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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

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Here's how to keep your packages safe in an age of 'porch pirates'

Here's how to keep your packages safe in an age of 'porch pirates'

With more consumers shopping online and then getting their orders delivered home, there's more opportunity for thieves to simply snatch packages left outside. Retailers, delivery and tech firms are helping consumers fight back.
by Martin Moylan

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Best British TV ads return to Walker for 30th year

Best British TV ads return to Walker for 30th year

Some of the commercials are hard to explain, as is the fascination they hold for Minnesota audiences.
by Euan Kerr

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Almost 300 sex assaults reported on MN campuses in 2015

Almost 300 sex assaults reported on MN campuses in 2015

The state issued its first-ever data report on campus sexual assault on Thursday.
by Peter Cox

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Minnesota GOP hopes to keep Trump voters in the tent

Minnesota GOP hopes to keep Trump voters in the tent

Republicans are riding high after big wins by state legislative candidates and President-elect Donald Trump's surprising strength in Minnesota. Party leaders are working to make sure those Trump-inspired voters stick around.
by Tim Pugmire

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Minnesota firefighter helps battle Tennessee wildfires

Minnesota firefighter helps battle Tennessee wildfires

Firefighter Brian Pisarek has been in Knoxville, Tennessee now for two-weeks helping local firefighters battle what are being called the worst wildfires in that state in a century.
by MPR News Staff

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Wanted: Workers to fill Rochester's growing labor shortage

Wanted: Workers to fill Rochester's growing labor shortage

Rochester-area businesses are competing now for skilled trade and service workers and must find 30,000 more in the next 20 years. One observer says Rochester will need to attract workers by essentially outbidding other cities.
by Catharine Richert

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Supremes hit was a hit for others too

Today's Morning Edition music starts with the first notes in the song that was number one on the Billboard pop chart 50 years ago today.
by MPR News Staff

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Dustup over Civil War art leads to battle of words at Capitol

Dustup over Civil War art leads to battle of words at Capitol

Gov. Mark Dayton stormed out of a meeting Tuesday after accusing Republicans of distorting his position on Civil War paintings in the newly renovated Minnesota Capitol.
by Tim Pugmire

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Obscure party funds become Minnesota campaign cash magnets

Obscure party funds become Minnesota campaign cash magnets

Lobbyists have channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years through the local political units of some of Minnesota's most powerful state lawmakers. It's big money that flies under the public radar.
by Brian Bakst

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