Shabab once lured some in the Twin Cities with talk of rebuilding Somalia. ISIS recruiters now are using slick social media tactics to lure youth to a dream of an Islamic State.
Liberians in Minnesota come together to fight Ebola with money, information
Nearly 3,000 people in West Africa have died from the Ebola virus this year, about half in Liberia. That's brought the suffering to Minnesota's large Liberian enclave.
Andy Skoogman, executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, spoke with Tom Crann about the use of military equipment by law enforcement in Minnesota.
MPR News' Tom Crann spoke with political analysts Maureen Shaver and Todd Rapp to discuss political ads and key seats.